It is now possible to get broadband speed of just under 20Mbps on the Moon, making it a better place to watch Netflix without buffering issues than some rural parts of the UK.

MIT and Nasa have broken records with its new broadband transmissions speeds on Earth's satellite, where it is now possible to receive large amounts of data and stream video and audio, according to Wired, bringing to mind three key thoughts:

- You would probably have fewer connectivity issues on the Sea of Tranquility than you would in the Lake District.

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- It is potentially possible to sit on the Moon and watch DMX llama on YouTube.

- If we ever colonise that thing, there shouldn't be any faff getting a wireless installation guy round.

Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: The ten slowest and fastest streets for broadband speed Show all 20 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. In pictures: The ten slowest and fastest streets for broadband speed 1/20 Erw Fawr, Henryd, Conwy, Wales 0.60Mbps 2/20 Wheatley Road, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex 0.60Mbps 3/20 Station Road, Boston, Lincolnshire 0.65Mbps 4/20 Kelvin Grove, North Shields, Tyne and Wear 0.74Mbps 5/20 Maple Crescent, Alveley, Shropshire 0.91Mbps 6/20 Evesham Road, Evesham, Worcestershire 0.92Mbps 7/20 Meadow View, Brampton, Cumbria 0.94Mbps 8/20 Canal Street, Oakthorpe, Leicestershire 0.96Mbps 9/20 Pickleys Lane, Doveridge, Derbyshire 0.99Mbps 10/20 Dereham Road, Norwich, Norfolk 1.03Mbps 11/20 Loundes Road, Dronfield, Derbyshire 57.58Mbps 12/20 Spencer Close, Swindon, Wiltshire 50.60Mbps 13/20 Northam Drive, Ripley, Derbyshire 44.67Mbps 14/20 Byfletts, Basildon, Essex 41.47Mbps 15/20 Mill Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire 38.88Mbps 16/20 Lymington Road, New Milton, Hampshire 35.70Mbps 17/20 Littlewood Lane, Walsall, Staffordshire 35.64Mbps 18/20 Camel Road, London 34.62Mbps 19/20 Pen-Y-Graig Road, Wrexham 31.91Mbps 20/20 Giffins Close, Braintree, Essex 30.33Mbps 1/20 Erw Fawr, Henryd, Conwy, Wales 0.60Mbps 2/20 Wheatley Road, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex 0.60Mbps 3/20 Station Road, Boston, Lincolnshire 0.65Mbps 4/20 Kelvin Grove, North Shields, Tyne and Wear 0.74Mbps 5/20 Maple Crescent, Alveley, Shropshire 0.91Mbps 6/20 Evesham Road, Evesham, Worcestershire 0.92Mbps 7/20 Meadow View, Brampton, Cumbria 0.94Mbps 8/20 Canal Street, Oakthorpe, Leicestershire 0.96Mbps 9/20 Pickleys Lane, Doveridge, Derbyshire 0.99Mbps 10/20 Dereham Road, Norwich, Norfolk 1.03Mbps 11/20 Loundes Road, Dronfield, Derbyshire 57.58Mbps 12/20 Spencer Close, Swindon, Wiltshire 50.60Mbps 13/20 Northam Drive, Ripley, Derbyshire 44.67Mbps 14/20 Byfletts, Basildon, Essex 41.47Mbps 15/20 Mill Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire 38.88Mbps 16/20 Lymington Road, New Milton, Hampshire 35.70Mbps 17/20 Littlewood Lane, Walsall, Staffordshire 35.64Mbps 18/20 Camel Road, London 34.62Mbps 19/20 Pen-Y-Graig Road, Wrexham 31.91Mbps 20/20 Giffins Close, Braintree, Essex 30.33Mbps

A download speed of 19.44Mbps was achieved through a laser-powered communication uplink through RF signals, along with an upload speed of 622mbps – that is 4,800 times faster than the previous record.

With the Moon being 284,633km away from Earth, the connection is dependent on its rotation around our planet (laser telescopes beam the data through columns of air which experience bending effects from the atmosphere) but this is a more satisfactory excuse for patchy Wi-Fi than 'maybe the walls are too thick for the router?'.

"Communicating at high data rates from Earth to the moon with laser beams is challenging because of the 400,000-kilometre distance spreading out the light beam," Mark Stevens of MIT Lincoln Laboratory told Wired. "It's doubly difficult going through the atmosphere, because turbulence can bend light-causing rapid fading or dropouts of the signal at the receiver."