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Want faster internet speeds? Move to Millington in Morris County. Or nearby Randolph. Those towns rank number 5 and 9 respectively in a national speed chart compiled Gizmodo. (River Edge is number 12, Woodcliff Lake 14 and Berlin 17.)

Gizmodo took at look at more than 5,600 municipalities to see who had the best and worst internet speeds.

The national average speed is a passable 18.2 megabytes per second. Data in Millington, though, flows at 41.59 Mbps. In Randolph, 38.88 Mbps. In fact, New Jersey on average does very well. See the interactive map below and click on your town.

The Gizmodo speed check found – probably to no one’s surprise – that richer neighborhoods fared better than poorer ones.

There are some outliers, however, and for a reason. The 7,000 people in Ephrata, Wash., have an average per capita income of $18,000. But the town has its own fiber optics provider. Internet speeds there top Gizmodo’s list at 85.5 Mbps.

Kansas City, where Google built a broadband internet network infrastructure, is second at 49.9 Mbps.

People in Chinle or Fort Defiance – both in Arizona – are probably still waiting to read this article. Their speeds are 0.84 Mbps and 1.41 Mbps respectively.

(Interactive map by Fred Kaimann/The Star-Ledger)

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