I know in cities like LA, NYC the base speed is like 200M now. How’s the speed in cities in Nebraska, Montana, Mississippi and so on?

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  1. I get about 6MB/sec download and 1MB/sec upload under optimal conditions.

  2. A few dozen miles away from Birmingham AL, the best fixed connection is a 40/5 (bonded) DSL connection. A few years ago, the best was 10/1 at best with sometimes about 10% daily downtime.

    My cell phone can pull >100mbps over cellular networks, from the living room

  3. I’m in an unincorporated community and we have gigabit. 3 years ago I was capped to 30Mbps with the fastest plan. We got about 25 on average. Then Comcast announced they were rolling up with fiber and we were desperate to get away from AT&T and haven’t looked back.

    Google says AT&T and Verizon can apparently get up to 5 and 6Gbps respectively now.

  4. Rural NH can vary from non-existent to better than Boston.

    Cable plans start at 200M down, and there are also some fiber providers that offer symmetric gigabit.

    Outside of those areas it’s either 100M DSL or starlink.

  5. I’m in a little town of 4000 people, I get 226 download and 11.7 upload (just ran speed test) on Comcast for 50 bucks a month. We just got fiber in town from Altafiber(formerly Cincinnati Bell) for 500 download for the same price so when my contract is up we are switching

  6. Rural MN. 20/20 depending on ISP network traffic, was less than 1MB 4 years ago. County is talking about a county owned fiber network but who knows how long that’ll take.

  7. So, I’m going go piggyback on this question with one of my own:

    At what point do we stop pursuing more speed? Like I already have faster home internet than I could possibly need. The ping is just mediocre, but when I can stream 4K and download whole movies in minutes, if not seconds, what more do I want?

    I feel like more effort needs to be made regarding reliability and expansion and less about bottom line up/down speeds.

  8. Highly variable on location.

    I live in a suburb of a non-major city in the midwest, and 1Gb fiber is pretty ubiquitous here.

    To be honest, I doubt I’d move somewhere that didn’t offer those speeds at this point.

  9. Last I knew the spot where I grew up has dial-up, satellite or the guy who set up basically a WAN tower in the backyard of his double wide and started an ISP. Or at least the company that bought him out. WAN guy offered 1.5, 5 or 10mbps nominal service.

    Edit: that’s download, they were all 1mbps up.

  10. It really depends. I’m in rural SC and I ended up getting Starlink and it’s been life changing. Hughesnet and whatever bullshit Spectrum was offering just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Used to get about 2mbs download with Spectrum. With that said, the county (equally rural) next to mine has fiber available for most of it and even Spectrum has good speeds.

  11. I pay 60 1 gigabit fiber up and down.

    I’m….I dunno, 60ish miles outside of NYC, in Connecticut.

  12. I live in a town with less than 10k people and have 1Gbps fiber. 🤷‍♂️

  13. I have gigabit fiber internet just outside Austin proper. We were one of the test sites for AT&T’s fiber system

  14. I feel like this is going to be more correlated with which provider serves a given area than with population

  18. On the edge of the middle of nowhere, I rely on a company that provides line of sight based internet (and I’m literally the furthest customer he can reach). Speed tests tell me I’m getting 15-20 down/3-5 up, but darn it if it’s more reliable than Comcast/Xfinity ever was when I lived in city limits.

  20. Suburbs of a small city in PA– We’ve only got one viable provider, they offer up to 1200Mbps. We’re on the 400 plan. Lowest they offer is 75. Another company will start offering fiber within a year or two, allegedly.

    ~40Mbps on my phone right now, over LTE in a windowless office in an industrial building. 5G is spotty, so I just keep my phone on LTE.

  21. Wisconsin, 150Mb base speed but we upgraded to 400 because we work from home sometimes.

  22. Rural Washington State, little over 10 miles from the closest town. Gig fiber by a partnership between county PUD and a local provider.

  23. Not great. I was on 1 Mbps DSL for several years and recently jumped over to a 50 Mbps fixed wireless service. This speed blows my mind.

  24. I live in a tiny town of about 400 people in Upstate NY. My internet speed tops 200 MB/s download and 10-15 MB/s upload.

  25. Kansas City and the metro area here have gigabit speeds provided by both Google fiber and AT&T fiber.

  26. Small/medium city depending on your perspective, Duluth, MN, 90,000 people plus another 20,000-50,000 in the surrounding area, we have 400 down/100 up. Spectrum is our provider, we share our internet with my brother, but if it was just my wife and I I’d switch to a T-Mobile wireless box, cheaper and plenty fast for streaming video.

