A recent ranking report by HighSpeedInternet.com has ranked the Hopkinsville metro area at the top of the list as the fastest internet in the nation.
According to the student, the median download speed among U.S. metro areas is 105.8 megabytes per second—in the Hopkinsville-Clarksville metro area, that download speed was 189 megabytes per second.
Hopkinsville Electric System can also boast of being the third-fastest internet provider in the Commonwealth, with only XFINITY and DUO Broadband outranking them. HES maintains an average download speed of 178.3 megabytes per second, an average upload speed of 138.4 megabytes per second, and a better than 85 percent availability to potential and current customers.
The Hopkinsville metro was also ranked as the 21st most improved metro in the U.S. for internet speeds.