Average Internet Speed in Panama

Internet in Panama: what the data shows

At a median 16.9 Mbps download, Panama sits below the midpoint of the table: #87 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 8× the speed measured here.

The median upload is 10.8 Mbps, about 64% 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.

Tigo Panama tops the measured providers at 29 Mbps, about 1.7× the national median, so switching networks can matter as much as switching plans.

Desktops test faster than phones here (46 vs 9 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 69% of tests. By operating system, Windows devices record the quickest median (43 Mbps) while Android sits at 9 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Panama most often reached the Miami test server (84% 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.