  27. I live past the middle of nowhere (you have to drive to nowhere for 4 hours before you get on the road that goes here) and my internet speed is about 1gig down, 300-400mb/s up.

    when I used to live in a major city my net speeds were about 10mb/s down, 1mb/s up. faster speeds were not offered because the ISP had a monopoly on the area. My parents still pay 150 a month for those speeds and they have zero recourse, the ISP basically just tells you to kick rocks if you complain.

    Your net speeds depend very much on what providers are in your area and how good their infrastructure is. I’ve found that unless you live in a *really* small town, most rural areas have similar net speeds to the city, if not even faster speeds depending on the provider.

  28. I’ve got 1gig up/down
    My family farm has around 800down/200 up on Starlink pretty reliably.
    Buddy in Houston has AT&T Fiber 500up/down at his house.

  29. I live in a town of about 5,000 people, about an hour and a half outside of Chicago.

    My internet at my low-income apartment complex varies from 100mbps-1000mbps depending on what you’re willing to pay for.

    I live alone, so the 300mbps is plenty for me. That said, it does seem to be in that ballpark every time I check it.

  30. Not exactly rural, but I live in North Ga well outside of metro Atlanta, and well outside of the city that my address is in. I have 400 Mb cable that is super reliable

  31. I have had 50 Mbps for a long time. I CAN get 100 Mbps now but it’s too expensive and not really necessary for my purposes

  32. It is VERY hit and miss. Where I live outside a small city in Missouri I know people who have fantastic gig fiber service that is cheap and reliable. But there are lots of gaps where there are few or no good options. Where I live there is basically nothing except LTE. A cable provider has service about 500yds away but won’t extend their service footprint. A fixed wireless provider that has a pretty good reputation can’t reach this particularly area because it’s in a valley. AT&T installed fiber along the road but won’t allow residential access – only business class that is like $800/mo. Places served by a coop or city owned utility often also have a good option through that entity but in my case the utility in this immediate area is investor (and foreign at that) owned so all they care about is shareholders which means sticking to their core product – electric and charging the highest possible rates.

    The best I have ever had here is 40mb for about $75 and it’s extremely unreliable. Will sometimes be down for days at a time.

    Edit the upload speed is 1mb. Yes you read that correct ONE 1mb upload.

  33. 75 Mbps is $20/month, other options up to 1200 Mbps for $80/month. Outskirts of town of 110K population.

  34. I live in a small town in alabama and I have 100 down. But someone on the otherside of town may only have 3 down. It’s highly variable even in the same town sometimes.

  36. I don’t know my exact speed, but I have better internet service in rural Vermont than I’ve had in suburban western NY and Kansas City, MO.

  37. I’m currently at 1G symmetrical in an Austin suburb. They just offered us 2G symmetrical, but I would need to upgrade… well everything to actually use that bandwidth (I won’t use that much bandwidth).

  38. My mother lives in rural Kentucky, her options are:

    Windstream

    * 100/10 for $40

    Spectrum

    * 500/25 for $40
    * 1,000/50 for $60

    Those Spectrum prices look pretty good but that is only for 24 months. Those prices will basically triple after that.

    The Windstream package (which is what she has) is price locked for as long as she is with them. All she does is some online shopping and Netflix so this is the one she goes with.

    Her options are really great right now compared to what they used to be. 10 years ago she didn’t have any internet options other than satellite which was expensive and slow.

  39. A small exurb in rural MN. I have symmetric gigabit fiber to the house for $65/month. It’s amazing.

  40. Lived in Nebraska. It was the fastest Internet that I have had. True gigabit.

  41. for 5g at my house is faster then our wifi. wanna watch youtube? just use your mobile hotspot or your cell. We dont’ even have a Netflix. but we do have Disney+ and motortrend

  42. I’m not really near any big city, and mine is like 850Mbs down. It really depends.

  43. In a Montana city with basic-ass Spectrum internet, my main speed runs about 130 mbs, and my upload speed capped out at around 10.

  47. I get about 5mb download speed, which is good enough to stream Netflix but we can’t stream HD on two screens at once. It’s not my favorite situation but in exchange I get all the outdoor activities I want nearby and I don’t have to lock my doors.

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