The best South African ISPs for gamers

A stable online connection is one of the most important considerations for online gamers.

If these gamers want to play online, it is critical that their connection allows them to do so without lagging or disconnecting them from the game.

Likewise, as more gamers switch to purchasing digital versions of video games, it has become important to have a connection that can download large games fast.

When deciding on an ISP, it is therefore important that gamers do their research.

Steam download speeds

If you are a PC gamer, you will probably download a lot of your video games from Steam.

It is therefore important that your download speed when accessing Steam’s servers is high.

Steam has detailed the average download speeds for users of various top South African ISPs, which can be viewed below.

It is worth noting that there may be faster ISPs that are not on the list; however, these ISPs were not among the top 10 most popular ISPs in South Africa according to Steam.

At the time of writing, the average download rate over the past seven days was 15.5Mbps, while South African users had downloaded a total of 749TB – which accounted for 0.2% of global Steam traffic.

ISP speeds in South Africa

MyBroadband’s Speed Test tracks the speeds recorded when users gauge their upload and download speeds.

The latest data on the download and upload speeds of South Africa’s most popular ISPs was published in August 2020.

The median download speed, upload speed, and latency of South Africa’s top ISPs are provided.

Latency, also known as ‘ping’ in gaming circles, refers to the time between the user issuing a command on their device, and the command being executed online.

This means that the lower the latency number, the better the experience of the gamer.

It should be noted that these speeds are technology-dependent and should therefore not be seen as a reflection of network performance.