Coos County is better served than most rural counties. Fiber already reaches 79.6% of locations, so the first question is not what to buy but whether fiber has reached your road.
Everything below comes from the FCC's Broadband Data Collection, the filings providers are legally required to make about where they offer service. It describes the county; your own address can differ, and that is exactly why the technology mix matters.
Where Coos County sits in Oregon
Share of addresses with no fixed broadband at 25/3 Mbps
0.0% to 3.6%
3.6% to 10%
10% to 14%
14% to 20%
20% to 26%
26% to 44%
44% and above
not published
This county is outlined. Darker means a larger share of addresses with no fixed broadband. Select any county to open it.
What reaches homes in Coos County
Locations covered by each technology, out of 30,325 broadband serviceable locations. An address can be reached by more than one technology, so these add up to more than 100%.
Fiber24,132 · 80%
Cable24,794 · 82%
Licensed fixed wireless8,996 · 30%
Unlicensed fixed wireless0 · 0.0%
DSL over copper1 · 0.0%
Served, underserved, unserved
The FCC's three categories. "Served" means at least 100/20 Mbps is available; "underserved" means at least 25/3 but below 100/20; "unserved" means below 25/3 or nothing at all.
Category
Locations
Share of county
Served
28,190
93.0%
Underserved
415
1.4%
Unserved
1,720
5.7%
What that means if you live here
The USDA classes Coos County as a nonmetro county with an urban population of 20,000 or more, not adjacent to a metro area (continuum code 5).
Population is around 64,999, which works out to about 2.1 people for every address on the list.
1,720 locations, 5.7% of the county, have nothing that reaches 25/3 Mbps.
The most widely available technology here is cable, reaching 24,794 locations (81.8%); next is fiber at 79.6%.
Fiber already reaches 79.6% of the county (24,132 locations), which puts Coos County well ahead of most rural America.
Cable reaches 81.8% of locations, more than fiber does, and it will be concentrated in the built-up parts of the county.
15 providers file coverage in Coos County: 7 with fiber, 1 with cable, 3 with licensed fixed wireless.
In twelve months fiber went from 20,978 locations to 24,132 here.
Served locations rose 6.99% year on year.
That is better than the typical Oregon county, whose median unserved share is 9.3%.
Fiber is further along here than in most of Oregon, where the median county reaches 42.4%.
What people actually measure in Oregon
Median of real speed tests run on each network during 2024, from M-Lab. This is measured performance, not an advertised plan speed, and not a customer review. The middle-half column shows how consistent a network is: a wide spread means your experience depends heavily on where and when.
Network
Median download
Middle half of tests
Median upload
Latency
Tests
Comcast Cable Communications
120 Mbps
44.0 Mbps to 303 Mbps
16.4 Mbps
17 ms
150,989
Charter Communications
129 Mbps
47.8 Mbps to 299 Mbps
10.7 Mbps
27 ms
39,203
CenturyLink Communications
54.5 Mbps
13.2 Mbps to 229 Mbps
20.1 Mbps
14 ms
37,746
Wholesail networks
140 Mbps
46.0 Mbps to 323 Mbps
96.4 Mbps
13 ms
34,175
Verizon Business
29.5 Mbps
7.5 Mbps to 80.4 Mbps
4.2 Mbps
31 ms
31,321
TDS TELECOM
119 Mbps
45.0 Mbps to 271 Mbps
13.0 Mbps
22 ms
15,833
AT&T Enterprises
47.0 Mbps
19.6 Mbps to 97.8 Mbps
3.3 Mbps
4 ms
7,444
Wave Broadband
93.5 Mbps
36.0 Mbps to 216 Mbps
11.7 Mbps
17 ms
6,233
HUNTER COMMUNICATIONS
144 Mbps
39.8 Mbps to 366 Mbps
94.5 Mbps
18 ms
4,419
Douglas FastNet
94.9 Mbps
39.5 Mbps to 234 Mbps
78.5 Mbps
17 ms
3,196
Cellular networks, measured
The same measurement for the mobile networks behind 5G home internet. These tests come from phones as well as home gateways, so treat them as an indication of network health in the state rather than a home-internet plan speed.
Network
Median download
Middle half of tests
Median upload
Latency
Tests
T-Mobile USA
49.4 Mbps
9.3 Mbps to 135 Mbps
2.1 Mbps
49 ms
36,336
Latency is the number that decides whether video calls and gaming feel right, and it is where satellite differs most from everything else. Measured data is statewide: below county level there are usually too few tests to report an honest number.
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Your realistic options in Coos County
Fiber
Fiber, if it has reached you
The best outcome by a distance: symmetric speed, low latency, no weather sensitivity, no data ceiling in practice.
Best for
Anyone whose address is inside a fiber build. Always check this first.
Watch out
Coverage stops abruptly at the edge of a build. Being a mile from fiber is the same as being fifty.
Fixed wireless
A local fixed-wireless provider
A regional operator beaming service from a tower or ridge to an antenna on your roof. In much of rural America this is the fastest thing available.
Best for
Counties where the FCC data shows large licensed fixed-wireless coverage, which this page tells you
Watch out
Needs line of sight. Quality varies enormously between operators; ask neighbours, not the sales page.
5G home internet
T-Mobile Home Internet
Home internet over T-Mobile’s cellular network. A gateway box you plug in yourself; no truck roll, no dish.
Best for
Rural addresses that still get a usable T-Mobile signal, often near a highway or a town
Watch out
Availability is decided address by address, not by town. Speed varies with how busy the local tower is.