{"id":78602,"date":"2015-07-16T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78602"},"modified":"2015-07-16T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T09:33:00","slug":"which-neighbourhoods-have-the-highest-average-download-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/78602-which-neighbourhoods-have-the-highest-average-download-speed","title":{"rendered":"Which neighbourhoods have the highest average download speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ookla\u2019s Net Index website shows that Sandton, Bryanston, and Midrand are the South African suburbs with the highest average broadband speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The Net Index website uses data from millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net to calculate the average broadband speeds around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The website shows that the average download speed in South Africa is 7.9Mbps, while the average upload speed is 4Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an increase in the average broadband speed in recent years, South Africa still lags behind global standards.<\/p>\n<p>The average global download speed is 24.3Mbps, while the average upload speed is 11.2Mbps. This is much higher than local speeds, as shown in the table below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#0099FF\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Net Index broadband stats<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#0099FF\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Average download speed<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#0099FF\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Average upload speed<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Global<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>24.3Mbps<\/td>\n<td>11.2Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>South Africa<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>7.9Mbps<\/td>\n<td>4Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><strong>Top broadband areas\u00a0in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ookla\u2019s Net Index website shows that Sandton had the highest average download speed at 16.1Mbps, followed by Bryanston on 12.64Mbps, and Midrand on 12.26Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>The list below shows the top 50 broadband suburbs in South Africa, ranked by average download speed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78604\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Best-broadband-suburbs-in-South-Africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78604\" class=\"wp-image-78604 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Best-broadband-suburbs-in-South-Africa.jpg\" alt=\"Best broadband suburbs in South Africa\" width=\"600\" height=\"2026\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Best broadband suburbs in South Africa. Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/132232-here-are-the-places-in-south-africa-with-the-best-broadband-speeds.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/132232-here-are-the-places-in-south-africa-with-the-best-broadband-speeds.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More broadband news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/78464-south-africas-adsl-and-fibre-prices-are-we-really-behind-the-rest-of-the-world.html\">South Africa\u2019s ADSL and Fibre prices: are we really behind the rest of the world?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/78170-best-as-well-as-worst-adsl-and-vdsl-isps-in-south-africa.html\">Best as well as Worst ADSL and VDSL ISPs in South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/77980-best-south-african-adsl-and-vdsl-prices.html\">Best South African ADSL and VDSL prices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":78608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[293,14796,2674,2932,1969,2593],"class_list":["post-78602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl","tag-average-download-speed","tag-broadband-1","tag-ftth","tag-news-2","tag-vdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78602","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78610,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78602\/revisions\/78610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}