While WiMax has been introduced in the country for some time now, people are still complaining it’s not really fast. So, yes, 1MBps isn’t really fast but can we really afford 10Mbps right now?
Both Liberty Telecoms and Globe Telecom are offering 4G or WiMax but for the most part, the packages are between 512Kbps and 1Mbps. And as far as I know, each one of the Globe WiMax towers is maxed out at 8Mbps. If ever Globe offers an 8Mbps plan in the future, I think it will be in the Php5,000 range.
Come to think of it — if telcos will offer 10Mbps WiMax for Php5k, will people switch to it?
The only reason I can think of now why they’re not offering really fast connection packages is that they don’t want to eat into their own market. Probably the same reason why a 384mL can of Coke is more expensive than a 384mL bottle of Coke (nomadic vs. fixed).
So, if you’re looking for a 10Mbps or 100Mbps connection, you need to shell out Php3,995 (10Mbps) and Php14,995 (100Mbps). I think that 10Mbps for Php3,995 is a sweet deal. Problem though is that Globe only offers the service to posh villages like Forbes Park, Serendra, Bel-Air Village and Urdaneta Village. I believe PLDT has a similar offering in Alabang for a number of years now.
For the rest of us that’s not rich enough to live in those areas, we’ll have to settle with 12Mbps of Sky Broadband.
I remember, about 5 years ago, it was great news to see ZPDee Cable offering 64Kbps for only Php690 a month. Today, for the same amount, you get up to 2Mbps. That’s 30 times the speed for the same price. If we follow that trend, I reckon we could get 60Mbps for the same price by year 2015.
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wimax Globe broaband 1k bayaran baka meron kayo idea maayos ito
signal Connection Status Connected
Connect Frequency 2622000KHz
Upload Data Rate 182 bytes/sec
Download Data Rate 144 bytes/sec
Signal Strength 100%
ALL SC Link Quality 97%
1/3 SC Link Quality 100%
ALL SC CINR 29.56dB
1/3 SC CINR 33.11dB
RSSI -61.75dBm
UL_FEC 16-QAM(CTC)1/2
DL_FEC 64-QAM(CTC)3/4
BSID 00:00:1B:D8:28:20
POWER 13.00dBm
Statistics Upload Download
Ethernet Bytes 194.683MB 1.091GB
contento na sana ako 126 kbps bakit biglang bumagal ang connection after 2 months naging 26kbps-35kbps ayaw na nya tumaas nagbabayad naman ako ng maayos kahit walang collector ako nlang pumumpunta please help ty
Planning to buy a new one 4g for internet use. Possible ba ito sa remote area such as in sampalok quezon. Need internet badly there but no signal avail for other network.
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aries, same with me , okey na sakin 100+kbps kahit pa up to 2mbps kuno ang service. kung madaling araw humahataw nman sya 300 [yes hataw na yon :/ ]. dati joke nila pag wala nang sun, wala ka ng signal, ngayon pag sun-up na gapang ka na – as in 35kbps- di kya gawin nalang ‘dawn’. more than a decade ago i can manage with my easycall’s few hours a month plan. I would really scrimp on my usage. i would prep netscape by opening all at once a screen full of https then disconnect 5 to 10 minutes later. I would save d pages for later reading/viewing at my own leisure. Now with 2mbps 24/7 i have to sacrifice my sleep hours at dawn if i want to browse or challenge my patience at daytime with < 10 pages to open!
In less than a month tapos na 2 yr holding period ko. Balak ko pa naman 4G, di kaya pareho lang yan ng up to 2mbps ko ngayon. Okey lang yung may cap, pero sana may GUARANTEED minimum kbps kahit 1/10th lang ng 2mbps. di na nga heavy user/downloader eh suffer pa rin imbes na surfer. At yung cap nila [5Gb?] eh applied for the whole 2 yr lock-in period na ata, imbes na monthly nare-reset. Even then, di naman uamabot ng 5 G ang downloads. Kahit pa nga 1Gb/month cap o fair usage okey pa rin basta maGUARANTEE man lang MINIMUM kbps – never mind the 'up to 2mbps'. Sana silang mga service provider ang maging fair. attention Sen Enrile, DTI & NTC…
Wireless really sucks. Stability and bandwidth, SMTP blocking are not only the problems. Globe and Smart wireless offerings both degrade quality of hi-res photos. They put some photo optimizer in between to cut down on bandwidth. For me this is cheating. Globe used to at least offer the capability to download the hires version of an image by hovering your mouse for seconds, but that has changed recently and the image quality downgrading seem to be more permenent now. Smartbro have followed suit.
Recently, the most notorious problem is smartbro’s gateway timeout problem. This is a manifestation of a highly congested network.
