Best gaming pings in SA

MyGaming’s sister publication, MyBroadband, relaunched its South African internet connection testing platform in August 2013, offering more speed test server locations and a neutral testing environment at Teraco and NAPAfrica’s data centres (New MyBroadband speed test here).

With enough results now gathered on the new platform, we can see which ADSL Internet services in South Africa provided the top latency results.

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.

ADSL is the typical benchmark for performance, with local latency between 20ms – 60ms, depending on your location and the server you are contacting.

At the time of writing, the following top 20 latency results were drawn from 33,108 South African speed tests conducted over the last 30 days (16 October 2013). 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.

Below we can see the top performing connection types and the ISPs powering them:

SOUTH AFRICAN LATENCY SPEED RANKING
Rank	ISP	Service	Speed
1	Afrihost ADSL	VDSL 20Mbps	17 ms
2	Cybersmart ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	19 ms
3	Afrihost ADSL	VDSL 40Mbps	20 ms
4	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	VDSL 40Mbps	23 ms
5	Vox ADSL	VDSL 20Mbps	26 ms
6	Cybersmart home uncapped ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	27 ms
7	Vox ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	27 ms
8	Cybersmart local only ADSL	ADSL 1Mbps	29 ms
9	BCS ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	29 ms
10	Cybersmart ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	32 ms
11	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	32 ms
12	Telkom ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	35 ms
13	Cybersmart home uncapped ADSL	ADSL 4Mbps	35 ms
14	Afrihost ADSL	VDSL 40Mbps	37 ms
15	Cybersmart capped and business ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	37 ms
16	FNB Connect ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	39 ms
17	Internet Solutions Consumer ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	39 ms
18	Afrihost ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	40 ms
19	Telkom ADSL	VDSL 40Mbps	41 ms
20	Cybersmart home uncapped ADSL	ADSL 10Mbps	41 ms