Average Internet Speed in India

Internet in India: what the data shows

At a median 33.9 Mbps download, India sits below the midpoint of the table: #60 of 119 ranked countries, essentially level with the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, more than 4× the speed measured here.

Uploads keep pace with downloads (32.6 vs 33.9 Mbps): connections here are balanced, just not fast. Median latency is 64 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

The provider table stretches wide: ACT Fibernet leads the measured ISPs at 125 Mbps, 3.7× the national median. A spread like that opens up where full-fibre networks compete against legacy copper and cable, so which network serves your address changes more than any plan upgrade.

Desktops test faster than phones here (42 vs 22 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 32% of tests. By operating system, Ubuntu devices record the quickest median (74 Mbps) while Android sits at 20 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from India most often reached the Mumbai test server (36% 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.