I did a quick post over at PTB about Taiwan Earthquake shakes Philippine ISPs. It was in the news all afternoon.
I was uploading hundreds of photos in the gallery and what used to take me less than an hour stretched to as long as 4 hours. I couldn’t connect to YM on both PLDT DSL and Smart Wifi. I tried using Smart 3G/GPRS and got the same results.
THis STUPID INTERNET CONNECTION makes me a POOPOO.
My downloads goes down to “0.3Kbps”!!!!
What the hell are the engineers and ISP dealers doing???!!! Where the HELL is the developement going???
This is crazy ya know!!!
Message to the FIXERS OF THIS PROBLEM:
“To see is to believe: don’t talk too much, just work on it.”
its almost 15days already when that earthquake hit taiwan but i never experience any improvement at all. Damned i am losing a lot since i earned my way of living abroad, i cant get through to connect some of my clients.
its so crap…. crap crap…,
The philippines is second to none when it comes to coruption, I have been here for seven years (im not filipinoe), and I have seen what the Philippines is realy like belowe the turist highlights.
PLDT have been charging me double what I am supposed to pay (for years), for the service they actualy provide, and now this Tiawan Disaster, they are making a mint, they are still charging me 2,000 ph a month, and my connection is a shitty 4Kbps, way slower than any 56k modem that I have ever used, they have monopolised the industry in the Philippines, its upto the poeple to do something about it, if they can kick Estrada out of power, then they suely can do something about the sorry state of the countrys internet sevice.
It is really sad what has happened with our internet connection. We have a webhosting company and really. . . it takes over night to download all the support emails. We are getting more than one thousand emails (spam and support and inquiries) a day! IMAGINE…. how long we have to wait!?
I agree with what Paul said from this discussion. Let the foreign company help us in restoring our internet connection. LET US FACE IT!!! WE REALLY NEED HELP NOW……
its hard for me because im a web developer, but sometimes its ok.
It is estimated that up to one million jobs could be lost as an affect of this loss in internet.
The talk at the weekend of most foreign business men in Makati was not how are they going to survive with little or no internet it was what country they are moving their business to.
All seemed to be of the same voice what the hell is being done? Seems like nothing. When will it be back to normal? After 9 days PLDT won’t tell them.
Why is the Government not involved? Do they think internet is just for games?
Does anyone care that they are not providing internet?
Talking to a Group that included Americans, Germans and British. They all agreed if this happened any where else the government of the country would call a State of Emergency.
It was also very interesting to hear that PLDT was offered help from one of the worlds leading internet providers, to get the Philippines back to normal with in 36 hours. At no cost to PLDT.
PLDT refused the help WHY? Could they be scared that the Philippines people would see how well a foreign company could run the internet? Could it be it would have been faster and more stable?
Would it mean Filipino’s might demand a change in law to let foreign competition in and stop this monopoly
What ever it is the fact remains the problem could have been fixed by Friday and 1 million Jobs could have been saved.
this is taking too long for them to fix this crap.. good enough if they also lessen our payments…….. huh.. im like paying expensively for a connection slower than the dial-up!!
Until now as I’m blogging this one, took me 10 mins. to open this site..wtf… and damn 3 weeks of restoration? huh… my internet cafe would be dead at that time .. :)
it is quite sad that it will take 1-2 weeks for the lines to be fix… what a horrible start for new year. Bayantel is rerouting it to singapore. Wahhhhhh…
but i guess i must be thankful na safe parin tayo and only the net is affected by the quake..
mine, is quite sluggish since yesterday (hmm isnt bayantel is using some asian corp for their internet)… now i can dl anything that fast…
My globelines broadband connection just returned this afternoon. Up to now it’s as slow as dial-up. Hope everything will normalize tomorrow and that no one’s been hurt by the earthquake by any chance.
This made me think about maintaining a free-based mail. I couldn’t access my emails much more post on my blog. Though I was able to post one today, but after so much prayer that it won’t stall.
I guess the vulnerability of our connection here in the Region really needs some thinking as what was pointed out in the Inquirer.net article. We’re still having trouble here in Thailand and as the news say it might take weeks before they are able to restore the cables under the sea!
Yeah, Google (and other google-related services) were pretty much the only ones that doesn’t seem affected at all. I still get issues connecting to European-based sites like the BBC at this time.
During the outage, my connection to Google was fine. Thanks to their diverse connectivity.
operations in our office were disrupted.
could this also be the reason why i wasnt able to receive emails until now?
It’s much better now compared to yesterday. Am currently on Bayantel DSL but I still get stuck on some sites. But imagine taking half an hour to grab firefox!
Anthony: Google 404ing. Now that’s scary.
here, I waited for 5 hours before the BayanDSL was back. Kaya ginawa ko, naglaro na lang ako ng Red Alert 2 the whole afternoon
Last night I couldn’t access google with my PLDT myDSL connection. :)
call centers were paralyzed because of this event
I am using dial-up but the connection is faster today compared from yesterday…
Kaya pala I couldn’t receive & send emails to Singapore. Ang bagal din ng Wiz last night.
it really sucks… until now my PLDT myDSL has more sucker than ever. hahays.
Here in the office all lines are down. Globe, Bayantel and PLDT. Voice and Data.. so we’re paralyzed!
last night smart bro and destiny were super slow to no connection. Today, Destiny has improved a bit but really slow. I am using Lauren’s smart bro connection. Oh well.
Looks like its almost fixed to me:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Photos_Single_Internet_straw_breaks_No_Internet_access_for_Asia/blog
AsiaNet was also hit pretty hard. They cater to both Globe & Pacific Internet. It was a NIGHTMARE yesterday! Had a hard time explaining to our clients how an earthquake so far away caused service interruptions throughout the day. Didn’t even dare mention that repairs could take as long as 3 weeks!!
Yeah! Bad phone lines and bad internet connection. Because the undersea cables in Taiwan was damaged, it was estimated that it would take something like 3 weeks to fix it.
Let’s face it: as long as the call centers run fine, this government doesn’t give a crap about the Internet.