--- title: Internet in Virginia City, NV: Options and Address Check url: https://hdiss.net/service-area/virginia-city/ business: High Desert Internet Services (HDISS) phone: 775-575-9593, 775-391-5660 email: info@hdiss.net mailing_address: Home base: 200 S Virginia St, Suite 760, Reno NV 89501 (dispatch office, not a walk-in store). Mail: Billing Dept., PO Box 11353, Reno NV 89510 hours: Office open 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, seven days a week. Network watched around the clock. type: Fixed wireless internet service provider (homes and small businesses), web hosting, customer email, domain registration service_area: Northern Nevada - Washoe, Lyon, Storey, Churchill and Douglas counties and Carson City; availability is checked address by address (line of sight to a tower) plans: Bronze $50/mo up to 500 Mbps down, up to 200 Mbps up; Silver $75/mo up to 800 down, up to 200 up; Gold $99/mo up to 1 Gig down, up to 200 up; ask about the up to 1 Gig / 1 Gig ultra-low-latency service no_online_purchase: true (check your address or call; existing customers pay at https://www2.fernley.net/hdiss/onlinepay/paymentform.cfm) since: 2002 --- - [Home](https://hdiss.net/) - [Service area](https://hdiss.net/service-area/) - [Storey County](https://hdiss.net/service-area/storey-county/) - Virginia City Service area / Storey County / Virginia City # Internet in Virginia City, NV: what reaches you and how to check your address About a quarter of Virginia City households report satellite and about 18 percent report no internet subscription, while only about 57 percent report a cable, fiber or DSL type subscription (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B28002). High Desert Internet Services sends fixed wireless from a tower to the roof, and on a mountainside the exact roof decides everything. C Street in Virginia City, Storey County, 2025. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0, via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_City,_Nevada_-_2025.jpg). [Photo credits](https://hdiss.net/photo-credits/) How Virginia City gets online - Any internet subscription about 82% - Cable, fiber, DSL (or fixed wireless) about 56% - Satellite about 26% - Phone data plan only about 10% - No internet at home about 18% U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B28002 (internet subscriptions), retrieved 2026-10-02. Households can report more than one type, so the shares do not add to 100. The ACS has no fixed-wireless line: those homes are counted under cable, fiber or DSL, or under other service. The thin mark on each bar is Nevada. ## Terrain and line of sight in Virginia City At about 6,100 feet this is the highest place we list (USGS 3DEP, at the Census point). A mountainside is the hardest and the most rewarding terrain for a tower link. Houses facing the valley below can see a long way, while houses tucked against the slope or behind another hill see nothing. Old stone and brick buildings also matter. Thick masonry walls block radio, so the antenna sits outside, on a roof or pole with a view, and cable runs inside. The technician decides where on site. Virginia City is a mining-era town on the side of Mount Davidson, with streets that climb, buildings that date from the 1800s, and a tourist trade along C Street. It is also a place where homes, shops and saloons all want a connection that the old street plan never anticipated. ## How do Virginia City homes get online today? Of about 336 households, about 57 percent report a cable, fiber or DSL type subscription, about 26 percent satellite and about 10 percent a phone plan only; about 18 percent, roughly 60 households, report no subscription (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B28002, rounded). Nevada is 76.6 percent wired, 7.6 percent satellite and 5.3 percent without a subscription. A place this small carries wide margins, so take the pattern, not the decimals. The median home was built in 1956, about 33 percent of residents are 65 or over, and about 19 percent of workers work from home, against 11.9 percent for Nevada (ACS 2020-2024). Working from home on a hillside with no wire is the case a tower link is meant for. ## What about the tourism businesses? ZIP 89440 has 66 business establishments with 406 employees (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023). Shops, museums and restaurants take card payments and run cameras, and the [card reader and point-of-sale guide](https://hdiss.net/guides/card-readers-and-point-of-sale/) covers