According to the latest State of the Internet report by Akamai Technologies Global Internet Platform, Nigeria has overtaken South Africa in terms of Internet speed – less than eleven years after reforming its communications networks and market
In the report it is revealed that Nigeria has an average connection speed of 322kbps with a peak rate of 5674kbps. But while South Africa’s average speed is faster at 496kbps, the country’s peak speed is only half that of Nigeria, at 2172kbps.

“All mobile providers had average peak connection speeds above 2 mbps, though last place South African provider, ZA-1 was just above the threshold, losing over 13 per cent from the prior quarter, at 2.2 mbps,” the report stated.

According to Leadership, “in 2011 South Africa was one of only two countries listed in the report with an average peak connection speed below 2 mbps. South Africa had average 442kbps over Nigeria’s 286kbps, however, Nigeria outperformed with peak 4871kbps and average 462mbps per month over South Africa’s 1654kbps and 197mbps.”

The report also noted that speeds across the globe were improving, and that all 117 countries that qualified for inclusion measured an increase in average connection speeds. The gain in average speed however isn’t uniform, as Montenegro grew by 0.2 per cent to 2.8 mbps, while Libya measured a 75 per cent increase to 0.5 mbps.

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2012/08/nigeria-leads-in-africa-internet-speeds/

we have connected to the net in South Africa and we do that daily in Nigeria and we all know that we dont even have internet at all in Nigeria. At the risk of over-exaggerating

I wait to see how people who havent done any research of their own will begin to rubbish this claim as false.

alstacs: we have connected to the net in South Africa and we do that daily in Nigeria and we all know that we dont even have internet at all in Nigeria. At the risk of over-exaggerating

Really? What do we have then? Tell us.

Airtel Nigeria. Sp33d is An ATITUDE.

Your download speed is 17.028 Mbps

or 1.465 Mbps DSL/T1/Cable

Modem
17.028 Mbps