A national broadband speed survey has found that Lincoln is in the top five areas in the UK with the fastest internet connection speeds.
The survey, carried out by Broadband Expert, collected data from more than 48,000 speed tests across the UK, with Lincoln coming fifth.
For the 446 Lincoln users tested in the survey, the average download speed was 7.36 Mbps.
Internet users in Liverpool recorded speeds of 7.72Mbps, making them the fastest in the UK.
The slowest speeds were recorded in Galashiels and Dumfries with just over 2.8Mbps.
Rob Webber, commercial director of Broadband Expert said: "Our results show that there are vast disparities between broadband speeds across the UK, towns and cities only 50 miles apart differ by speeds of 3.12 Mbps or more."
The disparity is particularly great in Lincolnshire highlighted by a recent race when a carrier pigeon, transporting a video file uploaded to a memory card, proved to be faster than the same file being downloaded to a computer in Skegness.
Setting off from a Yorkshire farm, the pigeon covered a total distance of 120km, while only 24% of the 300MB file had uploaded to the internet.
The broadband speed data was collated by independent consumer site Broadband Expert between March and August of this year, a total of 48,408 test results were used.
They definitely didn't survey the good residents of Nocton!!!!!!!!
