Best ISPs in Torrance, CA

What is the best ISP in Torrance?

Spectrum is the best internet service provider for most households in Torrance. With reasonable speeds and prices, Spectrum offers the largest home internet availability in this coastal community. Many other ISPs such as AT&T Fiber and T-Mobile Home Internetalso serve Torrance, so you’ll have options regardless of location.

We’ve also found the cheapest and fastest plans in Torrance to make your broadband shopping easier. Frontier Fiber offers the most affordable internet plan in Torrance at $30 a month for 200 or 500 megabits of speed, along with Spectrum’s offering of 100Mbps for $30 and 500Mbps for $40. Frontier Fiber is also the fastest bandwidth in Torrance, with symmetrical speeds up to 7 gigabit.

Best Internet in Torrance, CA in 2024

Source: CNET analysis of vendor data.

Source: CNET analysis of vendor data.

How to Find Internet Deals and Promotions in Torrance

The best internet deals and top promotions in Torrance depend on what discounts are available during that period. Most deals are short-lived, but we’re often on the lookout for the latest deals.

Torrance ISPs like Spectrum and Cox may offer lower introductory rates or streaming add-ons for a limited time. However, others, such as AT&T, Frontier and Verizon, maintain the same standard rates throughout the year.

For a more extensive list of promotions, see our guide to the best internet deals.

Source: CNET analysis of vendor data.

What is a good internet speed?

Most internet connection plans can now handle basic productivity and communication tasks. If you’re looking for an Internet plan that can include video conferencing, streaming video, or gaming, you’ll have a better experience with a more stable connection. Here’s an overview of recommended minimum download speeds for different apps, according to the FCC. Note that these are guidelines only — and that Internet speed, service, and performance vary by connection type, provider, and address.

For more information, see our guide to how much internet speed do you really need?.

• 0 to 5 Mbps lets you handle the basics – surfing the web, sending and receiving email, streaming low-quality video.
• 5 to 40 Mbps gives you higher quality video streaming and video conferencing.
• 40 to 100 Mbps should provide a single user with enough bandwidth to meet the demands of modern telecommuting, video streaming and online gaming.
• 100 to 500Mbps allows one or two users to simultaneously engage in high-bandwidth activities such as video conferencing, streaming and online gaming.
• 500 to 1000 Mbps allows three or more users to engage in high-bandwidth activities simultaneously.

How CNET chose the best ISPs in Torrance

Internet service providers are numerous and regional. Unlike the latest ones smartphone, laptop, router or kitchen toolit is not practical to personally test every ISP in a given city. So what is our approach? We start by researching pricing, availability, and speed information, drawing on our own historical ISP data, provider sites, and mapping information from the Federal Communications Commission on FCC.gov.

But it doesn’t end there. We go to the FCC website to check our data and make sure we’re looking at every ISP that provides service in an area. We also enter local addresses on provider websites to find specific options for residents. We look at sources including the American Customer Satisfaction Index and JD Power to gauge how satisfied customers are with an ISP’s service. ISP plans and prices are subject to frequent change; all information provided is accurate at the time of publication.

Once we have this localized information, we ask three main questions:

1. Does the provider offer relatively fast internet access?
2. Are customers getting decent value for what they pay?
3. Are customers satisfied with their service?

While the answers to these questions are often multi-layered and complex, the vendors that come closest to saying yes to all three are the ones we recommend. When choosing the cheapest internet service, we look for the plans with the lowest monthly fee, although we also take into account things like price increases, equipment fees and contracts. Choosing the fastest internet service is relatively easy. We look at advertised upload and download speeds and consider real-world speed data from sources like Ookla and FCC reports. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)

To explore our process in more depth, visit our how we test ISPs page.

Frequently Asked Questions about ISPs in Torrance