Internet Providers in Block Island, Rhode Island

Internet Access in Block Island, Rhode Island

There are two broadband options for Block Island residents: Viasat Internet and HughesNet. Viasat mostly offers Satellite service, with speeds up to 35 Mbps and coverage for near one hundred percent of the local area. As for HughesNet, they market Satellite, with coverage for virtually one hundred percent of Block Island.

The packages shown here are manually collected through our data analysis staff. The 22 packages shown above are the most current out of 95 packages we've seen in Block Island to date.

DSL-based Internet from phone providers has lots of availability in comparison with other Internet services around Block Island since it relies on landline phone cable to send data — the copper line reaches the subscriber via utility poles outside, and you plug in a modem to the phone outlet to complete the connection for home Wifi.

Verizon High Speed Internet and T-Mobile Home Internet also offer Internet service in Block Island, often competing for the same customers.

As a whole, Block Island's broadband access is not high — most of the area has 0 providers. 1,000 of Block Island residents have one of fewer options for broadband. This is verifiable in the interactive ISP territory map below. (That's 100 percent of residents with a single source for Internet.) Explore the map to see coverage variation between neighborhoods in the area.