Broadband in Huntingdonshire

Measured performance is the striking thing here. Ookla speed tests across the district average 271.6 Mbps download. The typical UK urban connection manages around 75 Mbps, so real-world Huntingdonshire users are recording several times that. This is a figure reflecting what people actually buy and use, rather than what the network could in theory deliver.

Availability supports it. Gigabit-capable broadband is recorded in 81.6% of the 4,964 postcodes, and superfast coverage reaches 94.9%, a touch under the national norm of roughly 97 per cent. The below-10 Mbps share stands at 2.3%. Twelve outward codes feed the data, PE7, PE8 and SG19 among them. Put together, the numbers sketch a district where the average user has moved well past superfast, even though a thin band of postcodes at the bottom, about one in forty-three, has yet to reach basic speeds.

The gap between the 271.6 Mbps average test result and the 2.3% of postcodes below 10 Mbps is the widest thing about Huntingdonshire's figures. Most households can buy speed here and evidently do. For the small slow tail, the district average is beside the point entirely. Anyone comparing addresses should weight the postcode-level picture over the headline speed, because both extremes exist within the same twelve outward codes.