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Fixed broadband speeds are getting faster — what’s fastest in your city?

Comcast’s Xfinity is the fastest ISP nationwide, CenturyLink the slowest.

By Rani Molla
Rani Molla is a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade — often in charts — including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.

Fixed broadband speeds are getting faster, thanks to infrastructure upgrades that are allowing internet service providers to offer faster and cheaper packages.

The average U.S. fixed broadband download speed was 64.17 Mbps (15th in the world) in the first half of 2017, while the average upload speed was 22.79 Mbps (24th in the world), according to data released today from internet speed test company Ookla. That’s up from a 54.97 Mbps download speed and an upload speed of 18.88 Mbps last year.

For this report, Ookla measured internet speeds from 111 million tests initiated by 26 million unique users.

Of the ISPs, Comcast’s Xfinity had the fastest national Speed Score — a single metric that factors in low-end, median and top performance for upload and download rates across a carrier’s network — while CenturyLink had the slowest.

Broadband speeds are getting more important as internet connectivity becomes more integral to daily life and to the overall economy. Web giants like Google and Facebook as well as media companies like Netflix and Hulu rely on fast internet speeds to do business.

The Ookla report also looked for the fastest internet providers in 100 U.S. cities.

City’s where fiber internet connections are available, like Google Fiber in Charlotte and Atlanta, have the fastest average download and upload speeds.

