{"id":122916,"date":"2015-04-14T21:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=122916"},"modified":"2015-04-15T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T07:27:56","slug":"south-african-university-internet-speed-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/122916-south-african-university-internet-speed-shootout.html","title":{"rendered":"South African University Internet speed shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few years SANReN, in collaboration with the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET), connected most South African universities<\/strong><\/a> to its\u00a0fibre backbone at 10Gbps.<\/p>\n

These high-speed connections mean that South African students experience excellent Internet speeds on campus.<\/p>\n

Many real-world speed tests show performance of well above 100Mbps. This is much higher than the peak speeds of most residential and business connections.<\/p>\n

However, not all universities and campuses are equal, notably so when looking at international bandwidth.<\/p>\n

This article provides an overview of the Internet connection speeds of South Africa\u2019s largest universities.<\/p>\n

Local university connectivity<\/h3>\n

TENET executive Geoff Hoy explained that most prominent South African universities have 10Gbps last-mile connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call this national bandwidth and we are connected to JINX, CINX, and NapAfrica peer points in Johannesburg and Cape Town,\u201d said Hoy.<\/p>\n

Hoy said\u00a0all traffic served via Google and Akamai is\u00a0local traffic, providing students with a great experience from these platforms.<\/p>\n

\"Sanren<\/a>

Sanren network<\/p><\/div>\n

International connectivity<\/h3>\n

International bandwidth, which is provisioned over Seacom and WACS, is the biggest differentiator when looking at local universities’ Internet speeds.<\/p>\n

The University of Cape Town main campus is the international bandwidth leader at\u00a01.5Gbps.<\/p>\n

UCT is followed by Stellenbosch University’s main campus with 956Mbps, and NWU’s main campus with 696Mbps.<\/p>\n

The following table provides an overview of the Internet connectivity speeds of South African universities.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
University<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/th>\n
\n
Local connectivity<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/th>\n
\n
International connectivity<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
University of Cape Town (UCT)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n1,500Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Stellenbosch (Maties)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n956Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North-West University (NWU)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n696Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n630Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n589Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n483Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Johannesburg (UJ)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n447Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Pretoria (TUKS)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n405Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of the Western Cape (UWC)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n340Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhodes University (RU)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n330Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of the Free State (UFS)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n170Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of South Africa (UNISA)<\/td>\n10Gbps<\/td>\n153Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Fort Hare (UFH)<\/td>\n1Gbps<\/td>\n51Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Real-world university speeds<\/h3>\n

South African university students and lecturers assisted with some speed tests to show their real-world Internet speeds (you can post your speed test results here<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"University<\/a>

University Internet speeds<\/p><\/div>\n

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Many South African students experience Internet speeds which will blow your hair back. Here are the top universities in South Africa based on Internet speeds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":122926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,455,29586,35,23414,457,6673,317,29584,307,319],"class_list":["post-122916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-2","tag-cinx","tag-geoff-hoy","tag-headline","tag-internet-speeds","tag-jinx","tag-napafrica","tag-seacom","tag-south-african-universities","tag-tenet","tag-wacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122916"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122930,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122916\/revisions\/122930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}