Average Internet Speed in the United Kingdom

Internet in the United Kingdom: what the data shows

At a median 82.8 Mbps download, the United Kingdom sits comfortably in the top quarter of the table: #14 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 1.7× faster.

Uploads trail well behind at 31.4 Mbps, roughly 38% of the download rate: download-tilted technologies such as cable, DSL and mobile broadband still carry most connections. Median latency is 24 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

The provider table stretches wide: YouFibre leads the measured ISPs at 296 Mbps, 3.6× 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.

Desktop and mobile tests land close together (84 and 82 Mbps), so the experience translates across devices; mobile accounts for 39% of tests. By operating system, iOS devices record the quickest median (117 Mbps) while Android sits at 60 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from the United Kingdom most often reached the London test server (87% 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.