Average Internet Speed in Ireland

Internet in Ireland: what the data shows

At a median 111.0 Mbps download, Ireland sits inside the top tenth of the table: #5 of 119 ranked countries, 3.3× the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, within striking distance.

Uploads trail well behind at 47.5 Mbps, roughly 43% of the download rate: download-tilted technologies such as cable, DSL and mobile broadband still carry most connections. Median latency is 31 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

Virgin Media Ireland tops the measured providers at 269 Mbps, about 2.4× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktop and mobile tests land close together (110 and 113 Mbps), so the experience translates across devices; mobile accounts for 32% of tests. By operating system, Mac OS devices record the quickest median (187 Mbps) while Linux sits at 70 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Ireland most often reached the Dublin test server (70% 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.