what those need from a line. The plan pages say what each speed supports; no response-time promise is published, so ask by phone for anything business-critical. ## Who else reports service on the Comstock? CC Communications, the Churchill County fiber company, says on its site (read 10/15/26) that it is expanding to Virginia City; what that means for a given street is a question for that company. Rango's site lists a Dayton-Virginia City region (read 10/15/26). The FCC's June 2021 Form 477 filing for Storey County lists Net NV and Sky Fiber on fixed wireless, Charter on cable in a handful of blocks, AT&T and the satellite providers. See [CC Communications for Storey County](https://hdiss.net/compare/cc-communications/storey-county/) for its published facts. ## What plans can a Comstock household choose from? Bronze is $50 a month with up to 500 Mbps down, Silver $75 with up to 800, Gold $99 with up to 1 Gig, and every plan publishes up to 200 Mbps up (hdiss.net, read 10/15/26). [Send the address](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/); a person looks at the path from the nearest tower and calls you back. ## Who are the households in Virginia City, by the newest Census tables? For Virginia City the Census median household income is about $114,000, against $78,000 for Nevada (Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, tables B19013, B25034, B08301, B28004 and B28005, pulled October 16, 2026). The work-from-home share is about 19 percent of workers (Nevada 11.9 percent), the group for whom a steady upload matters most. Among people 65 and over, the share in a home with broadband is about 71 percent, by table B28005, with Nevada at 88.1 percent. The Virginia City figures are survey estimates for a small place, so they are rounded and carry wide margins. ### Sources - [api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5](https://api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, Virginia City CDP, Nevada (small place, rounded), B28002/B11001/B25024/B08301/B01001, retrieved 2026-10-02) - [census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/cbp-nonemp-zbp/zbp-api.html](https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/cbp-nonemp-zbp/zbp-api.html) (U.S. Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023, ZIP 89440) - [opendata.fcc.gov/resource/jdr4-3q4p](https://opendata.fcc.gov/resource/jdr4-3q4p) (FCC Form 477, June 2021, Storey County) - [cccomm.net/](https://www.cccomm.net/) (CC Communications, read 10/15/26) - [rango.net/](https://www.rango.net/) (read 10/15/26) - [hdiss.net/services/](https://hdiss.net/internet-plans/) (High Desert plan cards, read 10/15/26) - [api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5](https://api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5) (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, tables B19013, B25034, B08301, B28004, B28005, pulled 2026-10-16) ### Talk to a person - Call [775-575-9593](tel:7755759593) [775-391-5660](tel:7753915660) Open 9-5 every day - Email [info@hdiss.net](mailto:info@hdiss.net) [Check my address](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/#check) ### Virginia City by the numbers - **People:** 644 B01003 - **Households:** 336 B11001 - **Median year built:** 1956 B25035 - **Manufactured homes:** about 15% B25024 - **Work from home:** about 19% B08301 - **Age 65 and over:** about 33% B01001 - **Elevation:** about 6,107 ft USGS 3DEP, Census internal point U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year (Census place: Virginia City CDP, Nevada), retrieved 2026-10-02. Small place: estimates carry wide margins, so figures are rounded and read as about. ### ZIP codes [89440](https://hdiss.net/internet-by-zip/89440/) ### Related - [Internet in Storey County](https://hdiss.net/service-area/storey-county/) - [Internet in ZIP 89440](https://hdiss.net/internet-by-zip/89440/) - [Business internet in Virginia City](https://hdiss.net/business-internet/virginia-city/) - [Buying in Storey County or the Virginia City Highlands: internet questions](https://hdiss.net/guides/buying-in-storey-county-highlands/) - [CC Communications in Storey County: what the records show](https://hdiss.net/compare/cc-communications/storey-county/) - [Internet for home businesses](https://hdiss.net/internet-for/home-businesses/) Local since 2002 Fixed wireless from towers in Northern Nevada. Three plans, no contracts, local support, 4.8 on Google from 36 reviews. [About High