Average Internet Speed in Belgium

Internet in Belgium: what the data shows

At a median 88.7 Mbps download, Belgium sits inside the top tenth of the table: #11 of 119 ranked countries, 2.6× the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 1.6× faster.

Uploads trail well behind at 29.9 Mbps, roughly 34% of the download rate: download-tilted technologies such as cable, DSL and mobile broadband still carry most connections. Median latency is 25 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

Telenet tops the measured providers at 183 Mbps, about 2.1× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (96 vs 68 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 32% of tests. By operating system, Linux devices record the quickest median (150 Mbps) while Android sits at 59 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Belgium most often reached the Brussels test server (84% 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.