planning to move to Manila City in late December and in my location I hear the only DLS provider offering any DSL plans in the tower is PLDT. Well, I need to telecommute and work in IT. I am heavily relying on a stable connection with as little delay possible. I don’t so much care about speed in fact. So, which plan would you suggest? The 999 plan is definitely too slow even though, thought of going for the 3mbit plan which comes up to 3000 pesos I guess. How reliable is that and how’s usual delays towards Europe? How often does not not connect etc?

Would be nice to hear from some of you or what you’d recommend. smart bro would preferably be my last resort. :p

Sabihin mo sa kaibigan mo sa umpisa lang yan.
Katagalan unti-unti pababagalin ng PLDT connection nya.
Puro kasi mga sinungaling tao sa PLDT eh.

You won’t reach their advertise speed, you’ll get only half of it. They’re definitely put a speed cap way way lower what are advertising. With my plan I should be able to get 2mbps but after testing using pldt.speedtest.net for many times and different times on the day the max I can get is 1mbps, the result is very consistent around max 1mpbs everytime. if won’t even spike past 1mbps do it’s obvious that there’s a speed cap. PLDT should e held liable for false advertising.

F*CK PDLT!!!!

Since August 29 i have been calling 172 ( Customer Service ) to report that i am having an intermittent DSl connection. Would yu freakin beleive this! they only get to fix my DSL connection this day and its already Sept. 18!!! I am not a computer dummy. I worked with SBC Yahoo before and i was a Triage Tech. im CISCO certified, i basically know 75% about routers and modems BUT its really impossible for me to fix something that is not on my end. First few days of my report im calm! 5th day… i TRY to be calm 6th – 10th day i am still trying to be calm. But this day… Geezuz Christ i just cant take it! We are their customer for mre than 2 years now and this is the first time that my DSl got fucked up and they can’t even send a technician or a decent return call from any of them?! and for the record… i’ve called their customer service for 25 times! 25 times!!! *sigh* all i can say is PLDT is freakin fuckin sucks!!! My disgust towards PLDT MyDSL’s UNETHICAL AND HORRIBLY UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF COMPETENCE is never ending. Ika nga sa tagalog, sagad na sa buto. Too bad PLDT DSL is the most DECENT DSL connection in our country. *sob* how sad.

I also called PLDT today and asked them what exactly was going on and the guy I spoke to pretty much said the same thing, the network just can’t handle dedicated 5mbps connections for some people, so they decided to drop the so called 5mbps plan.

Worse ISP in the world.

http://www.pldtdsl.net to check out the site for yourself and see the revised speed plans

they are actually controlling all of our connection speed with the use of a limiter which means pldt is deliberately scaming all of us . we can actually sue them for this .. and make a case in dti . if only we can make a consensus .

I’m also on the plan for P2200 since 2002, I’ve had many problems through the past years but they seemed to work out somewhat. I don’t know what our plan is called now but I am getting at an average of around 3 mbps (~350+ KB/s) on downloads and around 10% of that on uploads.

If you’re not using your DSL much, I think it would be better to downgrade and save a lot.

I’ve observed something. Kapag sa umaga mabilis yung dsl speed (fastest today was 1,300 kbps at 12:00 lunchtime). Kapag dating ng gabi, bumabagal siya. (Now, at 9:00 pm it’s only 612 kbps).

Just tested the connection speed using speedtest.net and apparently download speed is 991 kb/s and upload is 390 kb/s. Very different from last night’s abysmal speed. Bakit kaya ganoon?

Does it have anything to do with how many subscribers are using pldt dsl? It doesn’t make any sense to me though as it’s dsl, not dial-up.

Will do another test tonight, hopefully the speed will be sustained.

January of this year, we lost 1 months worth of dsl connection, but we were still charged the monthly P3,000. We were told to reformat our computers. Iyon pala, data corruption error something yung problem. They eventually told us that the problem was on their side. Galing talaga.

After 5 years of the plan 3000, our family decided to downgrade the plan to pldt dsl plan 999. Just tested dsl speed now, download speed is 24 kb/s, upload speed is 62 kb/s.

Pldt, you’re the best! Dadami ang puting buhok ko dahil sa pldt. Absolutely awesome!

They’ve effectively eliminated a lot of GOOD competitors, either through legitimate or illegitimate means. The state of broadband in the Philippines is extremely disappointing.

While the average HK student gets subsidized notebooks and gets download speeds of at LEAST 1mbps, we in the Philippines rot with expensive prices on PC parts (compare AMD CPU prices worldwide) and horrible ISPs. I refuse to believe the so-called progress of the Philippine IT industry.

At this rate, the Philippines might move speedily down the ladder of technological progress. Imagine being beaten be Vietnam or Cambodia. That would be absurd.

I belive it was naploeon who coined the phrase, “Never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by ignorance”, so I won’t ascibe malice to, for example, SmartBRO for selling, selling, selling home subscriber plans and then only providing minimal connectivity from their server to the ‘Net. Whatever the cause, they should hire some network engineers who can perform basic math, such as adding two plus two.

Basically the ISP’s are selling what doesn’t exist … the speed between an individual’s home or business does not matter if the connectivity between the ISP’s server and the “rest of the ‘Net is extremely undersized … read ‘cheap”. As long as these folks are allowed to sell what they can’t produce the situation will not improve … ir’s a legalized shell game … no different than elling tickets for a raffle and not owning the prize to give to the winner.

I’m on that plan right now and im only maxing out at 2.5mbps even on their speed test site. Called tech support about 8 times in the last two weeks to have them fix it and still nothing.

Consider yourselves warned.