It is quite distressing to see how slow our average broadband speeds in South Africa are. According to rankings by speedtest.net, whose website you can access at www.speedtest.net , we currently rank the 109th fastest country in upload speed and 99th in download speed. Even in Africa, Ugana, Kenia and Morocco all have average download speeds faster than South Africa and when it comes to upload speeds, you can toss in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania and Gambia, all who have average upload speeds that are faster than in South Africa! The only good news is that Telkom is apparently planning to upgrade the ADSL lines in about June to 10 mbps which means uploads at least should become two and a half times faster round about then.