

Optimum, Cox and Xfinity all posted scores of 24 or 25ms, with Spectrum bringing up the rear at 32ms. Latency-wise, the clear winner was Verizon, which posted an average 15ms figure, with AT&T languishing in second at 23ms. Optimum and Xfinity posted 29Mbps and 20Mbps speeds, respectively, while Spectrum and Cox trailed at 11Mbps and 10Mbps each. Upload speeds were a substantially different story, however, with AT&T far out in front at a median speed of 142Mbps, trailed distantly by Verizon at 104Mbps. The top three fixed broadband providers were tightly clustered, however, with Spectrum close behind Xfinity at 225Mbps and Cox only slightly farther back at 212Mbps. In fixed broadband, the landscape was more competitive - Spectrum dropped from first to second place as Xfinity moved up from third to take the top spot, with a median download speed of 226Mbps in the last quarter of the year. T-Mobile won this category again, with a score of 86.8%, but Verizon and AT&T were both close behind, at 82.4% and 81.1%, respectively. (AT&T hit the 59ms mark.)Ī similar situation prevailed in terms of consistency, which Ookla measures as the percentage of connections showing at least 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Controlling for 5G connections only, Verizon actually won the category for the last quarter, with 53ms average latency compared to T-Mobile’s 54ms. tests I ran at the AT&T Internet Speed Test and at Ooklas Speedtest. T-Mobile won in this category again, with an average multiserver latency of 56ms, but Verizon was close behind at 58ms, and AT&T posted a 60ms average. Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test Go Results Settings Microsoft Azure 40.77.167.170 Finding optimal server. Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test provides much more accurate. The big three were more tightly packed when it comes to latency, however.
