Move Over, Cox: New Data Reveals Spectrum as the Fastest Internet Provider - CNET

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What's happening

Each quarter, Ookla compiles the information and insights gathered from millions of lawsuit uses of its Speedtest.net tool.

Why it matters

This is simply a three-month presumption cheque connected the speeds Americans get from their net work providers. As we thin much connected our location broadband connections for enactment and play, we're expanding our request for velocity (and reliability) from our ISPs.

The newest Ookla Speedtest Intelligence report, released this week, has tabbed Spectrum arsenic the fastest fixed broadband provider among apical US net work providers, with Spectrum grabbing the spot from Cox, which held it earlier successful the year. Spectrum clocked successful astatine a median download velocity of 211.66 megabits per 2nd compared with 196.52Mbps for Cox.

These caller findings screen information taken from July done September of 2022. ISPs indispensable beryllium included successful 3% oregon much of Ookla's full trial samples to suffice arsenic a apical supplier successful this report. So far, for 2022, 3 antithetic providers person taken the mantle arsenic the fastest ISP: Verizon finished connected apical to commencement the year, Cox took the rod presumption successful the adjacent round, and present Spectrum has bragging rights.

List of the apical 7 fastest ISPs successful the US

Looking much intimately astatine the numbers for the 3rd 4th of 2022, Spectrum made a important leap from its third-place decorativeness past clip (at 183.74Mbps) to its apical spot here, conscionable shy of 212Mbps. That's the highest summation -- astir 28Mbps -- of immoderate of the providers listed successful the apical seven. AT&T, which really dropped from 5th to sixth place, saw the next-highest growth, moving from 146.64Mbps to 167.32Mbps. Also of note, Optimum made its debut connected the list, ringing successful astatine 5th spot with a median download velocity of 176.03Mbps.

Spectrum besides ranked highest successful presumption of Ookla's Consistency score, which tracks however often a supplier meets the minimum broadband modular (currently 25Mbps download, 3Mbps upload -- which itself is an outdated measurement, but that's a treatment for different time). It met that people conscionable implicit 91% of the time, with Xfinity and Cox arsenic the lone different ISPs to deed 90% oregon above.

Finally, Spectrum did good regionally, too. It was the fastest fixed broadband supplier successful 17 of the 100 astir populated cities successful the state (an summation of six implicit the past period), including Dallas and San Diego. It was besides the fastest ISP successful 11 states: California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

It'll beryllium absorbing to spot if we get different caller champ erstwhile Ookla compiles its adjacent study aft the year's adjacent oregon if Spectrum tin clasp connected to its apical spot.