*Source: BBC News (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7003113.stm)*
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Broadband speeds in the UK are much slower than advertised by internet service providers, a study by Computeractive magazine has found.
Some 3,000 readers took part in speed tests and 62% found they routinely got less than half of the top speed advertised by their provider.
It is the latest in a series of questions over the way net firms advertise broadband services.
Regulator Ofcom said it was aware of the issue and was “investigating”.
The figures were gathered from more than 100,000 speed tests that the 3,000 respondents carried out to build up a picture of their average net-browsing speed on ADSL lines.
Statistics about net users in the UK show that half of current broadband users receive ADSL services that should run at speeds between one and four megabits per second (mbps).
The other 50% are on deals offering up to eight mbps but the tests revealed that, in reality, very few achieve the top speeds.
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