FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                                 January 14, 2022

 

Contact: 

Jessica Welch

Office of Communications & Public Services

(850) 926-0919

 

 

Crawfordville, Florida – The Wakulla County Board of County Commissioners announces an opportunity for residents to conduct a speed test of their internet connection to help expand the state and local efforts to provide broadband to unserved and underserved areas.

 

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s Office of Broadband has been established to work with local government agencies, businesses, and community organizations to promote effective and widely available internet service throughout the state. This is to include rural counties such as Wakulla County.

 

Part of this effort is to map broadband speeds and availability throughout the state. Wakulla County has an opportunity to participate in the mapping effort by a simple speed test. The speed test entails using your internet connection at your home with any device. By entering your address, it will send a signal between your device and the outside server thus measuring the speed of the signal. Immediately following the speed test, you will receive results.

 

Each speed test completed will help the Office of Broadband determine gaps to help expand the overall broadband infrastructure.

 

Please visit the following web site to participate in the speed test:  https://expressoptimizer1.net/public/index.php?banner=null&entity=Florida&testtype=NDT&recordcounter=393

 

If you would like to view the map that shows all of the tests that have been completed to date, please visit the following link:  https://expressoptimizer.net/projects/Florida/speedtestmap.php.

 

For more information related to this program, please contact the Office of Broadband at Broandband@deo.myflorida.com.