Average Internet Speed in Italy

Internet in Italy: what the data shows

At a median 50.0 Mbps download, Italy sits in the upper half of the table: #36 of 119 ranked countries, 47% above the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 2.9× faster.

Uploads trail well behind at 20.2 Mbps, roughly 40% of the download rate: download-tilted technologies such as cable, DSL and mobile broadband still carry most connections. Median latency is 34 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

The provider table stretches wide: iliad Italy leads the measured ISPs at 278 Mbps, 5.6× 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 (60 vs 38 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 38% of tests. By operating system, Mac OS devices record the quickest median (106 Mbps) while Ubuntu sits at 12 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Italy most often reached the Milan test server (77% 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.