Thanks to Mary Ann Van Cura for sending me the article from PG Mag on the fastest ISPs. They polled tons of their readers to see who has the “blazingest speeds”.

Apparently they had 17,000 people respond to test their connection speeds and rank their satisfaction with their local provider. (In only three states were more than 50 percent of those polled were satisfied.) I think the goal of this PC Mag report was twofold: determine best areas in the US and help readers find a good provider.

Fiber was recognized as king of the hill speed-wise. Cable was consistently faster than DSL and most customers seemed pretty happy with cable. Urban areas were better off than rural areas.

So what were the results? Minnesota was number was 18 for speed with an average of 609 Kbps. (The national average was 557 Kbps.) We didn’t do as well with satisfaction. We had 34 percent of folks satisfied with their (that’s also a rank of 34th); however, we only had 15 percent of folks who were actually dissatisfied (for a rank of 46th).

You can download most of the results here. You have to sign up to be a PC Mag member; it’s free.