The Best ISPs in the US, Ranked ^8.8%

PCMag - By Eric Griffith - 6/29/2026, 5:35 PM

Halo Effect 13.9% - Recency Bias 9.7% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 8.4%

This summer marks 20 years since we first ranked the fastest ISPs in the pages of PC Magazine. Our initial real-world testing involved more than 10,000 readers downloading a special utility called SurfSpeed. The winner was the fiber-optic ISP Verizon Fios, which had a then-blazing top download speed of 293Kbps (0.293Mbps) across its... more