If you are like most people, finding the best Internet service provider in your area is often a bit of a problem. How fast a speed can you get? How fast a speed do you need?
Recently a new ranking of speeds from all the Internet Service Providers in all 50 states and Washington DC was compiled, and Internet Service in Rhode Island was the winner of the fastest overall speed at 36.69 Mbps. Over 42 million speed tests were analyzed to come up with the average Internet speeds across the US. The report was published through a partnership of Princeton’s PlanetLab, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Google Open Source Research among others. The state with the slowest average speed according to the report was Internet Service in Montana at 10.94 Mbps. According to the results, while it might take less than 30 minutes to download a long Hi Def movie in Rhode Island, it would probably take over an hour and a half in Montana. Maybe not surprisingly, the slowest city in the country was Southerly North Slope Bo, Alaska, with a speed of only 0.28 Mbps!
Of course speeds can vary at different locations throughout a state and Internet speeds are not generally guaranteed so you need to check what Internet packages are available in your zip code.
Out of the top ten fastest speeds all but eight were on the East Coast. Only Washington and Oregon on the West Coast made it to the top ten. After Rhode Island the top average Internet speeds are in Washington, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Oregon, New York, Washington DC and Delaware.
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