{"id":121352,"date":"2017-10-15T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121352"},"modified":"2017-10-15T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:40:41","slug":"top-internet-service-providers-on-steam-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/121352-top-internet-service-providers-on-steam-from-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Top Internet service providers on Steam from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa accounted for 0.2% of the total data traffic downloaded from Steam in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/stats\/content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam\u2019s statistics<\/a><\/strong>, South Africans downloaded 405.7TB of data from the platform over the past seven days \u2013 at an average rate of 6Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Steam offers 32,215 titles in South Africa. Its catalogue of available games, excluding mods and downloadable content, sits at 18,214 titles.<\/p>\n<p>SteamSpy reported that over the past two weeks, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the game with the highest number of players in SA.<\/p>\n<p>The table below shows the average download rates for Steam clients on popular ISPs in South Africa \u2013 ranked by the number of bytes delivered to that network from Steam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<th>Network<\/th>\n<th>Average Download Rate<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Telkom Internet<\/td>\n<td><strong>4.7Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Afrihost<\/td>\n<td><strong>4.3Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Internet Solutions<\/td>\n<td><strong>7.9Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Optinet \u2013 Division of Internet Solutions<\/td>\n<td><strong>3.8Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Axxess<\/td>\n<td><strong>4.3Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vox<\/td>\n<td><strong>7.9Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MWEB<\/td>\n<td><strong>3.3Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Neotel<\/td>\n<td><strong>3.2Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cell C<\/td>\n<td><strong>13.1Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN SA<\/td>\n<td><strong>4.9Mbps<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/121210-steam-must-pay-licensing-fees-to-sell-games-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Steam must pay licence fees to sell games in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa accounted for 0.2% of the total data traffic downloaded from Steam in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":112553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-121352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}