THere is more. Pag HTTP ang protocol .. sobrang bagal. Try nyo mag non HTTP, like TORRENT, and its pretty stable. Guess what ano problema? Not the telcos but yung mga bobo nilang network engineers.
Well i guess the reason why we are all being abused by these telcos is becuase no one among us files cases against them for e.g. false advertisement, fraud, etc. If we can all file sort of class action civil suit against these mudafakers, magigising din mga yan.
first month my kb/s is more than 100.after 2 months its peg at 35 kb/s. globe wimax is cheater.
I paid 500.00 php upon installation of globe internet with a modem set up and antenna at rooftop.The plan is 995.00 php per month. My first bill (customer account no. 839823962 – o.r. date 12-12-10) after a month is 1,226.00 which I paid at the globe office G.S.C. – For the first 2 months my internet speed is variable at more than 100 kb/s. Sometimes it goes down below 100. After two months the speed is variable at 0kb/s – 57kb/s and most at 35kb/s. No matter how I configure my pc it doesn’t go any faster.I removed the firewall and anti-virus but still slow. I went to the globe office to tell the problem. They said its wimax. I’m paying 995.00 php monthly for 1mb but I’m receiving only 35kb/s. The technician who visited me at home explained that the subscription is 1mb at the maximum but not necessarily that I’ll receive fixed 1mb speed everyday, that I understand. BUT who needs 35kb/s in torrents? I think globe must initiate orientation to consumers who wants to subscribe that it’s like this and like that. The globe office told me I have to pay 2,500.00 php if I have to terminate my subscription early. I would like to try dsl. Ayaw ko po mapag iwanan. Hoy mga engineers jan sa wimax paki adjust naman ng ip ko. Huwag nyo i block. Thanks.
Blocked: 124.6.181.117:12369
IP Address: 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Where i can buy globe4G in rosales pangasinan??????
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i planed to upgrade my wimax connection to wimax 4g p795.00 worth. is this really faster? because my current connection is so slow. only 40 kb/s download i paid for 512 kb/s. can anyone give me some tips bfore i upgrade becauxe i also planed to terminate my connection . im from zamboanga.
Ang Wimax mabilis oo mabilis pa ang Pagong una sinabi nila na hack daw yung dating net nila kaya nagpalit ako sa 4g kasi yun ang sabi nila sa akin mabilis sa unang week maganda 1mbps pero pagkatapos non nasa 200kbps nalang san na yung mga Promo nila na pagka ganda-ganda?Wala ba karapatan ang mga costumer ng Globe na magreklamo kesyo meron puno kaya mabagal ehh nong pagkabit nila ng antenna nila mabilis naman pero pagkatapos ng ilang weeks ayun na bagsak na ang speed nila then papuntahin nila ang technician nila sasabihin babalik lang daw ang speed ng net.Nakailang taon na din ako sa Globe Wimax na to pwede na gawing album ang mga reklamo ko sa office nila.mga Ampness talaga tong Globe na to mga kurakot/mandurugas 1mbps ang binabayaran tpos ang service mas mabilis pa ang dial-up.
Anybody here knows what the frequency bandwidth of wi-tribe is for both 2G and 4G? I read that they have frequency of 700Mhz which means it’s 2G..
kayo naman masyado manglait sa globe
matulin naman sya pag gabi
matulin naman sya pag di mo ganong ginagamit
matulin naman mag YOU TUBE wag mo lang ii-play
matulin nman sa YM wag mo lng i-open ang video call
matulin naman sya unang buwan
matulin lang sila pag maniningil na
pag singilan na mabilis pa sa 100Mbps
naka 1mbps ako
noong una 136kbps download speed
ngayon 20kbps minsan 36kbps at 40kbps
sabi nila sumagad ka na sa limit
may download limit lang yan
pero babalik din daw with 24 ours
tip ko sa inyo para 2mulin yang wi max nyo
wag nyo muna gamitin 1 month
nakakabushit di ba
>>> Anybody here knows what the frequency bandwidth of wi-tribe is for both 2G and 4G? I read that they have frequency of 700Mhz which means it’s 2G
What you are asking doesn’t entirely make much sense – here in the Philippines 900/1800/2100 MHz are used most commonly for cellular systems. WiMax typically uses 2.5 GHz here but this is arbitrary as there is no defined carrier frequency in the standard. Whatever spectrum the telco’s can get, they’ll take – and they have lobbied the government for chunks of it above 2GHz.
2G/3G/4G are largely meaningless, these are mostly just advertising slogans.
I am from the US where connections are in mBs. Here in the Philippines the connections are in mbs. B=bytes and b=bits. 1 byte=8 bits. So if you get a Globe or Smart connection with a top speed of 2mbs the maximum download rate would be 250kBs. You will never see anything download that fast here. You can’t even expect to see 170kBs very often. m=1000k. Go to speedtest.net if you want to see what you are actually getting.