New Report Claims Louisiana Has Among The Slowest Internet Speeds In The US

The Northeast is home to some of the fastest Internet speeds in the country, Louisiana has some of the slowest speeds in the US.

Even the fastest speed in the nation, Virginia’s 13.7 average megabits per second, is just more than half of South Korea’s average 23.6 mbps. The U.S. average is 10.5 mbps. Alaska had the slowest Internet speed at 7.0 mbps.

But nearly every state has shown steady improvement. All but two saw speeds accelerate between the last quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of this year, and even in the case of the laggards the declines were  a modest four percent slowdown in Virginia and two percent in Louisiana. Only Vermont saw slower speeds in the first quarter than a year earlier.

{Washington Post}