Average Internet Speed in Costa Rica

Internet in Costa Rica: what the data shows

At a median 58.0 Mbps download, Costa Rica sits comfortably in the top quarter of the table: #27 of 119 ranked countries, 71% above the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 2.5× faster.

The median upload is 35.7 Mbps, about 62% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 77 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

Metrocom tops the measured providers at 145 Mbps, about 2.5× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (85 vs 37 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 43% of tests. By operating system, Windows devices record the quickest median (92 Mbps) while Mac OS sits at 26 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Costa Rica most often reached the Miami 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.