States with biggest decrease in internet speeds since the pandemic: SEE: COVID-19 workplace policy (TechRepublic Premium) Big decreases Missouri officials were likely motivated to lift the state above its status as in the lower-half of the US, and ranked regarding residents’ access to broadband. Missouri has more than $50 million earmarked for increased broadband access, which is already being built. The project has been delayed and is fraught with political, financial, and environmental (squirrel) issues. Still in the building stage, the KentuckyWired project will build out more than 3,000 miles of fiber internet cables to speed up rural areas. Internet speeds in Alaska–which finished the only all on-land fiber internet network in June 2020–rose by 40%. Speed improvements elsewhere are credited with similar state-sponsored initiatives. WhistleOut speculates the reason for such a dramatic increase in speed is the result of a statewide push by the Wyoming Broadband Council to bring better internet connectivity and speeds to “underserved rural populations.” The 10th largest US state, Wyoming, provided its internet users with higher broadband speeds during the months of the pandemic, and average download speeds increased by 52%. States with biggest increase in internet speeds Mobile malware is on the rise: Know how to protect yourself from a virus or stolen dataĦ easy tips for cleaning up your inbox (TechRepublic Premium) WhistleOut reviewed more than 717,000 internet speed tests and compared the average results per state from the period prior to the US COVID-19 outbreak (mid-January to mid-March 2020) to the period after the pandemic began (mid-March to early July 2020). This may surprise some, given the surge in bandwidth demand from Zoom-use, streaming, gaming and more reliance on the internet speed.Ī new report from WhistleOut explains how the internet speeds changed during the pandemic and offered a map of the US and suggest the boost in speed “could be due to consumers upgrading their internet and testing their new connection, or because some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) increased overall internet speeds in response to the pandemic.
However, the average internet speed in the US increased from 84.9Mbps to 94.6Mbps. Logic may have you believe that with the dramatic increase of use and reliance on the internet during the coronavirus crisis that internet speeds slowed. Image: shironosov, Getty Images/iStockPhoto WhistleOut: How Americans' pandemic-reliance on the internet for work and e-learning put a heavy strain on bandwidth, yet internet speeds increased. 86% of US states increased internet speeds during COVID-19 lockdown
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