{"id":34377,"date":"2012-03-19T00:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34377"},"modified":"2012-03-19T00:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:38:31","slug":"the-best-adsl-isp-in-sa-according-to-consumer-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/34377-the-best-adsl-isp-in-sa-according-to-consumer-survey","title":{"rendered":"The best ADSL ISP in SA according to consumer survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB is the top ADSL ISP in South Africa, followed by Afrihost and Openweb. This is according to a recent survey by MyBroadband which asked consumers to rate their ADSL service provider.<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, ADSL users were asked to rate their ADSL service provider based on performance (speed and latency), support and value for money.<\/p>\n<p>The five point rating scale used in the poll was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 &#8211; Excellent (much better than expected)<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; Good (better than expected)<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; Fair (exactly as expected)<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Bad (worse than expected)<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; Pathetic (much worse than expected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MWEB was rated as the top ADSL ISP with an average score of 4.21 (maximum score = 5), followed by Afrihost (4.12) and Openweb (4.04).<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that not a single ISP surveyed received a score below the average (3), clearly showing that ADSL subscribers are typically happy with the service levels they receive from their ISP.<\/p>\n<p>The following table provides an overview of the votes each ISP received and the average score per ISP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>ISP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Average<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MWEB<\/td>\n<td>178<\/td>\n<td>138<\/td>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>4.21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Afrihost<\/td>\n<td>90<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>4.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Openweb<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>4.04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Axxess<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>4.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Web Africa<\/td>\n<td>59<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>3.73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cybersmart<\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>3.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Telkom Internet<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<td>56<\/td>\n<td>66<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>3.35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vox\/Lantic<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>3.26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Internet Solutions<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>3.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Best broadband connections in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/45411-best-and-worst-broadband-connections-in-sa.html\"><strong>Best and worst broadband connections in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA Internet Speeds - good and bad news\" href=\"..\/broadband\/43863-sas-internet-speeds-good-and-bad-news.html\"><strong>SA\u2019s Internet speeds: Good and bad news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Broadband speeds - South Africa versus Africa\" href=\"..\/broadband\/43855-broadband-speeds-south-africa-versus-africa.html\"><strong>Broadband Speeds \u2013 South Africa versus Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fibre broadband conectivity - good news for South Africa\" href=\"..\/broadband\/44381-fibre-broadband-connectivity-good-news-for-sa.html\"><strong>Fibre broadband connectivity \u2013 good news for South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MyBroadband survey reveals which ADSL service provider in South Africa has the happiest customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":33969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2682,2289,1567,21,1569,217,2775,2776,2777,295],"class_list":["post-34377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-lantic","tag-afrihost","tag-cybersmart","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-mweb","tag-openweb","tag-telkom-internet","tag-vox","tag-web-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34379,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377\/revisions\/34379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}