The fastest ISP in South Africa

The January 2018 MyBroadband Speed Test results reveal that BitCo offers the highest average download speed, followed by iConnect and Vodacom.

The results are based on over 310,000 speed tests performed on MyBroadband’s HTML 5 speed test platform.

The speed tests include fixed-line, wireless, and mobile connections from ISPs, which means they can be representative of multiple technologies for a single ISP.

An ISP which mainly offers 4Mbps ADSL products, for example, will be at a disadvantage against an ISP which only offers fibre services.

11.75Mbps

According to the results, the average download speed in South Africa is 11.75Mbps, while the average upload speed is 6.9Mbps.

The highest recorded result came from Converged Telecoms, which clocked a peak download speed of 4.3Gbps.

The table below provides an overview of the average download speeds, upload speeds, and latency of South Africa’s prominent ISPs.

Only ISPs with a minimum of 1,000 tests were considered for the results.

Many ISPs have multiple IP ranges under different names, which is why certain ISPs appear twice in the list.

Average Broadband Performance
ISP	Number of Tests	Download (kbps)	Upload (kbps)	Latency (ms)
BitCo	2,681	39,876	40,211	48
iConnect	2,198	33,397	22,262	60
Vodacom	8,635	30,335	11,121	67
MTN SA	6,028	28,695	13,922	59
Vox	7,633	20,399	13,671	95
Afrihost	1,392	18,052	9,351	40
Metrofibre Networx	1,671	17,820	15,080	69
Cell C	4,473	16,594	12,101	67
Seacom	1,866	16,539	15,467	30
WIRUlink	1,879	13,510	8,022	60
Sonic Telecoms	4,953	13,497	6,836	34
Rain	9,302	12,490	6,400	69
Vodacom Business	1,085	12,290	11,432	96
Cybersmart	3,209	11,327	7,136	123
Skyfi Internet Solutions	1,062	10,327	7,195	64
Internet Solutions	11,133	10,086	6,607	111
Liquid Telecom	14,099	7,850	5,985	78
RMS Powertronics (Mobile Torque)	1,319	7,843	9,024	43
Telkom	4,375	7,571	4,813	95
Axxess	8,203	6,993	2,856	127
Optinet	9,245	6,813	2,798	164
Telkom Internet	78,157	6,591	2,345	138
Afrihost	13,390	6,482	2,429	166
Jenny Internet	1,451	5,745	4,042	54
Snowball Effect	1,956	5,336	2,376	74
MWEB	4,399	4,679	1,635	192
Trusc Group	1,323	4,482	2,348	69
Xpressnet	1,331	3,456	2,904	78
Breedenet	1,825	3,304	1,743	116