Average Internet Speed in Iceland

Internet in Iceland: what the data shows

At a median 97.5 Mbps download, Iceland sits inside the top tenth of the table: #7 of 119 ranked countries, 2.9× the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, within striking distance.

The median upload is 63.1 Mbps, about 65% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 48 ms. That works for streaming and browsing, though competitive gaming and video calls will feel it.

Sýn tops the measured providers at 218 Mbps, about 2.2× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (115 vs 79 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 29% of tests.

Tests from Iceland most often reached the Amsterdam test server (48% 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.