Average Internet Speed in Albania

Internet in Albania: what the data shows

At a median 48.0 Mbps download, Albania sits in the upper half of the table: #39 of 119 ranked countries, 42% above the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 3× faster.

The median upload is 24.4 Mbps, about 51% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 66 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

APT tops the measured providers at 96 Mbps, about 2× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (64 vs 40 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 56% of tests. By operating system, Windows devices record the quickest median (65 Mbps) while Android sits at 38 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Albania most often reached the Sofia test server (55% of the top-server mix), so the figures reflect the routes everyday traffic actually takes. Every number on this page is a median of single-stream browser tests from the H1 2026 window: Real-World Speed, measured on the open internet rather than inside an ISP's own network. It reads lower than peak-rate tests by design, and every country is measured with the same ruler.