Due to prevailing conditions In September 2011 257,831 broadband speed tests were performed by South Africans using Ookla’s Speedtest.net service. While there were speed tests which were performed from core networks, the majority of the tests were done by consumers using their broadband connections.
Filtering the results shows that 244,449 results (out of the total 257,831 results) fall within parameters which one would expect from broadband connections in South Africa. Most of these tests were performed using the country’s most popular networks: MTN, MWEB, Telkom, Internet Solutions, Cell C and Vodacom.
The table below shows the ISPs with the highest number of results which fell within the parameters of broadband connections in South Africa. See the statistics below.
ISP Name | Number of Test |
MWEB | 53,410 |
Telkom | 53,296 |
Internet Solutions | 52,156 |
Cell C | 18,019 |
Vodacom | 14,865 |
MTN | 7,692 |
Web Africa | 6,513 |
Neotel | 6,199 |
iBurst | 5,014 |
This raises the question, which of the broadband networks produced the highest average speeds. The tables below answer that question.
Average Broadband Speeds: South African servers | |||
Broadband Provider | Download Speed (kbps) | Upload Speed (kbps) | Latency (ms) |
Cell C | 3181 | 1113 | 107 |
Vodacom | 2675 | 1078 | 168 |
Neotel | 2561 | 3410 | 82 |
Web Africa | 2314 | 399 | 109 |
Telkom | 2215 | 659 | 89 |
MTN | 2133 | 1124 | 143 |
Internet Solutions | 1959 | 486 | 93 |
MWEB | 1930 | 369 | 93 |
iBurst | 1051 | 784 | 152 |
Average Broadband Speeds: International servers | |||
Broadband Provider | Download Speed (kbps) | Upload Speed (kbps) | Latency (ms) |
Vodacom | 2802 | 843 | 437 |
Web Africa | 2436 | 321 | 330 |
Cell C | 2301 | 778 | 241 |
Neotel | 2231 | 1207 | 351 |
MTN | 1797 | 797 | 302 |
MWEB | 1559 | 282 | 353 |
Internet Solutions | 1459 | 368 | 302 |
Telkom | 1243 | 408 | 395 |
iBurst | 675 | 276 | 413 |
Average Broadband Speeds: All tests | |||
Broadband Provider | Download Speed (kbps) | Upload Speed (kbps) | Latency (ms) |
Cell C | 3138 | 1097 | 114 |
Vodacom | 2680 | 1069 | 179 |
Neotel | 2526 | 3176 | 110 |
Web Africa | 2325 | 392 | 129 |
Telkom | 2178 | 649 | 100 |
MTN | 2116 | 1106 | 151 |
Internet Solutions | 1918 | 476 | 110 |
MWEB | 1914 | 366 | 104 |
iBurst | 1039 | 768 | 161 |