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Internet providers measured in Mississippi, ranked by speed
Median real-world speeds for the 5 fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Mississippi, 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 | Sparklight | 147.4 | 29.0 | 40 ms | 250+ |
| 2 | Comcast | 110.3 | 26.1 | 42 ms | 500+ |
| 3 | C Spire | 98.8 | 69.0 | 37 ms | 500+ |
| 4 | AT&T | 71.5 | 34.4 | 44 ms | 500+ |
| 5 | Starlink | 19.9 | 10.6 | 34 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 Mississippi and named rather than ranked: T-Mobile US, Verizon. In Mississippi 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.
Internet in Mississippi: what the data shows
In Mississippi, the median real-world download speed is 102.2 Mbps, 30% below the median published state of 145.6 Mbps, ranking #38 of the 39 states and districts with enough data to publish. That is among the slowest we publish.
Mississippi has the highest latency of any state we publish at 40 ms, and its fastest provider reaches only 147.4 Mbps, the lowest ceiling in the table.
Uploads median 33.2 Mbps and latency 40 ms. That is among the highest latency we publish, which is felt in calls and gaming well before download speed is.
Desktop and mobile tests run at about the same median speed, with mobile making up 31% of tests.
Across the 5 fixed providers with enough connections to rank here, medians run from 147.4 Mbps (Sparklight) down to 19.9 Mbps (Starlink), a 7.4× spread inside one state. Which network reaches an address matters more here than which state the address is in.
The Mississippi sample carries enough tests to name 7 providers, 10 counties and 11 cities and localities.
Figures are medians of 2k+ browser-based tests from 2k+ 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 Mississippi data comes from
10 counties with enough tests to name:
11 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 Mississippi?
The median real-world download speed in Mississippi is 102.2 Mbps, with 33.2 Mbps upload and 40 ms latency, measured from 2k+ browser-based speed tests on SpeedOf.Me.
Where does Mississippi rank among US states?
Mississippi ranks #38 of the 39 states and districts we publish, 30% 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 Mississippi?
Of the fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Mississippi, Sparklight has the highest median real-world download speed at 147.4 Mbps, ahead of Comcast at 110.3 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 Mississippi?
7 providers had enough tests in Mississippi to name: AT&T, C Spire, Comcast, Sparklight, Starlink, T-Mobile US, Verizon. 5 of them carry a ranked median speed on this page: the rest are either a carrier's mobile network in Mississippi 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 Mississippi?
Tests run on phones and tablets, over home Wi-Fi or a cellular connection, are 31% of the Mississippi sample and median 103.9 Mbps. Tests run on desktops and laptops, which are almost always on a fixed line's Wi-Fi, median 102.1 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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