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Would be interesting to see what the trend has been in the past 5 years for SA
I think the most recent results might be skewed downwards due to the recent move by Afrihost/Axxess to MTN
 
Best South African cities

The Ookla household promise index lists the top cities and suburbs per country. In South Africa eight suburbs are ranked, with Pietermaritzburg taking the top spot.
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I see no suburbs. :confused:
 
ISP is delivering good value for money...its the damn ADSL & telephone line rental thats killing the value proposition.

Stats are weird...doesn't seem to correlate with income or business activity or anything really...
 
HavocXphere said:
ISP is delivering good value for money...its the damn ADSL & telephone line rental thats killing the value proposition.

Stats are weird...doesn't seem to correlate with income or business activity or anything really...
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I think this article is about paying for a speed (example: 1Mb/s) and getting the speed (1Mb/s), averaged and compared between countries. It looks like you think it's the difference in cost and difference in ISP's........am I right?
 
How much of the loss of speed is due to Telkom exchanges overload?
Bumping line speed from 384kbps to 1mbps, 512kbps to 1mbps, then 2mbps without upgrading telkom backhaul can't be good for the rating as actual throughout has in most cases not increased during peak hours.
 
system32 said:
How much of the loss of speed is due to Telkom exchanges overload?
Bumping line speed from 384kbps to 1mbps, 512kbps to 1mbps, then 2mbps without upgrading telkom backhaul can't be good for the rating as actual throughout has in most cases not increased during peak hours.
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Then again, if anything like me, I only do speed tests when I think my line is not functioning properly (or for a MyBB comp!). When my line is fine I cannot be bothered with speed tests!
 
I don't know if this article is only talking about ADSL lines but, as for 3G broadband, I gave up on this speed hype business a long time ago. My 21.6mbps modem rarely exceeds 8mbps.

I will not pay more for a modem with a higher theoretical speed. Its a pure waste of money. Most of the time my connection runs at 2mbps download. So, whats the point of a 21mbps when you don't get more than 5mbps regularly.

Lets see what LTE delivers in terms of real world speeds.
 
So why is Telkom still bothering with 40Mbs lines when they cannot even give full capacity at lower speeds.
I think this just hot air they're selling. You pay for speed X and actually just get 25% of the speed you pay for.
Daylight robbery.

One should only pay for the speed you get. Under 1Mbps, just sign up for a 1Mbps line.
F Telkom, I will stay with 3G. Much faster and cheaper and mobile.
 
Would be interesting to see this by service provider - as an MWeb user I certainly get higher than these figures... I'm guessing the problem isn't with Telkom and is with the ISPs.
 
How credible is a repot referring to a place that ceased to exist more than a decade ago?
 
Pietermaritzburg – 83.07%
Verwoerdburg – 82.50%
Durban – 82.25%
Bloemfontein – 80.27%
Pretoria – 79.49%
Cape Town – 78.95%
Kempton Park – 73.75%
Johannesburg – 68.95%
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It should be noted, however, that within a network infrastructure there'll be an average "promise index", and then the same "promise index" exist in sections of the network. The reason Pietermaritzburg and Verwoerdburg (and even Durban) is so much higher than Jhb, is network congestion. I.e. it's a question of how many users is actually using the network in a given area. Across all businesses certain areas of sales are subsidising other areas. Jhb is not only paying for itself, it's doing so good it's probably paying for Pietermaritzburg and Verwordburg (and yes, perhaps Durban) without breaking a sweat. If Pietermaritzburg had to pay solely for itself the connectivity there would've been in the tens of thousands of rand per subscriber (I'm thumb-sucking here, so pls no "where do you get your figures from!?!?!!").

What I'm saying is, yes, SA's networks has a lot of work that should (and could) be done to them. What I'm also saying is that it is unfair to compare Jhb to Hungary, on the one side. However, it would be very interesting to see what the technology hub (i.e. "the place where the network originates) of Hungary. Not sure, but it's probably the capital, Budapest. It might be another city taking control of network infrastructure just like in SA it's not our capital Pta though, no clue - never bee to Hungary :)

MyBB, would you mind giving us the index of the network-controlling-city in the top cities so we can compare that to say Jhb and Pta? Would be really interesting to see if the stats makes sense (and, lol... if what I said made sense too)
 
iByte said:
MyBB, would you mind giving us the index of the network-controlling-city in the top cities so we can compare that to say Jhb and Pta? Would be really interesting to see if the stats makes sense (and, lol... if what I said made sense too)
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Generally speaking, around the world, the best broadband is in the larger cities - our stats are definately not normal. If anything, I'd say the congestion is at the IPC where the ISP's plug into Telkom's network - I'd guess the contention there is too high. Ultimately, it's Telkom's fault for overpricing that, but technically it's the ISP's fault for not buying enough capacity to support their subscribers, as some ISPs run at lower profit margins and have better contention ratios.
 
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