Average Internet Speed in El Salvador

Internet in El Salvador: what the data shows

At a median 45.3 Mbps download, El Salvador sits in the upper half of the table: #43 of 119 ranked countries, 34% above the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 3.2× faster.

The median upload is 20.7 Mbps, about 46% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 85 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

The fastest measured provider, Claro El Salvador at 66 Mbps, sits close to the national median: providers cluster tightly here, so the plan tier you buy matters more than which network you pick.

Desktops test faster than phones here (46 vs 35 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 7% of tests. By operating system, Chromium OS devices record the quickest median (56 Mbps) while Android sits at 31 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from El Salvador most often reached the Miami test server (82% 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.