Huge gap in internet broadband speeds across East Lindsey revealed

However, for some families in East Lindsey, this year’s frustrations continued with new figures revealing crippling broadband speeds in some neighbourhoods.

Across the local authority, broadband speeds range from a superfast 140.4 megabits (Mbps) per second to a snail-paced 1.6 Mbps, according to data from Uswitch.com

The average broadband speeds were collected in postcode areas with more than 50 addresses through at least one test in the 12 months up to October this year. In total, nearly 400,000 tests were done.

They revealed, in East Lindsey the postcodes with the slowest speeds were:

1) PE234AY, in Halton Holegate, with an average speed of 1.6Mbps

2) LN122JA, in Sutton on Sea, average 1.7Mbps

3) PE235PB, in Halton Holegate, average 3.2Mbps

The postcodes with the fastest speeds were:

1) PE251QR, in Winthorpe, average 140.4Mbps

2) PE252JA, in Scarbrough & Seacroft, average 86Mbps

3) LN122JP, in Sutton on Sea, average 68.8Mbps

Ernest Doku, broadband expert at Uswitch.com, said: “The digital divide that runs through Britain has grown dramatically in the last year, with the fastest street’s broadband more than 5,000 times quicker than the slowest’s.”

He added: “It’s great that more of us are enjoying ultrafast broadband, but we don’t want to see large swathes of the country left behind on shoddy connections that aren’t suitable for modern life.”

Last week, the Government set out a draft strategy to connect 1 million homes and businesses with 1,000 Mbps broadband in the hardest-to-reach areas of the UK.

It is part of a plan to provide 85% of the country with broadband capable of the speed by 2025.

Minister for Digital Infrastructure, Matt Warman, said: “We will begin these procurements rapidly so broadband providers big and small can move quickly to get the job done and level up communities with this much faster, next generation broadband.”