Online gaming platform Steam has added a new section to its statistics page – the Steam Global Traffic Map.
The map shows which countries have the fastest broadband connections and download the most games, based on Steam-using citizens.
The data is refreshed to show Steam’s most recent seven days of activity.
At the time of writing, South African Steam gamers had downloaded 101.3TB’s worth of games in the past week, with an average download rate of 1.8Mbps.
While over 100TB may sound impressive, it only made up 0.1% of Steam’s global traffic during that period.
The table below shows which Internet service providers afforded Steam gamers with the fastest average download speeds during the seven-day period.
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| ISP | Network name | Average download speed |
| Telkom Mobile | TELKOMMOBILE, ZA | 3.6Mbps |
| Vodacom | VODACOM-ZA, ZA | 3.3Mbps |
| Data Pro Business Online | DPBOL, ZA | 3.0Mbps |
| SAIX-NET | SAIX-NET, ZA | 2.4Mbps |
| Internet Solutions | IS, ZA | 2.2Mbps |
| MTN | MTNNS-AS, ZA | 2.1Mbps |
| Neotel | Neotel-AS, ZA | 1.7Mbps |
| Telkom Internet | Telkom-Internet, ZA | 1.7Mbps |
| Mweb | MWEB-10474, ZA | 1.6Mbps |
| Neotel | Neotel-AS, ZA | 1.7Mbps |
| Cybersmart | CA2-AS, ZA | 1.4Mbps |
What is also interesting to note is the popularity of the various ISPs with gamers, based on the number of bytes delivered.
Based on the amount of data delivered, the ISPs are ranked as follows (the amount of data downloaded was not included by Steam):
- Telkom Internet
- MTN
- Mweb
- Internet Solutions
- Neotel
- SAIX-NET
- Data Pro Business Online
- Cybersmart
- Telkom Mobile
- Vodacom
Article courtesy of MyBroadband
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