Average Internet Speed in New Zealand

Internet in New Zealand: what the data shows

At a median 81.8 Mbps download, New Zealand sits comfortably in the top quarter of the table: #15 of 119 ranked countries, 2.4× the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 1.8× faster.

The median upload is 59.2 Mbps, about 72% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 28 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

The fastest measured provider, Spark at 129 Mbps, sits close to the national median: providers cluster tightly here, so the plan tier you buy matters more than which network you pick.

Desktops test faster than phones here (101 vs 41 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 31% of tests. By operating system, Mac OS devices record the quickest median (115 Mbps) while Android sits at 29 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from New Zealand most often reached the Auckland test server (72% 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.