Broadband provider’s performances after the quake
Posted Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 5:13 pm by Arnold Gamboa
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We’ve all been experiencing the effects of the recent Taiwan earthquake. Our internet connections are mostly down if almost unusable. Here’s my own experience with the 3 major broadband providers.
PLDT MyDSL
Location: Mandaluyong, residential
While I’m not a heavy user at home, it is still annoying to crawl through websites. My connection speed is almost, if not slower than, a typical dial-up connection. There are some websites that are inaccessible.
Globe Broadband
Location: Mandaluyong, business
As our primary internet connection at the office, this one’s useless — unusable. Period.
Smart Bro
Location: Mandaluyong, business
Surprisingly, this provider as our back up internet connection, is the one that’s keeping us alive. It seems to me that it’s delivering the expected speed as if it wasn’t affected by the recent problems. In my mind, Smart Bro and PLDT must be using or sharing the same infrastructure, but why is the Bro working good and PLDT MyDSL isn’t?
What’s your broadband experience at this time? (please state location)
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Hi. I’m currently waging a campaign for people NOT to by Smartbro Prepaid. It should’ve been named Dumbro for that’s what is it. I’m not surprised Smartbro is the name of a PC virus.
Anyway, I bought the Smartbro gadget for P3800 and up to now, i can’t even use Mozilla as my browser. It’s SUPER SLOW. I tested it at speedtest and it just registered a snail-paced speed of 23 kbps. Imagine that. I can’t even open Youtube and other graphic heavy sites. Sometimes Yahoo suggests that I just open their classic yahoo version since I was having a hard time opening their updated version. That’s how slow it is. I can’t even run my YM Messenger. It really sucks.
Customer support is passable but they can’t really do anything about it but tell you that they’ll report it. I’m planning to sell my gadget but I get guilt feelings about duping other people like Smart duped me.
So don’t be fooled into buying this Smartbro. You’d be wasting your money.
Is anyone here having an erratic connection lately? I am a pldt mydsl user living in Quezon city. My neighbor is having the same problems, I even interviewed some of my friends here in manila, and they are all having the same problems. Does someone know what could be the reason for this mass problem?
I am having an erratic connection. Does someone here is currently experiencing it. The problem started occuring yesterday?
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