{"id":305246,"date":"2019-05-09T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=305246"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:15:57","slug":"gautrain-speed-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/305246-gautrain-speed-shootout.html","title":{"rendered":"Gautrain speed shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gautrain is one of the most popular public transport services among middle-class citizens in Gauteng, with 62,000 train journeys a day.<\/p>\n

People can travel to numerous stations between Johannesburg, Pretoria, and OR Tambo Airport along the Gautrain\u2019s 80-kilometre commuter rail system.<\/p>\n

Most people use their smartphones on the trip to browse the Internet, read emails, make calls, or check their latest WhatsApp messages.<\/p>\n

To remain connected, is a challenge however, as the train travels at up to 160km\/h on a route with numerous tunnels and stations.<\/p>\n

This raises an important question: which mobile operator in South Africa offers the best performance along the Gautrain route?<\/p>\n

Gautrain mobile network tests<\/h3>\n

To test the performance of mobile networks, MyBroadband conducted hundreds of download, upload, and latency tests along the Gautrain route.<\/p>\n

The tests were conducted using two test benches with five high-end smartphones each, which include Huawei Mate 20 Pro devices (shown below).<\/p>\n

These phones ran a custom version of the MyBroadband Android Speed Test app<\/strong><\/a>, which conducted network performance tests every minute.<\/p>\n

The full route \u2013 from the Hatfield station to the Johannesburg station \u2013 were done twice to ensure accurate results.<\/p>\n

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The results<\/h3>\n

The mobile network test results showed that the performance for Vodacom and MTN were very good along most of the Gautrain route.<\/p>\n

There were, however, a few areas where both Vodacom and MTN devices lost connectivity.<\/p>\n

Cell C, Telkom, and Rain had only patchy coverage along the Gautrain route and regularly lost connectivity.<\/p>\n

Vodacom had the highest average upload and download speeds, while Telkom recorded the lowest latency.<\/p>\n

The table below provides an overview of the performance of the networks along the Gautrain route.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Gautrain Average Performance<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operator<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nLatency (ms)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/strong><\/td>\n62Mbps<\/td>\n17Mbps<\/td>\n29ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/strong><\/td>\n61Mbps<\/td>\n17Mbps<\/td>\n22ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/strong><\/td>\n26Mbps<\/td>\n4Mbps<\/td>\n28ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/strong><\/td>\n21Mbps<\/td>\n7Mbps<\/td>\n32ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rain<\/strong><\/td>\n16Mbps<\/td>\n4Mbps<\/td>\n23ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Gautrain Peak Speeds<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operator<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nLatency (ms)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/strong><\/td>\n163Mbps<\/td>\n31Mbps<\/td>\n26ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/strong><\/td>\n156Mbps<\/td>\n15Mbps<\/td>\n20ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rain<\/strong><\/td>\n89Mbps<\/td>\n28Mbps<\/td>\n36ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell<\/strong> C<\/strong><\/td>\n80Mbps<\/td>\n9Mbps<\/td>\n25ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/strong><\/td>\n68Mbps<\/td>\n9Mbps<\/td>\n15ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read: The best big data deals South Africa has ever seen<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband tested the mobile network performance of Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, Telkom, and Rain on the Gautrain. Here are the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":262639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,8231,35,42,43716,109,41],"class_list":["post-305246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-gautrain","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-rain","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305246"}],"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=305246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305248,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305246\/revisions\/305248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}