Internet Providers in Bloomington, IL

Internet Access in Bloomington, Illinois

Broadband Internet competition is above-average in Bloomington compared with other Illinois cities, with is an average of 5.82 providers available in each census block. Bloomington ranks 24th on the "most connected city" charts. Only 2.53 percent of Bloomington addresses have fewer than two options so far as broadband service.

Coverage from the two most common providers, Metronet and Viasat Internet, in most cases, will overlap. As you might expect, the choice between Metronet and Viasat is a common one in Bloomington.

HughesNet and Frontier Communications also have coverage in Bloomington, often competing for the same customers.

In terms of network options, Bloomington has every common broadband varieties: fiber, cable, and DSL. Among the local options, Fiber service is overall the better option. Fiber Internet has 84.68 percent availability in Bloomington.

The coverage stats here comes via FCC provider-reported data, requiring Internet providers in Bloomington to submit deployment and subscriber data biannually. Leveraging direct agreements with telecom companies nationally, we are able to validate this data with privatized data including lit addresses submitted via Internet providers directly. The speed averages shown here are calculated from browser-based speed tests originating from the Bloomington area in the M-Labs database, which is built into Google search as well as BroadbandNow. In terms of package pricing and info we pull data manually. Our market research team has found and listed 774 broadband packages relevant for Bloomington over recent years, and 104 of those are currently active.