{"id":95057,"date":"2016-06-13T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95057"},"modified":"2016-06-13T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:59:33","slug":"best-adsl-isp-for-gaming-in-south-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/95057-best-adsl-isp-for-gaming-in-south-africa-2","title":{"rendered":"Best ADSL ISP for gaming in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest MyBroadband speed test results show that Cybersmart and MWEB offered the lowest average latency on ADSL and VDSL during May 2016.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband\u2019s speed test servers make use of Ookla\u2019s platform and are hosted in Teraco\u2019s vendor-neutral data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Through NapAfrica, all network operators present at its peering points are provided with a free 1Gbps connection to the MyBroadband speed test platform.<\/p>\n

To ensure that only results from broadband connections are used, MyBroadband filters speed tests based on network information from the Internet service providers.<\/p>\n

With over 40,000 broadband tests per month, the MyBroadband speed test platform is a popular destination for South Africans to gauge their Internet services.<\/p>\n

Best ADSL and VDSL ISP accounts for gaming<\/h3>\n

The results show that Vox had the lowest latency on ADSL at 16ms, but had too few results to be statistically significant. Cybersmart had the best result derived from a high number of tests.<\/p>\n

MWEB and Axxess had the best VDSL latency at 34ms.<\/p>\n

The table below show the top ADSL and VDSL ISPs, based on average latency. Average jitter was used as the tie-breaker.<\/p>\n

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Lowest Average ADSL Latency<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/td>\nDownload Speed (kbps)<\/td>\nUpload Speed (kbps)<\/td>\nLatency (ms)<\/td>\nJitter (ms)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vox Telecom *<\/td>\n1,998<\/td>\n442<\/td>\n16<\/strong><\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cybersmart<\/td>\n3,366<\/td>\n460<\/td>\n35<\/strong><\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XDSL *<\/td>\n4,828<\/td>\n579<\/td>\n41<\/strong><\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n3,790<\/td>\n514<\/td>\n55<\/strong><\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB<\/td>\n3,062<\/td>\n455<\/td>\n56<\/strong><\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/td>\n3,090<\/td>\n497<\/td>\n57<\/strong><\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Internet Solutions<\/td>\n3,865<\/td>\n517<\/td>\n57<\/strong><\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n4,060<\/td>\n511<\/td>\n58<\/strong><\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lowest Average VDSL Latency<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/td>\nDownload Speed (kbps)<\/td>\nUpload Speed (kbps)<\/td>\nLatency (ms)<\/td>\nJitter (ms)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB<\/td>\n14,528<\/td>\n1,440<\/td>\n34<\/strong><\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n19,315<\/td>\n1,659<\/td>\n34<\/strong><\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/td>\n15,606<\/td>\n1,369<\/td>\n37<\/strong><\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Internet Solutions<\/td>\n12,715<\/td>\n2,189<\/td>\n44<\/strong><\/td>\n29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cybersmart *<\/td>\n22,923<\/td>\n2,421<\/td>\n50<\/strong><\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n15,601<\/td>\n1,057<\/td>\n52<\/strong><\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
* Low number of tests for ISPs tagged with an asterisk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

More on ADSL<\/h3>\n

Telkom\u2019s fibre offerings are now cheaper than its ADSL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

You will no longer have to pay for Telkom line rental<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest MyBroadband speed test results show which ADSL and VDSL Internet service providers offer South African gamers the lowest latency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":78172,"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":[2289,19021,3662,1567,1569,217,287,19023,6258,16058],"class_list":["post-95057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-afrihost","tag-asynchronous-digital-subscriber-line-adsl","tag-axxess","tag-cybersmart","tag-internet-solutions","tag-mweb","tag-telkom","tag-very-high-bitrate-digital-subscriber-line-vdsl","tag-vox-telecom","tag-xdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95057","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=95057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95085,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95057\/revisions\/95085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}