America’s Fastest and Slowest States for Internet Connection

If you live in the Midwest, chances are your internet isn’t as fast as it could be. That’s because the fastest internet speeds in the United States are largely concentrated on the East and West Coasts. The slowest states tend to be clustered in the Midwest and Southwest, while the Southeast tends to fall somewhere in between these two extremes in terms of average connection speed.

The five fastest states

1. South Dakota – 66.02 Mbps download speed
2. Delaware – 63.07 Mbps download speed 3. New Hampshire – 57.90 Mbps download speed 4. Idaho – 54.97Mbps download speed 5 2Vermont-53MBps download speeds)

America has a lot of slow states when it comes to internet connection speeds, though. The five slowest states include: 46. Wyoming (48.81 Mbps download speed) 47 1Wyoming 47.00 43 3Alaska 42 Montana 36 4Rhode Island 34 1Montana (30.14Mbps).​

1Montana only gets 30 Mbps? that is almost double that of Rhode Island! That’s crazy!

The five slowest states

Virginia has some of the slowiest internet speeds in the country. Though the average state speed is about 3.7 mbps, Virginians are lucky to get half that at 1.9 mbps. And unfortunately, many Virginians have lower than even that sluggish 1.9 mbps speed with some rural counties barely having any service at all.

Why is my state so slow?

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How can we improve speeds across the US?

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