Highest broadband speeds in South Africa

Staff Writer15 June 2017

MyBroadband’s May 2017 speed test results show that the highest recorded speed in South Africa was from a fibre user, with Vanilla as his ISP, who clocked 939Mbps.

MyBroadband’s new HTML 5 speed test servers are hosted in Teraco’s vendor-neutral data centres to ensure a neutral testing environment.

Through NAPAfrica, all network operators present at its peering points are provided with a free 1Gbps connection to the MyBroadband speed test platform.

The new MyBroadband speed test platform was designed to be lightweight and easy to use on mobile devices.

195,722 speed tests have been conducted on the new MyBroadband speed test platform since it was launched in March.

Top 20 highest speeds

The top 20 results were all from fibre connections.

Service Provider	Download (kbps)	Upload (kbps)	Latency (ms)	Test Server
Vanilla	939,221	24,043	2	Cape Town
Vodacom	928,898	505,612	2	Johannesburg
Vodacom	928,604	481,157	22	Cape Town
Audatex	927,734	890,227	2	Cape Town
Converged Telecoms	926,282	931,916	3	Johannesburg
BitCo	921,815	885,817	3	Johannesburg
ECOTECH	921,048	820,650	3	Johannesburg
Vox Telecom	919,038	25,882	2	Cape Town
Vox Telecom	917,897	26,324	2	Cape Town
Vodacom	916,778	486,842	22	Cape Town
BitCo	916,334	829,965	3	Johannesburg
BitCo	915,853	871,920	1	Johannesburg
BitCo	915,775	848,975	3	Johannesburg
Vodacom	914,677	266,641	22	Cape Town
Vodacom	913,935	587,738	2	Johannesburg
Vodacom	913,784	779,142	2	Johannesburg
Vox Telecom	912,261	26,380	15	Cape Town
Converged Telecoms	909,341	939,528	4	Johannesburg
Converged Telecoms	898,682	924,617	4	Johannesburg
MWEB Business	894,362	432,614	2	Johannesburg