Jul
27
2010

Comcast fastest fish in shallow US broadband pond



Who’s the fastest ISP in the US? According to well-known Internet metrics firm Ookla (which runs the Speedtest.net and Pingtest.net websites), it’s Comcast, with an average speed of 16.23Mbps.

In the US, Comcast was followed by Charter and then by Cablevision; indeed, all of the top players are cable companies. Verizon comes in ninth, despite its FiOS deployments, in part due to its DSL lines.

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