South Africans downloaded 456.9TB from Steam at an average rate of 5.7Mbps last week, the platform reported.
This accounted for 0.2% of the total data traffic downloaded from the platform during the period.
Steam is an online marketplace for PC games, software, and video entertainment, and offers 18,967 games – excluding mods and downloadable content.
SteamSpy reported that over the past two weeks, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the game with the highest number of players in South Africa.
Top ISPs
The table below ranks the most popular ISPs in South Africa accessing the Steam client, based on the number of bytes delivered to that network from Steam.
| Network | Average Download Rate |
|---|---|
| Telkom Internet | 5.0Mbps |
| Afrihost | 4.5Mbps |
| Internet Solutions | 8.6Mbps |
| Optinet | 3.9Mbps |
| Axxess | 4.4Mbps |
| Vox | 8.3Mbps |
| MWEB | 3.4Mbps |
| Neotel | 3.4Mbps |
| Cell C | 13.7Mbps |
| Cool Ideas | 32.2Mbps |