Internet Providers in Hickory, NC

Internet Access in Hickory, North Carolina

Hickory has 9 residential Internet providers, or 20 if you include business and mobile operators. Consumers in the area have access to 6 choices for wired broadband like DSL and cable.

Coverage from Viasat Internet and HughesNet, in most cases, will overlap. As residents might expect, the choice between Viasat and HughesNet is common.

Most households in Hickory have more than one Internet providers to them, although the number of options tends to change depending on which neighborhood you're looking at. See the interactive map on this page to explore how competition shifts in different parts of Hickory.

Cable and DSL are the two primary broadband network options within Hickory. They are frequently overlapping and competing with each other. Cable network speed is usually better, but overall performance seen with either Internet technology system are comparable and which is "best" frequently varies from block to block based on the network quality in a given area. Hickory public speed test records suggest that network performance is above-average. Hickory is 14.43 percent higher than the North Carolina aggregated average so far as citywide download speeds.

Broadband coverage insights here and elsewhere on BroadbandNow are calculated from a mix of governmental data and privatized data collected directly from industry sources or via private sources. Averaged statistics about speed and performance averages is sourced via M-Labs. Our in-house market research team has manually sourced pricing and plan details on 349 Internet offerings in the Hickory market to date.