Gonzales County is better served than most rural counties. Fiber already reaches 68.0% 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 Gonzales 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 Gonzales County
Locations covered by each technology, out of 11,453 broadband serviceable locations. An address can be reached by more than one technology, so these add up to more than 100%.
Fiber7,790 · 68%
Cable3,048 · 27%
Licensed fixed wireless10,579 · 92%
Unlicensed fixed wireless0 · 0.0%
DSL over copper0 · 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
11,213
97.9%
Underserved
73
0.6%
Unserved
167
1.5%
What that means if you live here
The USDA classes Gonzales County as a nonmetro county with an urban population of 5,000 to 20,000, adjacent to a metro area (continuum code 6).
Population is around 19,641, which works out to about 1.7 people for every address on the list.
Only 167 locations, 1.5%, are recorded with nothing at 25/3 Mbps or better.
The most widely available technology here is licensed fixed wireless, reaching 10,579 locations (92.4%); next is fiber at 68.0%.
Fiber already reaches 68.0% of the county (7,790 locations), which puts Gonzales County well ahead of most rural America.
10,579 locations are within reach of licensed fixed wireless, 92.4% of the total, and no other technology here reaches further.
16 providers file coverage in Gonzales County: 5 with fiber, 1 with cable, 5 with licensed fixed wireless.
In twelve months fiber went from 7,259 locations to 7,790 here.
Served locations fell 2.32% year on year, usually a filing correction rather than a loss of service.
That is better than the typical Texas county, whose 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 Gonzales 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.