Best ADSL international latency from SA

According to MyBroadband’s latest Speedtest results, Cybersmart’s priority ADSL on a 2Mbps line has recorded the best ADSL latency from South Africa to an international test server based in London.

Following on from our look at local latency results – Best ADSL latency in SA – there were plenty of comments wondering how international latency measured up. Those results are below.

As South African gamers we sometimes have little choice but to connect to far-flung servers for our multiplayer games, and so the Speedtest results give insight into the general state of ADSL latency from SA to international locations.

Latency is the amount of time it takes for a data packet to be sent from the user, to a server, and returned to the user. This is typically measured in milliseconds (ms). For online gaming, the lower your latency, the better your experience will be.

South Africa to UK (London) ADSL latency – MyBroadband Speedtest results (30 days to 7 April 2014)
Rank	ISP	Service	Speed
1	Cybersmart priority ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	176 ms
2	Vox ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	182 ms
3	Afrihost ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	188 ms
4	Cybersmart ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	191 ms
5	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	194 ms
6	Cybersmart capped and business ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	201 ms
7	MWEB ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	202 ms
8	Telkom ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	207 ms
9	iBurst ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	208 ms
10	Vox ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	209 ms
11	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	209 ms
12	Vox ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	211 ms
13	Telkom ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	213 ms
14	FNB Connect ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	213 ms
15	FNB Connect ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	214 ms
16	FNB Connect ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	214 ms
17	Cybersmart home uncapped ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	214 ms
18	MWEB ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	215 ms
19	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	216 ms
20	Cybersmart ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	218 ms
21	Afrihost ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	220 ms
22	Cybersmart home uncapped ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	225 ms
23	Cybersmart home uncapped ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	230 ms
24	MWEB ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	243 ms
25	Afrihost ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	243 ms
26	Afrihost ADSL	ADSL 2Mbps	249 ms
27	Vox ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	251 ms
28	Cybersmart capped and business ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	257 ms
29	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	258 ms
30	MWEB ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	264 ms

The latency results above are taken from a total of 11,110 Speedtests conducted to London (LINX) over the last 30 days.

MyBroadband’s aggregated results are powered by Ookla’s Speedtest platform. The results have been filtered and aggregated (Joburg and Cape Town test servers) to represent the best overall ADSL ISP latency performance across South Africa.

Note that results are filtered to ensure that these are an accurate representation of what a real-world user might experience; in other words, none of the results include tests done from core locations on the respective networks of the ISPs listed.

In South Africa, the MyBroadband Speedtest platform is powered by Ookla technology, and the platform is hosted at Teraco and NAPAfrica’s vendor neutral data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. More info here: MyBroadband speed test: bigger and better