{"id":290988,"date":"2019-01-09T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T09:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=290988"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T09:27:07","slug":"new-south-african-internet-speed-test-website-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/290988-new-south-african-internet-speed-test-website-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"New South African Internet speed test website launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new South African speed test platform &#8211; hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Speedtest.co.za<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; has been launched to give local Internet users an accurate performance assessment of their Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>Speedtest.co.za is powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/speedtest.mybroadband.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong><\/a> and uses the same speed test engine as many prominent international performance measurement platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The new speed test platform has servers at NapAfrica\u2019s Internet peering points in Johannesburg and Cape Town to provide a vendor-neutral testing environment.<\/p>\n<p>These servers are connected via a 10Gbps link to NapAfrica to ensure there is ample capacity for accurate speeds of even the fastest broadband connections.<\/p>\n<p>The Speedtest.co.za platform has a clean interface without ad clutter, and makes it easy for users to measure their download speed, upload speed, and latency.<\/p>\n<p>It was built to work on desktops, tablets, and smartphones, which means users can test their fixed or mobile speed on any device.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also rate their Internet service provider, share their results on social media, and use the platform to request a fibre upgrade.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Test the performance of your Internet connection:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Internet Speed Test<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new South African speed test platform &#8211; hosted at Speedtest.co.za &#8211; has been launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":290990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,56478,521,1181],"class_list":["post-290988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-internet-speed-test","tag-mybroadband","tag-speed-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290988"}],"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=290988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291440,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290988\/revisions\/291440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}