Android vs iPhone average Wi-Fi speed comparison in South Africa

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Android vs iPhone — Fastest Wi-Fi speeds in South Africa

iPhones have significantly faster average Wi-Fi speeds than Android smartphones in South Africa.

That is according to research by Analytico, which used over 257,000 MyBroadband mobile speed tests from the first quarter of 2024 to measure the Wi-Fi performance differences between iOS and Android.
 
Jan said:
Android vs iPhone — Fastest Wi-Fi speeds in South Africa

iPhones have significantly faster average Wi-Fi speeds than Android smartphones in South Africa.

That is according to research by Analytico, which used over 257,000 MyBroadband mobile speed tests from the first quarter of 2024 to measure the Wi-Fi performance differences between iOS and Android.
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@Jan I think yo have made the classic logical error known as survivorship bias, otherwise known as the bomber bullet hole problem.
Its not the phone WiFI you are measuring but the WiFI Access Point.
All you have proved is that people with iphones frequent placess that have bought better WiFi Access Points.

People with Android phones are cheapskates who probably use the rubbish stuff ISPs supply...
 
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TheBoyBlue said:
Mybroadband's "News" has really dropped in quality the last year or so.
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I think they're gearing towards the new Apple distributor and advertising revenue, hence the moving away from the previous technology/brand agnostic approach with free flowing discussions ... and toward a fresh, new Apple-centric forum with heavy moderation on anyone that discusses anything that could be regarded as negative towards the brand.
 
reposting here here since my Disquss comment was deleted

Testing on my iPhone 14 on 5G within 30m of a tower and 2 mins apart I get
MyBB test 49Mbps download 44Mbps upload
Ookla test 639Mbps download 61Mpbs upload

thats a 12x increase in speed using a different speed test app
 
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Tim_vb said:
reposting here here since my Disquss comment was deleted

Testing on my iPhaone 14 on 5G within 30m of a tower and 2 mins apart I get
MyBB test 49Mbps download 44Mbps upload
Ookla test 639Mbps download 61Mpbs upload

thats a 12x increase in speed using a different speed test app
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You guys still post on disqus?
 
Isn't it because android users are cheapskates and only get 50mbps wifi fiber at home where iphone users have 100mbps wifi fiber at home?
 
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r00igev@@r said:
@Jan I think yo have made the classic logical error known as survivorship bias, otherwise known as the bomber bullet hole problem.
Its not the phone WiFI you are measuring but the WiFI Accesspoint.
All you have proved is that people with iphones frequent places that have bought better WiFi Access Points.

People with Android phones are cheapskates who probably use the rubbish stuff ISPs supply...
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Also, iPhone users generally have more disposable income, which will allow them to have faster Internet access. Reminds me of a MyBroadband article from a few years ago which stated that Parow, Cape Town, had the fastest Internet connectivity in SA. Those results were probably because MWeb's head office is in Parow.
 
Dolby said:
I think they're gearing towards the new Apple distributor and advertising revenue, hence the moving away from the previous technology/brand agnostic approach with free flowing discussions ... and toward a fresh, new Apple-centric forum with heavy moderation on anyone that discusses anything that could be regarded as negative towards the brand.
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aka MyBB are getting ghey-er.
 
dj_jyno said:
Also, iPhone users generally have more disposable income, which will allow them to have faster Internet access. Reminds me of a MyBroadband article from a few years ago which stated that Parow, Cape Town, had the fastest Internet connectivity in SA. Those results were probably because MWeb's head office is in Parow.
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Thanks for putting forward more evidence.
 
wingnut771 said:
Isn't it because android users are cheapskates and only get 50mbps wifi fiber at home where iphone users have 100mbps wifi fiber at home?
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That's mentioned in the article.
If you can shell out so much for a phone, you can do the same for fibre.
They speed test should ask what package people are on, then we'll get a better angle.
 
Oil said:
That's mentioned in the article.
If you can shell out so much for a phone, you can do the same for fibre.
They speed test should ask what package people are on, then we'll get a better angle.
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But they also have these articles with how much more Android get sold than iPhone in SA. That also is just because the majority Androids is cheap junk.
 
How many of you read the article?

Cause they say this at the bottom
Another factor to consider is that the average iPhone user is likely to be able to afford a better broadband speed than the average Android user.
 
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