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Internet providers measured in Ohio, ranked by speed
Median real-world speeds for the 13 fixed home internet providers with at least 100 distinct connections in Ohio, fastest first. These are the speeds their customers measured, not advertised plan speeds, and not a statement of who can be bought at a given address.
| # | Provider | Download | Upload | Latency | Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metronet | 295.3 | 173.9 | 20 ms | 100+ |
| 2 | altafiber | 294.1 | 147.6 | 17 ms | 250+ |
| 3 | Fuse Internet | 291.6 | 167.4 | 17 ms | 250+ |
| 4 | Omni Fiber | 278.8 | 154.4 | 24 ms | 100+ |
| 5 | Spectrum | 214.2 | 24.9 | 27 ms | 5k+ |
| 6 | Breezeline | 209.0 | 36.8 | 29 ms | 250+ |
| 7 | Frontier | 203.0 | 147.0 | 27 ms | 100+ |
| 8 | Buckeye Broadband | 170.0 | 21.6 | 21 ms | 250+ |
| 9 | Armstrong | 169.1 | 29.0 | 35 ms | 100+ |
| 10 | Windstream | 157.4 | 147.6 | 24 ms | 100+ |
| 11 | AT&T | 148.4 | 72.1 | 29 ms | 1k+ |
| 12 | MCTV | 100.5 | 62.0 | 33 ms | 100+ |
| 13 | Starlink | 16.7 | 10.9 | 33 ms | 100+ |
The top two sit within 1.2 Mbps of each other, which is where a common plan tier lands in a browser test rather than a real difference between them. Starlink is a satellite service: a single browser stream over a link with a long round trip measures well below the figures satellite operators quote, and the latency column shows why.
Measured in Ohio and named rather than ranked: T-Mobile US, Verizon. In Ohio each of these is the operator's mobile network rather than a wired home line, and a browser test cannot tell a phone from a 5G home gateway on the same network. Ranking them beside fibre and cable would compare two different products.
Internet in Ohio: what the data shows
In Ohio, the median real-world download speed is 163.8 Mbps, 13% above the median published state of 145.6 Mbps, ranking #9 of the 39 states and districts with enough data to publish.
Ohio ranks 13 providers and four of them clear 278 Mbps, the deepest run of fibre-class results in any state table except Texas.
Uploads median 27.6 Mbps and latency 30 ms.
Mobile tests run about 1.1× faster than desktop, and mobile is 34% of tests.
Across the 13 fixed providers with enough connections to rank here, medians run from 295.3 Mbps (Metronet) down to 16.7 Mbps (Starlink), a 17.7× spread inside one state. Which network reaches an address matters more here than which state the address is in.
The Ohio sample carries enough tests to name 15 providers, 32 counties and 41 cities and localities. Columbus was its most-used test server, taking 58% of the tests among the five busiest.
Figures are medians of 10k+ browser-based tests from 10k+ distinct connections, first half of 2026. Each connection counts at most three times, third-party sources are capped, and datacenter networks are excluded, so one busy line cannot move a state. That makes these numbers a different series from the national figure on the United States page, and they are not directly comparable to it.
Where the Ohio data comes from
32 counties with enough tests to name:
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41 cities and localities with enough tests to name:
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Counties, cities and localities are named, never numbered, and listed alphabetically. Speeds below state level are part of the licensed dataset.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the average internet speed in Ohio?
The median real-world download speed in Ohio is 163.8 Mbps, with 27.6 Mbps upload and 30 ms latency, measured from 10k+ browser-based speed tests on SpeedOf.Me.
Where does Ohio rank among US states?
Ohio ranks #9 of the 39 states and districts we publish, 13% above the median published state. We publish a state only where at least 2,000 distinct connections back the number, so 12 of the 51 are not listed at all.
Why is this lower than the speed my provider advertises?
An advertised speed is the maximum the line can carry. This is a real-world measurement through a browser to neutral servers on the open internet, which is what a video call, a download or a game actually gets. Wi-Fi, the device and time of day all sit between the two.
Which internet provider is fastest in Ohio?
Metronet and altafiber are level at the top in Ohio, both within 1.2 Mbps of 295 Mbps median real-world download. That gap is smaller than the sample can resolve, so we do not call one of them the fastest. These are the speeds their customers measured, not advertised plan speeds, and a provider is only as fast as the line that reaches your address.
Which internet providers were measured in Ohio?
15 providers had enough tests in Ohio to name: altafiber, Armstrong, AT&T, Breezeline, Buckeye Broadband, Frontier, Fuse Internet, MCTV, Metronet, Omni Fiber, Spectrum, Starlink, T-Mobile US, Verizon, Windstream. 13 of them carry a ranked median speed on this page: the rest are either a carrier's mobile network in Ohio rather than a wired home line, or below the 100 distinct connections we require before publishing a median. That list is not a market-share estimate or a statement of who can be bought at a given address.
Are speeds on phones lower than on computers in Ohio?
Tests run on phones and tablets, over home Wi-Fi or a cellular connection, are 34% of the Ohio sample and median 175.1 Mbps. Tests run on desktops and laptops, which are almost always on a fixed line's Wi-Fi, median 157.6 Mbps. This is a device comparison, not a comparison of providers.
How current is this data?
It covers first half of 2026 and was last updated on 2026-09-05. The dataset is free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
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