Average Internet Speed in Kenya

Internet in Kenya: what the data shows

At a median 4.4 Mbps download, Kenya sits near the back of the field: #114 of 119 ranked countries, well under half the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, more than 32× the speed measured here.

Uploads keep pace with downloads (4.9 vs 4.4 Mbps): connections here are balanced, just not fast. Median latency is 198 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

Zuku tops the measured providers at 11 Mbps, about 2.6× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (5 vs 4 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 48% of tests. By operating system, Mac OS devices record the quickest median (7 Mbps) while Linux sits at 4 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Kenya most often reached the Cape Town test server (35% 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.