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Internet providers measured in Louisiana, ranked by speed
Median real-world speeds for the 7 fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Louisiana, 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 | Brightspeed | 258.2 | 148.9 | 25 ms | 100+ |
| 2 | Optimum | 249.9 | 26.0 | 31 ms | 100+ |
| 3 | Spectrum | 195.1 | 24.2 | 47 ms | 250+ |
| 4 | AT&T | 177.8 | 95.0 | 36 ms | 1k+ |
| 5 | Cox | 173.8 | 31.0 | 28 ms | 1k+ |
| 6 | Comcast | 115.2 | 26.0 | 37 ms | 500+ |
| 7 | Starlink | 18.2 | 9.9 | 32 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 Louisiana and named rather than ranked: T-Mobile US, Verizon. In Louisiana 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: REV.
Internet in Louisiana: what the data shows
In Louisiana, the median real-world download speed is 137.9 Mbps, 5% below the median published state of 145.6 Mbps, ranking #25 of the 39 states and districts with enough data to publish.
Louisiana has the highest share of tests run on phones and tablets of any state we publish, at 38%.
Uploads median 33.3 Mbps and latency 36 ms.
Mobile tests run about 1.1× faster than desktop, and mobile is 38% of tests.
Across the 7 fixed providers with enough connections to rank here, medians run from 258.2 Mbps (Brightspeed) down to 18.2 Mbps (Starlink), a 14.2× spread inside one state. Which network reaches an address matters more here than which state the address is in.
The Louisiana sample carries enough tests to name 10 providers, 17 parishes and 15 cities and localities. Dallas was its most-used test server, taking 59% of the tests among the five busiest.
Figures are medians of 10k+ 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 Louisiana data comes from
17 parishes with enough tests to name:
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15 cities and localities with enough tests to name:
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Parishes, 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 Louisiana?
The median real-world download speed in Louisiana is 137.9 Mbps, with 33.3 Mbps upload and 36 ms latency, measured from 10k+ browser-based speed tests on SpeedOf.Me.
Where does Louisiana rank among US states?
Louisiana ranks #25 of the 39 states and districts we publish, 5% 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 Louisiana?
Of the fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Louisiana, Brightspeed has the highest median real-world download speed at 258.2 Mbps, ahead of Optimum at 249.9 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 Louisiana?
10 providers had enough tests in Louisiana to name: AT&T, Brightspeed, Comcast, Cox, Optimum, REV, Spectrum, Starlink, T-Mobile US, Verizon. 7 of them carry a ranked median speed on this page: the rest are either a carrier's mobile network in Louisiana 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 Louisiana?
Tests run on phones and tablets, over home Wi-Fi or a cellular connection, are 38% of the Louisiana sample and median 148.2 Mbps. Tests run on desktops and laptops, which are almost always on a fixed line's Wi-Fi, median 132.1 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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