{"id":124068,"date":"2022-03-09T14:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124068"},"modified":"2022-03-09T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:54:08","slug":"the-easy-way-to-test-your-broadband-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/124068-the-easy-way-to-test-your-broadband-speed","title":{"rendered":"The easy way to test your broadband speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband\u2019s speed test platforms \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/speedtest.mybroadband.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MyBroadband Speed Test<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/speedtest.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Speedtest.co.za<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 make it easy for you to test your Internet connection\u2019s download speed, upload speed, and latency.<\/p>\n<p>After the speed test is completed, you can rate your ISP. These ratings are used for reports that rank South African Internet service providers.<\/p>\n<p>These reports assist South African broadband users to make informed decisions about which ISP to choose (<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/436110-south-africas-top-isp-at-the-start-of-2022-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>see the latest report here<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband makes sure all ISPs are treated equally. Its speed test servers are hosted in Teraco\u2019s vendor-neutral data centres to ensure a neutral testing environment.<\/p>\n<p>Through NAPAfrica, all network operators present at its peering points are provided with a free 10Gbps connection to MyBroadband\u2019s speed test platform.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband also has speed test apps for Android and iOS devices to make it easy to test your Internet speed on your mobile phone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=eu.vspeed.mybroadband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MyBroadband Android speed test app<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/za\/app\/mybroadband-speed-test\/id1251929921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MyBroadband iOS speed test app<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These speed test apps are free to use and contain no advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband\u2019s speed test platforms make it easy for you to test your Internet connection\u2019s download speed, upload speed, and latency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":124069,"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":[17604],"tags":[25889,6201],"class_list":["post-124068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-internet-speed-test","tag-speedtest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}