{"id":11493,"date":"2010-02-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:30:00","slug":"vodacom-business-adds-speedtest-net-servers-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/11493-vodacom-business-adds-speedtest-net-servers-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom Business adds Speedtest.net servers in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speedtest.net<\/a> service has become the premier destination for Internet users to test the download and upload speeds of their broadband service.&nbsp; The Speedtest.net website has a very user friendly interface and sports a multitude of testing servers across the globe &ndash; including servers in Cape Town and Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business is the latest South African telecoms provider to launch their own Speedtest.net servers, hosted on Vodacom&#8217;s core network.&nbsp; The company added two new servers, hosted in Midrand\/Pretoria and Durban.<\/p>\n<p>This move came shortly after Telkom SA (SAIX) started hosting a Cape Town Speedtest.net server &ndash; based at their Barack Street Core Edge site in the Cape Town central business district.&nbsp; The server is connected via 1 Gigabit Ethernet to the Telkom core network.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business and Telkom joined Technology Concepts, well known for their ADSL bonding services, in hosting Speedtest.net servers.&nbsp; The new addition means that local broadband users will be able to accuratly measure their broadband speeds on multiple networks and locations.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business said it is planning additional speed test servers in the near future, but no details about the planned locations are currently available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?217114-Vodacom-Business-adds-Speedtest-net-servers-in-Pretoria-Durban\"><strong>Vodacom Business speedtest servers<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business joins Telkom in hosting two new local broadband Speedtest.net servers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}