Broadband map reveals Suffolk town as the slowest in Britain
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“Halesworth’s Mount Pleasant has topped the list of Britain’s 50 slowest streets for broadband. With an average of 0.128 megabits per second, its residents must wait for 48 hours to finish downloading a film. A two-and-a-half minute song takes an hour and a half to transfer.
Slow broadband is not confined to rural locations. Streets in Glasgow, Southampton and Chislehurst in Greater London all feature in the top 50, according to the price comparison site uSwitch, which compiled the list by speed-testing 1.5m streets between March and August this year, using technology on its own website.”
It may be something that I have eaten but the devil in me thinks “I wonder how much we would all lose should we be forced to return to the 1980s and the lack of any form of internet.” We are so dependent on the net for so much now in rural communities I wonder if any of us could face life without it? There seems little doubt to me that should we be facing the sort of recessionary pressures we feel now without recourse to cheap on line shopping and extensive virtually sourced entertainment we would be drawn into far greater mutuality and local community engagement. This could lead to a richer and more intense form of localism than that planned by the state on a top down basis through the “Localism Bill”. Next time things go off line at home why not test the idea out by having a chat with your neighbour or even perhaps offering them a lift to the shops!!