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Internet providers measured in Alabama, ranked by speed
Median real-world speeds for the 6 fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Alabama, fastest first. These are the speeds their customers measured, not advertised plan speeds, and not a statement of who can be bought at a given address.
| # | Provider | Download | Upload | Latency | Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Fiber | 294.7 | 174.7 | 15 ms | 100+ |
| 2 | Spectrum | 190.5 | 24.6 | 35 ms | 1k+ |
| 3 | WOW! | 171.9 | 45.2 | 29 ms | 250+ |
| 4 | AT&T | 166.1 | 111.3 | 34 ms | 1k+ |
| 5 | Comcast | 121.5 | 34.8 | 34 ms | 500+ |
| 6 | Starlink | 14.5 | 10.6 | 31 ms | 100+ |
Starlink is a satellite service: a single browser stream over a link with a long round trip measures well below the figures satellite operators quote, and the latency column shows why.
Measured in Alabama and named rather than ranked: T-Mobile US, Verizon. In Alabama each of these is the operator's mobile network rather than a wired home line, and a browser test cannot tell a phone from a 5G home gateway on the same network. Ranking them beside fibre and cable would compare two different products.
Also measured, with too few connections for a median we would stand behind: Brightspeed, Phenix Cable, Troy Cable.
Internet in Alabama: what the data shows
In Alabama, the median real-world download speed is 143.3 Mbps, 2% below the median published state of 145.6 Mbps, ranking #21 of the 39 states and districts with enough data to publish.
Alabama's leader reaches 294.7 Mbps and the next provider is 104 Mbps behind it, so the state median of 143.3 says little about what any one line does.
Uploads median 30.4 Mbps and latency 35 ms.
Desktop and mobile tests run at about the same median speed, with mobile making up 35% of tests.
Across the 6 fixed providers with enough connections to rank here, medians run from 294.7 Mbps (Google Fiber) down to 14.5 Mbps (Starlink), a 20.3× spread inside one state. Which network reaches an address matters more here than which state the address is in.
The Alabama sample carries enough tests to name 11 providers, 16 counties and 20 cities and localities. Atlanta was its most-used test server, taking 72% of the tests among the five busiest.
Figures are medians of 5k+ browser-based tests from 5k+ distinct connections, first half of 2026. Each connection counts at most three times, third-party sources are capped, and datacenter networks are excluded, so one busy line cannot move a state. That makes these numbers a different series from the national figure on the United States page, and they are not directly comparable to it.
Where the Alabama data comes from
16 counties with enough tests to name:
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20 cities and localities with enough tests to name:
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Counties, cities and localities are named, never numbered, and listed alphabetically. Speeds below state level are part of the licensed dataset.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the average internet speed in Alabama?
The median real-world download speed in Alabama is 143.3 Mbps, with 30.4 Mbps upload and 35 ms latency, measured from 5k+ browser-based speed tests on SpeedOf.Me.
Where does Alabama rank among US states?
Alabama ranks #21 of the 39 states and districts we publish, 2% below the median published state. We publish a state only where at least 2,000 distinct connections back the number, so 12 of the 51 are not listed at all.
Why is this lower than the speed my provider advertises?
An advertised speed is the maximum the line can carry. This is a real-world measurement through a browser to neutral servers on the open internet, which is what a video call, a download or a game actually gets. Wi-Fi, the device and time of day all sit between the two.
Which internet provider is fastest in Alabama?
Of the fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Alabama, Google Fiber has the highest median real-world download speed at 294.7 Mbps, ahead of Spectrum at 190.5 Mbps. That is the median its customers measured here, not an advertised plan speed, and a provider is only as fast as the line that reaches your address.
Which internet providers were measured in Alabama?
11 providers had enough tests in Alabama to name: AT&T, Brightspeed, Comcast, Google Fiber, Phenix Cable, Spectrum, Starlink, T-Mobile US, Troy Cable, Verizon, WOW!. 6 of them carry a ranked median speed on this page: the rest are either a carrier's mobile network in Alabama rather than a wired home line, or below the 100 distinct connections we require before publishing a median. That list is not a market-share estimate or a statement of who can be bought at a given address.
Are speeds on phones lower than on computers in Alabama?
Tests run on phones and tablets, over home Wi-Fi or a cellular connection, are 35% of the Alabama sample and median 143.5 Mbps. Tests run on desktops and laptops, which are almost always on a fixed line's Wi-Fi, median 141.4 Mbps. This is a device comparison, not a comparison of providers.
How current is this data?
It covers first half of 2026 and was last updated on 2026-09-05. The dataset is free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
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