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Cape Cellular speed in Virginia
Typical speed on Cape in Virginia: 111 Mbps down, 8.4 up, 116 ms ping, from 3 tests by 3 people in 3 towns on Cape's network, newest Oct 27, 2026.
#4 of 9 states by typical download on cape.monster.
That's about the same as 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.
Top typical download of its towns: Charlottesville, VA at 434 Mbps.
- 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 Virginia
| Town | Typical download | Upload | Ping | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrisonburg | 84.5 Mbps | 8.4 Mbps | 95 ms | 1 |
| Fairfax | 111 Mbps | 4.0 Mbps | 127 ms | 1 |
| Charlottesville | 434 Mbps | 13.6 Mbps | 116 ms | 1 |
Most tested first. Updated every hour.
Side by side
Typical speeds; for ping, shorter is better.
Download
Upload
Ping
Getting faster?
October: 111 Mbps down, 8.4 up, 116 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 3 tests 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 3 tests landed between 98.6 and 407 Mbps.
What Cape can handle in Virginia
The share of 3 tests fast enough for each.
- 100% Music & scrolling 1+ Mbps down
- 100% HD video 5+ Mbps down
- 100% 4K video 25+ Mbps down
- 67% 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 3 tests.
Week by week
Week of Oct 26: 84.5 Mbps down, 8.4 up, 95 ms ping typical, download 69% slower than the week of Oct 19.
Weeks start on Monday; each fills in as it happens, from 3 tests so far.
Time of day
- Morning ? none yet
- Afternoon 111 Mbps 8.4 up · 116 ms
- Evening ? none yet
- 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.