The Fastest ISPs 2022: Canada
This year, we collected more internet speed tests than ever before in Canada. This isn’t surprising, since 90% of Canadians are online(Opens in a new window), and 55% of them spend 5+ hours per day on the internet(Opens in a new window). The pandemic only increased that usage, which makes having the fastest possible ISP more important than ever. According to our Canadian readers, these are the fastest ISPs for 2022.
Major Canadian ISPs have jockeyed for the title of fastest for years. Since we started measuring broadband in Canada in 2013, winners have included Rogers, Bell Aliant, and Bell Canada (which absorbed Aliant). In 2020 and 2021, Telus took the top spot. It wins again this year, thanks to a slight improvement in its PCMag Speed Index score from 260.0 to 281.1. It's not a breakthrough in speed, but it's enough of an increase to stay ahead.
Telus breaks out its various service offerings in our data, so we can clearly state the ISP's win is based on its fiber-to-the-home-or-premises connections, which Telus markets as PureFibre. The company's DSL connections manage a PCMag Speed Index of just 38.7, lower even than satellite provider Starlink (67.1).
Bell Canada is also broken out in our data—that 236.2 second-place spot is for fiber (marketed as Fibe Internet), while Bell’s DSL earns a 50.0 PSI lower down the list.
Those two big fiber players have beaten the cable providers in our results for the last few years. In 2021, Shaw and Rogers each clawed for a middle spot. This year, that’s still the case, but the middle is higher and both see big upticks in speed, as does Cogeco.
The small ISPs that sometimes only service one municipality—or maybe even one neighborhood—tend to be the true heroes of internet velocity
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