Top broadband speeds in South Africa

The latest MyBroadband speed test server results show that Telkom Mobile‘s LTE service recorded the highest peak speeds, followed by MTN and Vodacom‘s LTE services.

MyBroadband’s speed test platform is hosted at Teraco and NAPAfrica‘s vendor neutral data centres to ensure a neutral testing environment.

NAPAfrica further provides all network operators with free 1Gbps connections to the MyBroadband speed test platform, which means that they can optimise their performance without incurring any costs.

Average MyBroadband speed test results

Over the last month 87,240 speed tests were performed on the MyBroadband speed test server.

The average download speed was 8,402kbps, and the average upload speed was 1,964kbps.

It should be noted that these averages include speed tests performed from corporate networks and non-broadband connections.

Best broadband speed test results

To gain a more accurate view of the performance of broadband connections in South Africa, the results are filtered to only include tests which are performed from commercial broadband services.

Telkom Mobile’s LTE service dominated the top broadband results, followed by MTN and Vodacom’s LTE services.

The highest broadband speeds per broadband connection (hence peak speed) over the last few months are listed in the table below.

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