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

Fixed broadband speeds are getting faster, thanks to infrastructure upgrades that are allowing internet service providers to offer faster and cheaper packages. The average US 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 from internet speed test company Ookla. That’s up from a 54.97 Mbps download speed and an upload speed of 18.88 Mbps in 2016. 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.