Internet Providers in Chancellor, SD

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.

Since many houses come pre-wired for one telephone (DSL) company and cable networks don't generally overlap, the majority of Chancellor households have 2 wired broadband options to choose from. 91.36% of Chancellor residents are limited to one or fewer options for which provider to use. Regardless of alternative technologies available, DSL and cable Internet services usually offer the best pricing for home use.

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 165 Chancellor Internet plans from 2014 to the present. There are 32 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 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.