{"id":73719,"date":"2015-03-29T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73719"},"modified":"2015-03-27T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:38:37","slug":"best-broadband-neighbourhoods-and-suburbs-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/73719-best-broadband-neighbourhoods-and-suburbs-in-sa","title":{"rendered":"Best broadband neighbourhoods and suburbs in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ookla\u2019s latest Net Index statistics show that Sandton, Parow, and Midrand have the highest average download and upload speeds in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Net Index website, which uses data from millions of test results from Speedtest.net, shows that the average fixed broadband download speed in South Africa is 6.9Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>While South Africa\u2019s average download speed is increasing all the time, it is still well below the global average of 22.3Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s average upload speed of 3.4Mbps is also far slower than the global average of 10.1Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Things are changing for the better, though. Numerous fibre-to-the-home projects have been launched in recent months, which will increase download and upload speeds in the country.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top cities and suburbs in SA: download speed<\/h3>\n<p>Ookla\u2019s Net Index states\u00a0that Sandton has the highest average download speed at 14.38Mbps, followed by Parow at 12.51Mbps, and Midrand at 12.10Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>The following list provides an overview of the top broadband cities, towns, and suburbs in South Africa based on average download speed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_122352\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Download-speeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122352\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Download-speeds.jpg\" alt=\"Download speeds\" width=\"600\" height=\"1720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Download speeds<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top cities and suburbs in SA: upload speed<\/h3>\n<p>The results show that Sandton has the highest average upload speed at 12.31Mbps, followed by Parow at 9.45Mbps, and Midrand at 8.77Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>The following list provides an overview of the top broadband cities, towns, and suburbs in South Africa based on average upload speed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_122354\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Upload-speeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122354\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Upload-speeds.jpg\" alt=\"Upload speeds\" width=\"600\" height=\"1723\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upload speeds<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"MyBroadband\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/122350-neighbourhoods-with-best-broadband-speeds-in-south-africa.html\"><em><strong>Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MSI\u2019s new all-in-one gaming PCs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/73683-msis-new-all-in-one-gaming-pcs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MSI\u2019s new all-in-one gaming PCs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Xbox double Games with Gold for April\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/73705-xbox-double-games-with-gold-for-april.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xbox double Games with Gold for April<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Top 5 zombie games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/73541-top-5-zombie-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top 5 zombie games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ookla\u2019s latest Net Index statistics show that Sandton, Parow, and Midrand have the highest average download and upload speeds in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":73721,"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":[2674,21,4665],"class_list":["post-73719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-1","tag-headline","tag-ookla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73723,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719\/revisions\/73723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}