Washakie County is better served than most rural counties. Fiber already reaches 85.9% 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 Washakie County sits in Wyoming
Share of addresses with no fixed broadband at 25/3 Mbps
0.0% to 6.9%
6.9% to 10%
10% to 12%
12% to 16%
16% to 18%
18% to 25%
25% 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 Washakie County
Locations covered by each technology, out of 3,873 broadband serviceable locations. An address can be reached by more than one technology, so these add up to more than 100%.
Fiber3,328 · 86%
Cable2,667 · 69%
Licensed fixed wireless2,540 · 66%
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
3,389
87.5%
Underserved
128
3.3%
Unserved
356
9.2%
What that means if you live here
The USDA classes Washakie County as a completely rural county, or one with an urban population under 5,000, not adjacent to any metro area (continuum code 9).
About 7,705 people live across those locations, roughly 2.0 people per serviceable address.
9.2% of addresses here, 356 of them, fall below 25/3 Mbps or have no fixed option at all.
Another 128 can get something, but not the 100/20 Mbps the FCC now treats as the benchmark.
The most widely available technology here is fiber, reaching 3,328 locations (85.9%); next is cable at 68.9%.
Fiber already reaches 85.9% of the county (3,328 locations), which puts Washakie County well ahead of most rural America.
Licensed fixed wireless covers 65.6% of the county. It does not reach as far as fiber does here, but it reaches places fiber does not.
Filings come from 10 providers, of which 3 offer fiber and 3 licensed fixed wireless.
Reported fiber coverage fell by 114 locations over twelve months. That normally means a provider corrected an earlier over-report, not that service was removed.
Served locations fell 2.02% year on year, usually a filing correction rather than a loss of service.
That is better than the typical Wyoming county, whose median unserved share is 12.4%.
Fiber is further along here than in most of Wyoming, where the median county reaches 45.6%.
What people actually measure in Wyoming
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
Charter Communications
110 Mbps
46.7 Mbps to 209 Mbps
10.5 Mbps
53 ms
15,684
Visionary Communications
48.6 Mbps
26.1 Mbps to 94.8 Mbps
11.5 Mbps
13 ms
3,548
All West Communications
106 Mbps
51.5 Mbps to 210 Mbps
29.3 Mbps
37 ms
2,879
CenturyLink Communications
19.7 Mbps
5.6 Mbps to 83.7 Mbps
3.0 Mbps
48 ms
2,411
Silver Star Communications
87.7 Mbps
28.8 Mbps to 148 Mbps
20.3 Mbps
61 ms
1,719
Clarity Telecom
214 Mbps
104 Mbps to 432 Mbps
178 Mbps
14 ms
1,619
TCT West
48.3 Mbps
9.6 Mbps to 93.4 Mbps
28.1 Mbps
23 ms
1,481
Advanced Communications Technology
36.8 Mbps
26.0 Mbps to 77.6 Mbps
11.9 Mbps
55 ms
1,262
Mountain West Technologies
28.6 Mbps
14.8 Mbps to 49.5 Mbps
10.4 Mbps
9 ms
882
Union Wireless
28.4 Mbps
13.3 Mbps to 90.8 Mbps
7.6 Mbps
35 ms
874
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 Washakie 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.