Map shows the states with the slowest and fastest internet speeds and it's not what you'd expect
Internet speeds are something we all have to take into consideration when moving these days with how much of our lives are online, so this map each US state's average speeds will be of interest.
While there are a number of different things that you can do to make your Wi-Fi faster, and new technologies that could hypothetically increase your speeds by over 9000 times, it all still very much depends on where you live unfortunately.
You could have all the money and all the tech in the world, but if you happen to live in a place that doesn't support high-speed internet, then there's very little that you can do.
Thankfully there's now a map that shows each state's average internet speed, so if you're not tied down and simply want the best speeds possible, then you'd maybe want to consider one of the fastest locations.
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The map, created by Newsweek, shows a rather uneven coverage of America, where neighboring states can be at opposite ends of the scale.
Topping the list is Connecticut with an average speed of 119.13 Mbps, and it's shortly followed by New Jersey, Florida, Delaware, and New Hampshire. Looks like the east coast is the place to be!
On the other side of the coin, Alaska (understandably) has the slowest average internet speeds in America, boasting an awful 35.5 Mbps - just under 30% of the speeds you'd get in Connecticut.
Filling out the rest of the internet losers is West Virginia, Montana, Idaho, and New Mexico - all comparatively rural when placed next to the top of the list.
Intriguingly, West Virginia is surrounded by Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and all four double its speeds, so you'd feel pretty hard done by in the middle.
What has shocked many on social media though is the absence of California from the top of the list.
The west coast behemoth is widely considered the tech capital of America, and while it still has a more-than-respectable average speed of 94.45 Mbps, many expected more.
"What's going on with California, home to Silicon Valley!" one user proclaims on a post on the r/MapPorn subreddit, with another theorizing that "Silicon Valley internet is very fast, so it must be other parts of the state lowering the average."
Some are perhaps a little more cynical though, indicating that the lower speeds are due to "jacked up prices and ISP throttling."
Clarification has come from another commenter though, as they explain: "There are a LOT of places in the state of California that are not well connected and their utilities have notoriously bad infrastructure... Heading inland there are huge pockets [of] poor, marginalized people. It is not all Silicon Valley and Hollywood."
That's perhaps the deceptive thing about an 'average' speed for a state as big as California though, and tells the tale of an area that is perhaps mistakenly associated with complete technological revolution.