Which internet provider is the best in United States?

UpFromWhere ranks United States ISPs by continuous measurements from real home connections: median latency to well-known anchors, jitter and packet loss, with each home's Wi-Fi hop subtracted. Rankings update daily and require at least 5 measured homes per provider.

How is this different from a speedtest?

A speedtest is one measurement at one moment to the nearest test server. This ranking is built from probes running every few minutes, 24/7, from real homes — so a bad evening cannot hide and a lucky minute cannot win.

Internet providers in United States, measured from real homes

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Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company

AS6181

13 ms

10 measured homes · loss 0.0% · jitter 13.0 ms

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Comcast Cable Communications

AS7922

19 ms

5 measured homes · loss 0.2% · jitter 4.7 ms

#ProviderLatency HomesJitterLoss7d

1 Cincinnati Bell Telephone CompanyAS6181 13 ms 10 13.0 ms 0.0% ▲ +3

2 Comcast Cable CommunicationsAS7922 19 ms 5 4.7 ms 0.2% →

Collecting data — 8 more providers measured, below the 5-home threshold needed for ranking.

· MetronetAS30600 14 ms 2/5 77.3 ms 4.0% ▲ +13

· Hiawatha Broadband CommunicationsAS14828 14 ms 1/5 1.6 ms 0.0% ▼ 6

· AT&T EnterprisesAS7018 18 ms 3/5 1.7 ms 0.0% →

· Agri-Valley Services CorporationAS14374 19 ms 2/5 2.5 ms 0.0% →

· Charter CommunicationsAS20115 +1 22 ms 3/5 6.1 ms 1.4% ▼ 1

· Space Exploration Technologies CorporationAS14593 22 ms 3/5 6.7 ms 0.0% ▼ 3

· T-Mobile USAAS21928 30 ms 4/5 42.7 ms 0.3% ▲ +2

· CenturyLink CommunicationsAS209 148 ms 1/5 104.1 ms 0.0% ▲ +25

How to read this: latency is the median round-trip to well-known anchors (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9) measured from each home, minus that home's own Wi-Fi hop. A provider is ranked only with 5+ measured homes. Full details in the methodology.

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