For years Mexico seemed stuck in “just enough” ISP connection speeds. 5-15 mbps, just enough to get HD streaming content, just enough to for some online gaming without terrible lag, and just enough to convince ourselves that there was “High Speed” internet. For example, in Q1-Q2 2014, average download speeds in Mexico were just 12.11 Mbps as compared to today’s average of 18.19 Mbps. Latency shrank in the same time period from 65 ms to 49 ms. Although, there is still some room for growth considering Mexico is 65th in the world on fixed broadband download speeds.

When we look at the “fastest” ISP results - which shows the top tier of all residential connection speeds - it becomes clear that even the fifth place finisher would have been considered “fast” only a few years ago. Mexico can finally say it has moved beyond “just enough,” and in the case of the winner, warped right past it.

Axtel is this report’s fastest ISP with blistering 155.01 Mbps download and 127.99 Mbps upload speeds, and with an almost imperceptible 2 ms latency. These are the sort of results you need for 4K streaming, PS4 remote play, and Smart Homes. It bodes well for consumers that this quality of connection is available in Mexico, albeit at a greater cost. It’s also shockingly far ahead of it’s nearest competitor.

Second place is held by Totalplay, which shows up with an 88.28 Mbps download and 19.39 Mbps upload speed. The company invested $400 million since February 2015 to make technology improvements to their network. Totalplay, which is active in 20 cities in Mexico, already offers fiber-to-the-home. But similar to other providers in Mexico, they are looking to enhance their customers’ triple-play experience with other services that attract new subscribers. They recently launched GameFly, which allows online gamers access to streaming video games, and have gone so far as to make their network available to competitors’ video streaming services in order to boost content provided to customers.

Moving to the third place ISP, izzi, we drop down towards less surprising connection speeds compared to Mexico’s countrywide speed averages: 31.58 Mbps download and 4.88 Mbps upload. izzi, which is owned by Televisa, the largest television network in the Hispanic world, used to be known as Cablevision before it was relaunched with a flashy new brand and more competitive fees when compared to marketshare leader Telmex (also owned by América Móvil). izzi when pronounced by spanish speakers sounds a bit like “easy.” Televisa has recently launched its Netflix competitor called “Blim” which has a preferential price for izzi customers. The service, however, has been mocked relentlessly for offering a subpar catalogue stocked mostly with Televisa’s own content (primarily soap operas). izzi also ran afoul of Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) in May for ad campaigns that “Did not provide the public with complete and accurate information on the services provided.” izzi claimed it offered “3 times faster internet” and was forced to pull the ads.

Fourth place goes to Megacable, a regional carrier that has a presence in 25 states of the Mexican Republic. The past two quarters, Megacable notched a 29.39 Mbps download and 8.99 Mbps upload. Megacable, along with Televisa’s izzi, used to offer a “Triple-Play” option under the YOO brand which they’ve had to divest themselves of in order to avoid further fines from Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT). They had already been fined for similar “collusion practices” in 2014.