Highest broadband speeds in South Africa
MyBroadband’s speed test server statistics for the last 60 days show that Telkom Mobile LTE and MTN LTE services recorded the highest real world broadband speeds in South Africa.
According to the broadband speed test results over the last 60 days, Telkom Mobile LTE recorded the highest broadband speed in South Africa at 74.5Mbps. MTN was second with 68.7Mbps.
Telkom Mobile LTE and MTN LTE dominated the highest speed test list, occupying the top 43 spots.
Vodacom‘s LTE service, which produced a peak speed of 36Mbps, was the first non-8ta and non-MTN LTE service on the list at number 44.
The following table lists the 10 highest broadband speed tests from a commercial broadband connection in South Africa.
| Service | Download Speed (Mbps) | Upload Speed (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| Telkom Mobile LTE | 74.530 | 10.359 | 48 |
| MTN LTE | 68.656 | 12.464 | 66 |
| Telkom Mobile LTE | 68.632 | 6.503 | 36 |
| Telkom Mobile LTE | 67.416 | 8.050 | 38 |
| MTN LTE | 66.499 | 14.537 | 45 |
| MTN LTE | 66.385 | 13.551 | 53 |
| MTN LTE | 65.131 | 12.967 | 55 |
| Telkom Mobile LTE | 63.352 | 10.597 | 49 |
| MTN LTE | 61.246 | 13.707 | 51 |
| MTN LTE | 60.954 | 14.589 | 34 |
Highest speeds recorded per connection type
The following table provides an overview of the top speed test results by broadband connection type over the last two months.
It therefore shows the best result (peak download speed) for each of the most popular broadband connections in South Africa.
| Service | Network | Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| Telkom Mobile LTE | Telkom Mobile | 74.530 | 10.359 | 48 |
| MTN LTE | MTN | 68.656 | 12.464 | 66 |
| Vodacom LTE | Vodacom | 35.633 | 15.207 | 26 |
| MTN 3G | MTN | 24.995 | 1.558 | 242 |
| Vodacom 3G | Vodacom | 24.975 | 2.654 | 49 |
| Telkom Mobile 3G | Telkom Mobile | 23.600 | 2.554 | 42 |
| 40Mbps VDSL | Vox ADSL | 21.481 | 1.648 | 26 |
| 20Mbps VDSL | Telkom ADSL | 19.900 | 1.442 | 221 |
| Cell C LTE | Cell C | 16.586 | 3.014 | 48 |
| Cell C 3G | Cell C | 13.061 | 1.671 | 114 |
| 10Mbps ADSL | Telkom ADSL | 9.387 | 942 | 20 |
| Neotel CDMA | Neotel CDMA | 2.439 | 419 | 650 |
| iBurst | iBurst Wireless | 1.854 | 544 | 170 |
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