Average Internet Speed in Nicaragua

Internet in Nicaragua: what the data shows

At a median 30.9 Mbps download, Nicaragua sits below the midpoint of the table: #64 of 119 ranked countries, 9% below 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.

The median upload is 17.2 Mbps, about 56% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 81 ms. That is on the high side: pages and video still load, but calls, gaming and screen sharing carry a visible delay.

Claro Nicaragua tops the measured providers at 64 Mbps, about 2.1× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (56 vs 14 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 46% of tests. By operating system, Windows devices record the quickest median (61 Mbps) while Android sits at 13 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Nicaragua most often reached the Miami test server (91% 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.