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Residents in the capital’s slowest street for broadband today told of their frustration as they revealed it can take three days to load up a page on Facebook.

Cowley Road in Brixton was today shamed as the most sluggish street on central London’s information superhighway in a report by price comparison site uSwitch.com.

It found the average download speed of of 1.41megabits per second is almost 50 times slower than the city’s fastest, Bulwer Gardens, Barnet, which recorded a blazing 64.56Mbps average.

Cowley Road residents said video streaming services like Netflix, iPlayer and Youtube are “impossible” to view.

Mother-of-two Siobhan Davies, 32, said: “Broadband around here is an absolute nightmare. I can’t stream anything on my computer or iPad. I tried to load my husband’s Facebook profile last week and it took three days to load. It’s ridiculous.

“It’s like being stuck in the age of dial-up ten years ago. I’ve had a few different Internet Service Providers in the last few years, but it’s all just rubbish.

“I can’t log onto Netflix to watch the latest television shows like House of Cards like everyone else or use BBC iPlayer to stream programmes for my children.”

Julie Kelly, 35, a mother, said: “When you open a webpage none of them load, you just get a circling turning around saying its loading.

“It can take hours to get a Facebook page to load and you can forget about streaming films on Netflix.”

Lucy Baah-Danso, 19, a student at Sacred Heart Sixth Form, in Camberwell, said: “I’m a student, so when I need to work I have to go to the library or around a friend’s house to use the internet.

“It’s always been this way, ever since I was old enough to use technology.

“There’s no point in having a Netflix account, so I can’t watch things like Prison Break or whatever show everyone is talking about. I’m a teenager and I need to know these things.”

Teacher Leanne Foulkes, 38, said: “The laptop is very slow but I assumed it was down to the provider but I change that three times and it made no difference. If you want to download anything from iTunes, you need to set aside a whole evening. It takes that long.”

Accountant Raymond Brown, 45, said: “Broadband speeds are beyond frustrating. If you have a laptop, iPad and Sky connected to the router the speed is terrible. Sometimes watching Youtube videos is so slow, you just watch it buffering. It’s gotten so bad I feel like throwing the laptop out of the window, but that’s perhaps not the best idea.”

Nicholas Solarte, 23, works at Computer Exchange, in Brixton Road, said: “I pay for a package that costs about £30 a month but I can’t stream anything. Twenty per cent of the time it just doesn’t work. You just sit there and watch videos buffering.”

Train driver Abyemang Yaw, 43, of Mansion Close, off Cowley Road, said: “I’ve just connected my phone to the Wifi to get a software update and it’s told me it’s going to take ten hours. I’ve just got to leave my phone until it’s finished.”

The study, based on data gathered via 1,030,865 consumer Internet speed tests conducted between August 2014 to February 2015, reveals the slowest street in the UK for average broadband download speed is Williamson Road in Romney Marsh, Kent at 0.53Mbps, while the fastest was Sandy Lane in Cannock, Staffordshire, on 72.86Mbps.

Ewan Taylor-Gibson, broadband expert at uSwitch.com, said: “On the UK’s slowest street broadband speeds are so sluggish you could fly to the Bahamas and back again in the time it takes to download a film.

“Terrible speeds can isolate people and take their toll on businesses, schools, even house prices. A nationwide rollout of fibre broadband to the furthest and most remote corners of the UK has never been more urgent.”