AT&T offers service throughout most of the Chicagoland area, including surrounding suburbs like Evanston, Elgin, Schaumburg, Naperville, Joliet, Tinley Park and others. The company’s fiber internet service is one of the best deals in home internet these days — but the bad news is that most Chicago-area addresses will only be serviceable for one of AT&T’s much slower DSL plans, which also come with data caps.

With speeds no faster than 18Mbps in some neighborhoods, those DSL plans aren’t worth your time if other alternatives are an option, but it’s worth looking to see if AT&T’s fiber offerings are available at your address. If so, put AT&T right at the top of your list. For the same price as that 18Mbps DSL plan ($55 per month), fiber customers can get matching upload and download speeds of up to 300Mbps, with no data cap and no prescheduled price increase after the first year. Near-gigabit speeds of 940Mbps are available, too, and while AT&T’s blazing fast multigig plans with speeds of 2 and 5 gigabits per second aren’t available to everyone in Chicago yet, it may just be a matter of time.

Read our AT&T home internet review.