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Cape Cellular speed in Illinois
Typical speed on Cape in Illinois: 46.7 Mbps down, 14.1 up, 167 ms ping, from 1 test by 1 person in 1 town on Cape's network, newest Oct 24, 2026.
#9 of 9 states by typical download on cape.monster.
That's 57% slower than the typical download across every Cape test on cape.monster (108 Mbps). Typical means the middle: in a town, the middle of all its tests; for a state or all of Cape, the middle of its towns' own middles, so every town counts the same and one busy town can't drown out the rest.
- CRUMBS under 10 Mbps
- NIBBLE 10 to 35 Mbps
- GULP 35 to 90 Mbps
- FEAST 90 to 200 Mbps
- MONSTER MEAL 200 and up Mbps
- NEW not counted yet
The faces and colors follow US industry numbers, not Cape's: under 35 Mbps down is below the FCC's 5G yardstick, about 90 is what the slower big carriers typically get, and 200 and up is around the US typical (Opensignal and Ookla, 2026). Upload and ping are graded the same way.
Every tested town in Illinois
| Town | Typical download | Upload | Ping | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urbana | 46.7 Mbps | 14.1 Mbps | 167 ms | 1 |
Most tested first. Updated every hour.
Side by side
Typical speeds; for ping, shorter is better.
Download
Upload
Ping
Getting faster?
October: 46.7 Mbps down, 14.1 up, 167 ms ping typical. Each new month gets its own column, so you can watch whether Cape gets faster.
October 2026 to October 2027; each month fills in as it happens, from 1 test so far. A month's typical speed is worked out the same way, from that month's tests.
How the tests spread
Half of the 1 test landed between 40 and 45.5 Mbps.
What Cape can handle in Illinois
The share of 1 test fast enough for each.
- 100% Music & scrolling 1+ Mbps down
- 100% HD video 5+ Mbps down
- 100% 4K video 25+ Mbps down
- 0% Huge downloads 100+ Mbps down
- 100% HD video calls 3+ Mbps up
Rush hour
Each column is the typical download in that hour of the day.
By the clock on the tester's phone, from 1 test.
Week by week
Week of Oct 19: 46.7 Mbps down, 14.1 up, 167 ms ping typical. Each new week gets its own column.
Weeks start on Monday; each fills in as it happens, from 1 test so far.
Inside vs outside
- Inside 46.7 Mbps 14.1 up · 167 ms
- Outside ? none yet
- In a car ? none yet
5G vs LTE
- 5G 46.7 Mbps 14.1 up · 167 ms
- LTE ? none yet
Time of day
- Morning ? none yet
- Afternoon ? none yet
- Evening 46.7 Mbps 14.1 up · 167 ms
- Night ? none yet
What these numbers can't tell you
- One test is one moment in one spot. Speed changes with the building you're in, your phone, the time of day and how busy the towers are.
- The town is the one the tester picked. cape.monster never asks for your location, so a test counts where the person said they were.
- For your street, use Cape's own map. Cape's coverage map shows where Cape has service.
- Heavy months can slow down. Cape says that after 50GB of use it may temporarily slow data to 256 kbps.
These are visitors' tests, measured against cape.monster's own test server on Cloudflare's network, not Cape's numbers, for fun and general information only, and they can be wrong (the fine print). Every state: the Cape speed by state table. How the Cape speed test works.
Cape's rules from its own pages, cape.co/coverage and cape.co/faqs, checked October 18, 2026. Speeds from visitors' tests on cape.monster. cape.monster is a free, fan-made site, not affiliated with Cape.