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Internet providers measured in Tennessee, ranked by speed
Median real-world speeds for the 9 fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Tennessee, 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 | KUB Fiber | 370.8 | 401.1 | 26 ms | 100+ |
| 2 | Twin Lakes | 268.6 | 147.6 | 20 ms | 100+ |
| 3 | EPB | 234.5 | 147.0 | 16 ms | 250+ |
| 4 | United Telephone | 210.0 | 147.6 | 16 ms | 100+ |
| 5 | Spectrum | 207.3 | 24.4 | 38 ms | 1k+ |
| 6 | CDE Lightband | 193.4 | 147.6 | 20 ms | 100+ |
| 7 | Comcast | 151.7 | 40.9 | 32 ms | 2.5k+ |
| 8 | AT&T | 142.0 | 90.5 | 33 ms | 1k+ |
| 9 | Starlink | 17.0 | 11.0 | 37 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 Tennessee and named rather than ranked: T-Mobile US, Verizon. In Tennessee 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: Aeneas, Ben Lomand Connect, BTES, Cumberland Connect, Google Fiber, TDS Telecom.
Internet in Tennessee: what the data shows
In Tennessee, the median real-world download speed is 148.7 Mbps, 2% above the median published state of 145.6 Mbps, ranking #16 of the 39 states and districts with enough data to publish.
Tennessee carries the fastest provider row we publish anywhere: KUB Fiber at 370.8 Mbps, the Knoxville municipal utility's network, with Chattanooga's EPB also ranked. Two publicly owned networks at the top of one state's table.
Uploads median 40.8 Mbps and latency 34 ms.
Desktop and mobile tests run at about the same median speed, with mobile making up 34% of tests.
Across the 9 fixed providers with enough connections to rank here, medians run from 370.8 Mbps (KUB Fiber) down to 17.0 Mbps (Starlink), a 21.8× spread inside one state. Which network reaches an address matters more here than which state the address is in.
The Tennessee sample carries enough tests to name 17 providers, 23 counties and 33 cities and localities. Atlanta was its most-used test server, taking 67% of the tests among the five busiest.
Figures are medians of 10k+ browser-based tests from 10k+ 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 Tennessee data comes from
23 counties with enough tests to name:
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33 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 Tennessee?
The median real-world download speed in Tennessee is 148.7 Mbps, with 40.8 Mbps upload and 34 ms latency, measured from 10k+ browser-based speed tests on SpeedOf.Me.
Where does Tennessee rank among US states?
Tennessee ranks #16 of the 39 states and districts we publish, 2% above 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 Tennessee?
Of the fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Tennessee, KUB Fiber has the highest median real-world download speed at 370.8 Mbps, ahead of Twin Lakes at 268.6 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 Tennessee?
17 providers had enough tests in Tennessee to name: Aeneas, AT&T, Ben Lomand Connect, BTES, CDE Lightband, Comcast, Cumberland Connect, EPB, Google Fiber, KUB Fiber, Spectrum, Starlink, T-Mobile US, TDS Telecom, Twin Lakes, United Telephone, Verizon. 9 of them carry a ranked median speed on this page: the rest are either a carrier's mobile network in Tennessee 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 Tennessee?
Tests run on phones and tablets, over home Wi-Fi or a cellular connection, are 34% of the Tennessee sample and median 149.3 Mbps. Tests run on desktops and laptops, which are almost always on a fixed line's Wi-Fi, median 148.9 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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