Internet Service Providers in Chancellor, South Dakota
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Residential Internet Statistics for Chancellor, SD
Wired Internet Providers: | 4 |
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Average Speed Test Result: | 175.18 Mbps |
Top Advertised Speed: | 1,000 Mbps |
No Broadband Access: | 55.91% |
Most Popular Residential Internet Providers in Chancellor, South Dakota
Internet Access in Chancellor, South Dakota
Chancellor features a total of 10 broadband providers offering residential service. If you include business Internet, there are 15 companies available locally, such as Rise Broadband and Vast Broadband.
So far as Internet availability, the average location in Chancellor will have 3-4 providers serving their location, or exactly 3.42 providers in each census block. Still, 87.67 percent of Chancellor residents have one option for Internet service.
The data on this page comes via FCC reports specific to Chancellor. Coverage data is confirmed using privatized databases and direct provider reporting to output more granular results than is available from the FCC directly. Information on pricing and speed of listed Internet plans is sourced thanks to our research team, who gather thousands of plans every year. We've gathered 149 Chancellor Internet plans from 2014 to the present. There are 30 Internet or bundled packages currently active in the area.
Taking a look now at network technology with significant infrastructure already built within the area, we see that the most widespread physical wire broadband connection types are DSL (65.44 percent coverage) and Fixed Wireless (50.19 percent coverage). DSL Internet service is delivered over telephone wires up on utility poles by providers like Vast Broadband that historically provided phone service. DSL is the slowest of all major wired Internet options.
Viasat Internet (formerly Exede) is the most common overall. They offer coverage for near one hundred percent of Chancellor residents. HughesNet, in contrast, has coverage to close to one hundred percent of the population. The fastest speed advertised for Viasat reaches 35 Mbps, while HughesNet offers up to 25 Mbps. In general, anything above 10 Mbps will be sufficient to stream SD videos over WiFi, but becomes problematic when multiple people try to access high-bandwidth applications like video conferencing, cloud apps, and etc. Refer to the availability maps on this page to compare Internet options on a granular level.
- There are 12 internet providers in Chancellor with 10 of those offering residential service
- Chancellor is the 69th most connected city in South Dakota ahead of Hartford, but behind Tea, Harrisburg, Lennox, and Parker.
- The fastest zip code in Chancellor for February 2021 is 57015. (see all below).
Internet Statistics 2021
87.7% of consumers in Chancellor
600 People Only have access to 1 or fewer wired internet providers available at their address.This data is calculated from FCC datasets which providers are legally required to supply twice a year. We further validate this data for accuracy.
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Summary Of Fastest Internet Providers In Chancellor, South Dakota
Provider | Speed | Type | Time To Download 1 GB |
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Vast Broadband | 1,000 Mbps | DSL and Cable | 8s |
Golden West Telecommunications | 100 Mbps | Fiber | 1m 21s |
Rise Broadband | 50 Mbps | Fixed Wireless | 2m 43s |
Viasat Internet (formerly Exede) | 35 Mbps | Satellite | 3m 54s |
CenturyLink | 30 Mbps | DSL | 4m 33s |
HughesNet | 25 Mbps | Satellite | 5m 27s |
Summary of Internet Providers Availability in Chancellor, South Dakota
- Vast Broadband - 65.4% Availability in Chancellor - Speeds up to 1,000 Mbps
- Rise Broadband - 50.2% Availability in Chancellor - Speeds up to 50 Mbps
- Golden West Telecommunications - 10.0% Availability in Chancellor - Speeds up to 100 Mbps
- CenturyLink - 2.8% Availability in Chancellor - Speeds up to 30 Mbps
- Viasat - 100.0% Availability in Chancellor - Speeds up to 35 Mbps
- HughesNet - 100.0% Availability in Chancellor - Speeds up to 25 Mbps
Internet Provider Competition Map For Chancellor

The “Connected” metric is a citywide average based on FCC data showing the density of broadband options at the census block level.
This statistic is drawn from the population in census blocks not served by at least one wired broadband provider.
Fiber coverage data is sourced from FCC Form 477 filings and cross-validated through BroadbandNow with private datasets and direct provider reporting.
Zip-based speed averages are calculated from M-Labs consumer speed tests run by IP addresses in the area.
25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload is the minimum speed for an Internet connection to be classified as “Broadband” by the FCC.