Thinking of moving – StreetStats lets you check the internet speed of the locality first
StreetStats shows performance testing results of internet connections within an area. The StreetStats website will note and chart the connection speeds achieved by users residing on the same street. The performance testing service, StreetStats, from broadband comparison site Top 10 Broadband, collects performance test data from users to build an dynamic Google map. Web users can focus in on their postcode to compare the performance data of their broadband service with the connection speeds their neighbours are receiving. More than 170,000 speed test results have been added so far, and the company behind the scheme hopes to have recorded the speeds of two million subscribers by the end of the year.A survey by Top 10 Broadband found that 4 out of 10 people would not move to a house or locality with a poor broadband service. The survey showed that six out of ten people would be “annoyed and envious” to learn that a neighbour achieved faster internet performance speeds than themselves.