In a comprehensive report recently released by highspeedinternet.com, the Hopkinsville-Clarksville metro area — crossing the state border between Tennessee and Kentucky — currently has the nation’s fastest median download speed of 189 megabytes per second.
Currently, that’s more than 83 megabytes per second faster than the media internet speed of all U.S. metropolitan areas.
This same area also was the 21st most improved metro in the country from 2022-to-2023, experiencing an 86.4% increase in median download speed — up from 101.4 megabytes per second.
Hopkinsville Electric Systems, meanwhile, finds itself as the third-fastest internet provider in the Commonwealth — only behind XFINITY and DUO Broadband. According to metrics, HES maintains an average download speed of 178.3 megabytes per second, an average upload speed of 138.4 megabytes per second, and a better than 85% availability to potential and current customers.
Other important findings:
— The median download speed for U.S. metro areas is 105.8 megabytes per second, and that’s a 38.3% increase from 2022.
— The difference between the fastest and slowest metros: 167.7 megabytes per second.
— More than 120 cities improved their median internet speeds by more than 50% from 2022 over 2023, and more than 10 improved by more than 100%.
— Only four metros in the country had speed percentage growth of zero, or less, meaning more than 270 at least improved in the last year.
Of the more than 270 metro areas, only 160 had media download speeds north of 100 megabytes per second — which is considered a standard speed for downloading large files, streaming of high-definition audio and video along multiple devices, and online gaming services.
