Internet Providers in East Elmhurst, NY

Internet Access in East Elmhurst, New York

East Elmhurst has 8 residential Internet Service Providers, or 20 if you include business and mobile operators. Consumers have access to 7 broadband choices like cable and DSL.

Cable and DSL are the two main broadband network options around East Elmhurst, frequently overlapping and generally competing on service quality. Cable speed is overall better, but the overall speeds seen with either Internet technology type are comparable. Local speed test records show that the area's infrastructure is above-average. East Elmhurst is currently 2.79 percent higher than the state average in terms of citywide download speeds.

Coverage from Viasat Internet and HughesNet, in most cases, will overlap. As a result, the decision between Viasat and HughesNet is common.

14.17 percent of the East Elmhurst area is still left with only one or zero choices for Internet services. Accounting for all addresses in city limits, the average Internet user has at least 2-3 Internet providers to choose from. Addresses with more choices usually see lower pricing, since providers are incentivized to improve service to win customers.

The coverage data here comes from FCC data, which compels companies in East Elmhurst to submit coverage data biannually. Using direct relationships with telecom companies nationally, BroadbandNow is able to confirm public datasets against privatized data including lit addresses submitted by telecoms. Since 2014, BroadbandNow has crunched 3,477 rows of data on Internet access in East Elmhurst. The speed averages displayed here are calculated based on actual speed tests originating in the East Elmhurst area from M-Labs, which is integrated with Google as well as BroadbandNow.