Brown County is genuinely hard to serve. 12.4% of locations here have no fixed broadband at all, so for a lot of addresses the real choice is satellite or a cellular home-internet gateway, not a wired provider.
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 Brown County sits in Texas
Share of addresses with no fixed broadband at 25/3 Mbps
0.0% to 2.4%
2.4% to 4.2%
4.2% to 6.4%
6.4% to 10%
10% to 15%
15% to 23%
23% 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 Brown County
Locations covered by each technology, out of 19,867 broadband serviceable locations. An address can be reached by more than one technology, so these add up to more than 100%.
Fiber12,252 · 62%
Cable210 · 1.1%
Licensed fixed wireless7,760 · 39%
Unlicensed fixed wireless0 · 0.0%
DSL over copper30 · 0.2%
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
14,944
75.2%
Underserved
2,468
12.4%
Unserved
2,455
12.4%
What that means if you live here
The USDA classes Brown 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 38,192, which works out to about 1.9 people for every address on the list.
2,455 locations, 12.4% of the county, have nothing that reaches 25/3 Mbps.
A further 12.4% of the county sits in the middle: served, but below the 100/20 Mbps mark.
The most widely available technology here is fiber, reaching 12,252 locations (61.7%); next is licensed fixed wireless at 39.1%.
Fiber already reaches 61.7% of the county (12,252 locations), which puts Brown County well ahead of most rural America.
Licensed fixed wireless covers 39.1% of the county. It does not reach as far as fiber does here, but it reaches places fiber does not.
18 providers file coverage in Brown County: 6 with fiber, 1 with cable, 6 with licensed fixed wireless.
In twelve months fiber went from 11,955 locations to 12,252 here.
Served locations fell 12.16% year on year, usually a filing correction rather than a loss of service.
Brown County is harder-served than the typical Texas county, where the median unserved share is 5.4%.
What people actually measure in Texas
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
AT&T Enterprises
147 Mbps
41.0 Mbps to 366 Mbps
88.6 Mbps
9 ms
592,902
Charter Communications
151 Mbps
56.6 Mbps to 315 Mbps
11.4 Mbps
15 ms
516,659
Comcast Cable Communications
134 Mbps
49.6 Mbps to 317 Mbps
17.8 Mbps
13 ms
262,050
Optimum
160 Mbps
57.1 Mbps to 329 Mbps
20.2 Mbps
11 ms
104,321
Frontier Communications of America
191 Mbps
66.9 Mbps to 430 Mbps
124 Mbps
6 ms
100,140
ZSCALER
82.8 Mbps
24.8 Mbps to 197 Mbps
22.4 Mbps
1 ms
51,596
Grande Communications Networks
160 Mbps
53.6 Mbps to 322 Mbps
28.1 Mbps
15 ms
35,597
CABLE ONE
122 Mbps
52.8 Mbps to 306 Mbps
29.7 Mbps
12 ms
19,363
Windstream Communications
36.2 Mbps
11.1 Mbps to 106 Mbps
12.1 Mbps
18 ms
18,148
Fidium
134 Mbps
34.2 Mbps to 360 Mbps
83.7 Mbps
12 ms
16,440
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
43.3 Mbps
8.8 Mbps to 120 Mbps
5.9 Mbps
37 ms
291,657
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 Brown County
Satellite
Starlink
Low-earth-orbit satellite. Latency is low enough for video calls and most gaming, unlike older satellite services.
Best for
Anywhere with a clear view of the sky and no wired option
Watch out
Hardware costs money up front, and heavy tree cover or a north-facing obstruction will cost you throughput