Desert](https://hdiss.net/about/) ## The other options, as reported for Storey County | Provider (as reported) | Technology | Max download / upload reported | Census blocks | |---|---|---|---| | Viasat Inc | satellite | 100 / 3 Mbps | 1,061 | | HughesNet | satellite | 25 / 3 Mbps | 1,000 | | VSATSystemsLLC | satellite | 2 / 1.3 Mbps | 1,000 | | NET NV LLC | terrestrial fixed wireless | 1000 / 1000 Mbps | 827 | | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | satellite | 100 / 10 Mbps | 539 | | Preferred Networks, Inc | terrestrial fixed wireless | 25 / 5 Mbps | 339 | | AT&T Nevada | ADSL2/2+ | 18 / 1.5 Mbps | 166 | | Charter Communications Inc | cable DOCSIS 3.1 | 1000 / 35 Mbps | 78 | | Sky Fiber Internet | terrestrial fixed wireless | 100 / 100 Mbps | 76 | | T-Mobile | terrestrial fixed wireless | 25 / 3 Mbps | 52 | | AT&T Nevada | DSL (asymmetric xDSL) | 6 / 0.608 Mbps | 30 | FCC Form 477 fixed broadband deployment data, June 2021 (the last Form 477 release; a historical snapshot of the OTHER providers - High Desert is not in it). Current map: broadbandmap.fcc.gov. "Reported" means the provider said it could serve at least one location in the block; it is not a promise at any address. High Desert Internet Services does not appear under its own name in Form 477. Check any address today on the [FCC National Broadband Map](https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov), then [check it with us](#check). ## Three plans. One price each. [Bronze Package](https://hdiss.net/internet-plans/bronze/) $50 a month Up to 500 Mbps down Up to 200 Mbps up Runs a household: a 4K TV, a video call and a game at the same time, with room left over. [Check my address](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/?plan=bronze#check) [Silver Package](https://hdiss.net/internet-plans/silver/) $75 a month Up to 800 Mbps down Up to 200 Mbps up More headroom: a full house online at once, several 4K TVs, work from home and big downloads. [Check my address](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/?plan=silver#check) [Gold Package](https://hdiss.net/internet-plans/gold/) $99 a month Up to 1 Gig down Up to 200 Mbps up The most headroom we sell: large households, a home office, cameras, backups and everything else at once. [Check my address](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/?plan=gold#check) Every speed is an up-to figure. What you see depends on the path from the tower to your roof, how many people are online and your Wi-Fi router. Each plan has a data transfer limit; ask us for yours at [info@hdiss.net](mailto:info@hdiss.net). Ask about 1 Gig / 1 Gig. Our ultra-low-latency service with upload as fast as download, in some areas. Check your address and tick "Ask about 1 Gig / 1 Gig" and we will tell you if your address can get it. [About the 1 Gig / 1 Gig service](https://hdiss.net/internet-plans/gig-symmetrical/). Prices and speeds as published by High Desert Internet Services (hdiss.net, read 10/15/26). "Runs" lines use the FCC Household Broadband Guide and Broadband Speed Guide (fcc.gov), which the FCC calls rough guidelines; every High Desert plan is above the FCC's highest household band of more than 25 Mbps. Not sure which plan? [Use the plan picker](https://hdiss.net/#picker). We do not list Virginia City by name in our Google service area; it sits inside Storey County, which we work in. The address check tells you for certain. ## Nearby [Storey County Lockwood](https://hdiss.net/service-area/lockwood/) [Storey County McCarran](https://hdiss.net/service-area/mccarran/) [Washoe County Reno](https://hdiss.net/service-area/reno/) [Washoe County Sparks](https://hdiss.net/service-area/sparks/) [Washoe County Sun Valley](https://hdiss.net/service-area/sun-valley/) [Washoe County Spanish Springs](https://hdiss.net/service-area/spanish-springs/) [Washoe County Lemmon Valley](https://hdiss.net/service-area/lemmon-valley/) [Washoe County Golden Valley](https://hdiss.net/service-area/golden-valley/) ## Questions from Virginia City ### Can a stone building hold an antenna? The antenna goes outside, on a roof or pole. The technician chooses the spot and how the cable enters the building. ### Is Virginia City in Storey County? Yes. It is the county seat, and the county's overall satellite share is 22.5 percent of households. ### Why are so many Virginia City households without internet? The Census reports about 18 percent without a subscription and does not say why. Cost, choice and lack of a wire all show up in that number.