Internet Providers in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Internet Access in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Broadband Internet competition is above-average in Dorchester compared with other parts of Massachusetts, with are 3.09 providers per census block on average. Dorchester is currently the 110th most connected city in Massachusetts. (Measured by number of providers with coverage at each address) As it stands, only 1.12 percent of Dorchester residents have one or fewer choices for Internet.

Xfinity provides an alternative, serving Dorchester with a maximum download speed of 1,000 Mbps. Wired Internet isn't actually the only option for Internet service in Dorchester. fixed wireless companies such as Starry Internet can offer 200 Mbps via direct wireless links. Aside from home Internet, there are 8 companies in the city marketing enterprise and smb technologies like SD-WAN. Our listings include every provider with explicit business packages online, but residential companies sometimes have business plans as well.

Looking at network technology being used across the city, we see that the most widespread wired broadband Internet technology types are Cable (98.90 percent coverage) and Fiber (75.33 percent coverage). TV providers are the main source for cable home Internet service, seeing as they can utilize their pre-existing coaxial TV cables — which have already been built out to homes in the area — to connect subscribers to Internet service. Dorchester-area customers of cable service providers such as Xfinity overwhelmingly select it thanks to the reasonably low pricing for workable speeds. (At least, compared to DSL.) Fiber uses future-proofed fiber-optic lines made of thousands of glass or plastic strands that transmit binary data as light. Not all "Fiber" connections reach the subscriber address, however. Some switch to coaxial cables once in the "last mile." Copper-based last mile connections hamper performance, but are still a grade higher than regular cable/DSL.

Viasat Internet offers the widest availability for Dorchester residents. The company is available to close to one hundred percent of Dorchester. HughesNet is the most likely second option in the area, serving virtually one hundred percent of residents with Satellite service. HughesNet's fastest package in Dorchester is 25 megabits per second.

Coverage data on this page comes via FCC reporting. ISPs in Dorchester are required by law to report deployment and subscriber data biannually. By using direct agreements with telecom companies, BroadbandNow is able to analyze and improve this data against privatized data reported via Internet providers. The speed averages shown below are calculated based on actual speed tests originating from the Dorchester area in the M-Labs database, a tool built into Google and BroadbandNow. In terms of package pricing and data, our research team has manually filed 519 broadband plans in Dorchesterin total, and 49 of those are active.