The latest MyBroadband speed test results show that Cybersmart’s fibre-to-the-home service offers the lowest average latency to gamers in South Africa.
MyBroadband’s speed test servers make use of Ookla’s platform, and are hosted in Teraco’s vendor-neutral data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Through NapAfrica, all network operators present at its peering points are provided with a free 1Gbps connection to the MyBroadband speed test platform.
To ensure that only results from broadband connections are used, MyBroadband filters speed tests based on network information from the Internet service providers.
With over 40,000 broadband tests per month, the MyBroadband speed test platform is a popular destination for South Africans to gauge their Internet services.
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The results show that Cybersmart’s fibre-to-the-home service had the lowest latency with only 6ms.
For those not lucky enough to have fibre or ADSL access, Vodacom’s mobile service offered the lowest wireless broadband latency at 37ms.
It should be noted that the performance of ADSL and VDSL ISPs are covered in a separate article.
| Fibre Latency | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISP | Service | Download Speed (kbps) | Upload Speed (kbps) | Latency (ms) |
| Cybersmart | Fibre | 11,379 | 12,376 | 6 |
| iConnect | Fibre | 48,313 | 44,105 | 6 |
| Cool Ideas | Fibre | 31,960 | 25,490 | 9 |
| XDSL | Fibre | 30,256 | 38,468 | 12 |
| MWEB | Fibre | 67,965 | 18,955 | 24 |
| BitCo | Fibre | 87,488 | 87,564 | 27 |
| Wireless Broadband Latency | ||||
| ISP | Service | Download Speed (kbps) | Upload Speed (kbps) | Latency (ms) |
| Vodacom | Vodacom Mobile | 24,756 | 7,360 | 37 |
| Telkom | Telkom Mobile | 6,803 | 2,046 | 58 |
| MTN | MTN Mobile | 53,810 | 19,864 | 58 |
| Telkom | Telkom Fixed LTE | 12,460 | 3,335 | 59 |
| Cell C | Cell C Mobile | 7,814 | 4,658 | 69 |
| iBurst | iBurst Wireless | 1,166 | 460 | 71 |
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How about measuring the average latency to actual game servers. Just because an ISP does a good job at a speed test doesn’t mean they do a fantastic job connecting you to your favourite game server.