Gqeberha · South Africa
PeeringDB records one internet exchange in Gqeberha, South Africa. NMBINX, the Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange, has 12 participants, and a single colocation facility, OADC Port Elizabeth, lists 7 networks. With counts that small, an address geolocating to Gqeberha says more about an operator's registration than about where a device is.
Internet exchanges in Gqeberha
An exchange is a shared switch where networks hand traffic to each other directly. Participant counts come from PeeringDB, where each network maintains its own record.
| Exchange | Participants | Registry carriers peering |
|---|---|---|
NMBINX Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange | 12 | none in the registry |
Exchange records: PeeringDB.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there, which shows where capacity in the city sits.
| Facility | Networks present | Address |
|---|---|---|
| OADC, Port Elizabeth | 7 | Mutual Place,Cnr. Cape and Langenhoven Roads Greenacres |
What a Gqeberha IP address tells you
Gqeberha's routing footprint in the registry is small. NMBINX, the Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange, is the city's only exchange and has 12 participants, and OADC Port Elizabeth is the only facility, with 7 networks. Those two entries are the whole of what PeeringDB records here, so a network serving the city can have no Gqeberha entry at all and show up only where it peers. No South African mobile operator appears in the city's carrier list.
An address that a database places in Gqeberha may not be a device in Gqeberha. Operators announce address blocks from a registry record, and that record shows the location the operator filed for the range, which is often an office in another city. Mobile traffic passes through a limited set of gateways before it reaches the internet, so a handset in Gqeberha can present an address registered elsewhere, and an address registered here can be in use elsewhere.
The origin ASN on the prefix and the netname on the registry object are worth more than the city string. With 12 exchange participants and 7 facility networks recorded, few networks hold a routing presence in Gqeberha itself, so an address labelled here is usually announced by a network operating at a wider scale. The registry object shows which network that is.
Questions
Which internet exchanges are in Gqeberha?
One. NMBINX, the Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange, has 12 participants in PeeringDB. The city also has a single colocation facility, OADC Port Elizabeth, listing 7 networks, and the registry shows no other exchange or facility there.
Do South African mobile carriers peer in Gqeberha?
The registry does not show that. No South African mobile operator appears in Gqeberha's carrier list, so the 12 participants at NMBINX cannot be read as including or excluding the country's mobile networks. The origin ASN on a prefix answers the question for that address.
Does an IP that geolocates to Gqeberha mean the device is there?
No. Geolocation databases repeat the location an operator published for the address block, and smaller cities are often covered by ranges registered in bigger ones. Mobile addresses reflect the gateway a network routes through rather than the handset itself.
Sources
- PeeringDB - exchanges, participant counts, facilities and network presence, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - operator ASNs used to match peering participants