South African University speed test showdown

MyBroadband has released its Q1 2018 speed test results, which show that the University of Stellenbosch had the highest peak broadband speed among South African universities.

The statistics used for this survey are based on over 1 million speed tests which were performed on MyBroadband’s web-based speed test platform between 1 January and 31 March 2018.

MyBroadband’s 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 10Gbps connection to the MyBroadband Speed Test platform.

According to the results, the University of Stellenbosch had a peak broadband speed of 2.13Gbps.

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Top speeds

The table below shows the South African university peak speeds, ranked according to download speed.

University	Download (kbps)	Upload (kbps)
University of Stellenbosch	2,132,832	742,096
North West University	1,426,503	634,769
University of Pretoria	945,471	587,366
University of the Witwatersrand	936,667	232,522
University of the Free State	921,405	486,194
Rhodes University	879,763	477,227
Monash University South Africa	864,338	899,874
Tshwane University of Technology	852,415	439,278
University of Cape Town	850,957	97,622
Cape Peninsula University of Technology	572,232	493,475
University of the North	565,963	250,549
University of South Africa	449,435	20,009
University of KwaZulu-Natal	371,987	163,365
University of Johannesburg	287,239	853,893
University of Limpopo	171,204	69,225
Mangosuthu University Of Technology	93,922	94,412
Walter Sisulu University	33,054	30,306
University of the Western Cape	24,122	18,254
University of Fort Hare	3,937	3,820