City broadband speeds and fastest ISP providers

City, state Average city download speed (Mbps) Average city upload speed (Mbps) Fastest ISP Fastest ISP Speed Score*
City, state Average city download speed (Mbps) Average city upload speed (Mbps) Fastest ISP Fastest ISP Speed Score*
Charlotte, NC 102.53 59.02 Google Fiber 224
Atlanta, GA 94.08 49.61 Google Fiber 220.7
Detroit, MI 60.09 28.23 Rocket Fiber 217.6
Durham, NC 82.83 27.87 AT&T Internet 209.4
San Francisco, CA 104.53 41.8 Sonic 208.5
Austin, TX 115.54 62.36 Google Fiber 199.9
Seattle, WA 92.61 49.57 Wave G 195
Raleigh, NC 87.13 34.59 Google Fiber 192
Kansas City, MO 131.39 117.44 Google Fiber 170.1
Oakland, CA 66.95 21.07 Webpass 149.1
Greensboro, NC 86.53 32.48 North State 139.3
Indianapolis, IN 58.87 18.58 MetroNet 126.5
Miami, FL 66 33.1 Webpass 124.4
Lincoln, NE 53.71 24.15 Allo 117.1
Irvine, CA 89.38 34.66 AT&T Internet 114.3
Winston-Salem, NC 89.12 38.06 AT&T Internet 109.7
New York, NY 83.67 40.55 RCN 101.5
Aurora, CO 85.04 14.99 Xfinity 91.8
Minneapolis, MN 65.51 46.22 US Internet 87.7
Colorado Springs, CO 70.09 10.25 Xfinity 86.9
Washington, DC 78.83 31.91 RCN 84.7
Albuquerque, NM 67.75 9.96 Xfinity 83.1
Plano, TX 69.99 37.04 AT&T Internet 82.5
Nashville, TN 88.91 38.98 AT&T Internet 81.9
Chicago, IL 67.26 22.98 RCN 81.7
Lubbock, TX 92.42 18.77 Suddenlink 81.6
Scottsdale, AZ 85.92 42.49 Cox 80.5
Denver, CO 70.39 22.32 Xfinity 79.7
Houston, TX 71.94 23.81 Suddenlink 78.9
Boston, MA 82.26 22.99 Xfinity 77.8
Irving, TX 76.84 33.33 AT&T Internet 77.8
Garland, TX 72.29 28.57 Spectrum 76.2
Portland, OR 75.41 24.11 Xfinity 76.2
Chesapeake, VA 76.43 45.22 Verizon Fios 75.9
Virginia Beach, VA 72.66 39.15 Verizon Fios 75.6
Anchorage, AK 69.76 13.64 GCI 74.7
North Las Vegas, NV 81.88 14.72 Cox 74.6
Henderson, NV 82.34 15.96 Cox 74.2
Corpus Christi, TX 62.18 11.14 Grande Communications 74.1
Los Angeles, CA 73.29 16.41 Spectrum 73.7
Anaheim, CA 69.68 17.19 Spectrum 73.5
Baltimore, MD 66.68 9.86 Xfinity 73.5
Sacramento, CA 65.63 17.13 Xfinity 73.5
Stockton, CA 67.63 12.4 Xfinity 73.5
San Antonio, TX 82.13 31.49 Spectrum 73.1
Dallas, TX 81.22 39.66 AT&T Internet 72.6
San Jose, CA 78.58 20.85 Xfinity 72.6
Boise, ID 55.31 8.09 Cable ONE 72.5
Jersey City, NJ 84.64 53.46 Xfinity 72.4
St Paul, MN 58.29 22.14 Xfinity 71.7
Arlington, TX 64.57 15.4 Spectrum 71
Chula Vista, CA 74.72 27.92 Cox 71
Philadelphia, PA 78.71 40.78 Xfinity 70.8
Las Vegas, NV 80.32 17.98 Cox 70.7
Orlando, FL 66.96 29.72 Spectrum 70.7
Pittsburgh, PA 68.49 37.85 Xfinity 70.7
Chandler, AZ 78.6 26.8 Cox 70.3
Newark, NJ 73.08 46.79 Verizon Fios 69.9
Phoenix, AZ 69.56 24.43 Cox 69.7
Gilbert, AZ 73.8 15.89 Cox 69.5
Oklahoma City, OK 78.4 19.78 Cox 68.6
Fresno, CA 60.89 10.12 Xfinity 68.3
Honolulu, HI 70.03 17.48 Spectrum 67.8
Richmond, VA 73.87 45 Verizon Fios 67.8
Fremont, CA 66.87 13.55 Xfinity 66.3
Lexington, KY 65.66 14.23 Spectrum 65.8
San Diego, CA 66.97 20.73 Cox 65.1
Louisville, KY 71.03 24.42 Spectrum 65
Mesa, AZ 66 13.74 Cox 64.9
Santa Ana, CA 63.2 12.29 Spectrum 64.6
Bakersfield, CA 66.62 14.83 Spectrum 64.3
San Bernardino, CA 69.96 17.43 Spectrum 63.6
Tucson, AZ 53.31 8.69 Cox 62.3
Glendale, AZ 53.93 12.79 Cox 61.9
Fort Worth, TX 63.2 28.54 Frontier 61.5
Tulsa, OK 62.12 13.85 Cox 61
St. Louis, MO 71.16 27.36 AT&T Internet 60.6
Baton Rouge, LA 61.34 19.11 Cox 60.5
Norfolk, VA 63.27 13.28 Cox 60.4
New Orleans, LA 59.75 12.82 Cox 59.1
Jacksonville, FL 64.81 17.29 AT&T Internet 58.8
Hialeah, FL 52.84 18.6 AT&T Internet 57.7
Tampa, FL 61.24 32.36 Spectrum 57.5
Riverside, CA 53.69 12.67 Spectrum 57.4
Long Beach, CA 55.51 32.55 Spectrum 54.3
Fort Wayne, IN 42.87 25.84 Xfinity 54.1
Omaha, NE 57.82 17.78 Cox 54
Wichita, KS 57.49 11.24 Cox 53.6
Reno, NV 48.37 7.65 Spectrum 53.1
St. Petersburg, FL 62.02 17.33 Spectrum 51.2
Columbus, OH 47.98 9.28 WOW! 46.4
Madison, WI 45.7 10.96 Spectrum 41.1
Cincinnati, OH 42.84 14.58 Spectrum 38.7
Memphis, TN 40.2 12.99 Xfinity 37.4
Laredo, TX 26.89 4.5 Spectrum 35.1
Cleveland, OH 40.16 11.69 Spectrum 35
El Paso, TX 37.83 10.92 Spectrum 34.6
Milwaukee, WI 35.77 9.27 Spectrum 31.9
Toledo, OH 31.85 6.72 Buckeye CableSystem 31
Buffalo, NY 32.56 9.48 Spectrum 30.6
Source: Ookla |  *Speed Score factors in upload and download speeds across a carrier's network.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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