Dallas residential internet coverage
Dallas, Fort Worth, and many of the area’s suburbs are covered by AT&T, Optimum, and Spectrum. But you may find you have a few more internet providers to choose from depending on which neighborhood or suburb you live in.
Fort Worth
(Arlington Heights, Crestwood, Linwood, Monticello, Ridgmar, and Westover Hills)
Along with AT&T and Spectrum, certain neighborhoods in Fort Worth can get their fill of all things internet with Windstream.
Dallas
(North Dallas and Northwest Dallas)
If you call North or Northwest Dallas home, you’ve got a choice between Windstream, AT&T, and Spectrum.
Dallas–Fort Worth Suburbs
(Allen, Denton, Frisco, Garland, Irving, Plano, and Richardson)
AT&T, Spectrum, and Frontier cover this region. However, Frontier doesn’t extend its service to downtown Dallas or Fort Worth.
Areas East of Dallas
AT&T, Frontier, and Optimum are available in Rockwall and Terrell.
AT&T is typically the lowest-priced option in this area. If you opt for its DSL plan, you can get speeds up to 100 Mbps, but we’d recommend fiber if you can get it—a speed of 300 Mbps will be perfect for a mid-sized household. Frontier gives you a two-year price guarantee, so if you plan on calling the great state of Texas home for a while, there’s no need to worry about price hikes.
Highest-rated internet service providers in Dallas
Of all the internet service providers (ISPs) available in the DFW area, EarthLink ranked highest for overall customer satisfaction in our customer satisfaction survey. The provider has gotten great ratings in our survey for years and in 2022 it scored at or near the top for crucial categories like speed, price, and customer service.
AT&T and Spectrum also ranked well in our analysis of national providers, with AT&T coming in second for price and Spectrum landing in first for speed. Meanwhile T-Mobile, Nextlink, and Sparklight all performed excellently for overall satisfaction when we compared them with other regional internet providers. Long story short, Texans living in Dallas have a lot of well-rated internet options to choose from.