Got home this evening to find pamphlets at my doorstep from Globe. Apparently they are now offering broadband connections to residential areas with speeds of up to 2Mbps. Sweet.
Here are the DSL rates and prices:
*GenTxt Express Unlimited
Monthly Fee: Php995
DSL Speed: 384kbps
Express Unlimited
Monthly Fee: Php1,495 (promo price of Php995 just now)
DSL Speed: 384kbps
Explore Silver
Monthly Fee: Php1,995
DSL Speed: 768kbps
Explore Gold
Monthly Fee: Php2,995
DSL Speed: 2Mbps
* I think the GenTxt plan is for students. Not sure about it but looks very similar to the PLDT DSL student rate before (Plan 998 or something). And read this — a Globelines landline subscription is NOT a prerequisite to Globelines broadband.
The 2Mbps under Explore Gold plan did took most of my attention. Really, really nice to have something like that at home all by myself. And to think that only last year, I was paying GreenDot Php2,750 for a mere 256kbps connection.
mukhang nagkakaproblema na cla dahil almost 3yrs na kmi w/ 2mbps ok kaso nung Oct. 16 bigla na lang nwala lahat. ngayun lagpas ng 1month wala kaming telepono ska internet connection. box daw ang problema til now wla tlga clang mgwa that means mukhang naibenta na nla yung line namin. puro mura na inabot nla sa amin wla pa rin nangyayari. kung nangyari sa amin malamang mangyari din sa inyo. pde pla magkabentahan ng linya kaya ingat kayu dahil bka kayu ang mapili nila. pagbabayarin ka pa rin nila buwan buwan. sayang ang loyalty natin pareho lang pla cla
Since my Smart Bro connection sucks big time! Yugah can you update the rates on the post above?as i see it it is from a year ago, baka may nagbago sa rates?
thanks
been a subscriber for 3 years now sa globe dsl at wala naman problem. am from cebu city.
our family has been a long subscriber to pldt and all i can say is globelines is the lesser evil. :)
just an input for those who don’t know,
KBps and Kbps are different animals. So when you speedtest, check if the “B” is a “b” or not.
1KB is actually equal to 1024 bytes
1Kb is read as 1000 bits
8 bits is equal to 1 byte.
Which means a 512Kbps (512,000 bits/s) connection will have an IDEAL maximum download speed of about 64KBps (64 kilobytes/s).
A 56Kbps can have a maximum ideal speed of 7KBps. But since dial-up connections are on an analog line, we can expect a lot of signal interference which is why we can get about 4-6KBps max download speed or even lower.
Isa na ako sa nauto ng globelines. kunwari pa daw in-upgrade nila and speed from 384k to 512k at no additional cost pero wala namang na-improve. Sobrang bagal talaga! Haaaay, naku! Sayang lang ang P1,000 ko per month. Buwisit talaga kayong mga taga globe! Kaya tinerminate ko na rin ang globe land line ko pati lahat ng globe celfon lines naming buong pamilya pinaterminate ko na rin para makaganti kahit pano sa ginawa nilang dis-information.
@SweetKimichi,
San yang area mo?
Since Oct 8 pa yung Slowdown case ko sa Globelines. Sabi nila undergoing pa rin ang testing sa lines, kaso November na wala pa rin! Even the I-cafe in our area is affected. >:(
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mas ok pa wlng internet kysa sa 3x pagong na service ng DIGITEL sa tingin ok pa yta ang GLOBELINES mas ok pa lalo BAYANTEL. Potahh tlga kng magloko ang DIGITEL umasa na kayong a2butan ng 1 month bago maayos hayyzzzzzz bulok tlga mga pota kaung mga taga DIGITEL. GLOBELINES OR BAYANTEL pasok nmn kyo sa Virac, Catanduanes kysa mag tyaga kmi sa potng DIGITEL to dami li2pat d2 promise yan SMART BRO pa lng ang nand2. DIGITEL potang Mission at vision parng baliktad pa ata.
VISION ” To be the most preffered full service TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER IN THE COUNTRY??”
(Aba kapal nmn d2 pa lng samin ala na sa country pa kaya???
asa)
MISSION “Committed to coutryside DEVELOPMENT???????? and NATION BUILDING??????, WE PROVIDE RELIABLE COMMUNICATION ACCESS THROUGH SEARNLESS CONNECTIVITY LINKING FILIPINOS EACH AND TO THE REST OF THE WORLD??????????????”
(220 B YN?? POTAH NMN OHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! KAPAL.)
My line is working very good.
Potah. Since nagpakabit ako ng Globe Broandband never pa ako nakatikim ng maayos na connection. I’m paying 3000 pesos up to 2MB daw. eh madalas pa na below 700 ang download speed ko, sumasawsaw pa hanggang 100. lugi talaga. dapat ako pa bayaran ng globe dahil sa sakit ng uli. tang ina nila. tuwing tatawag laging inaayos. 2 buwan na akong tawag ng tawag. letse!
i am a GLOBELINES BROADBAND subscriber and user in BACOLOD CITY. it was installed last JULY 2006. since then in our area in the downtown city, i am experiencing intermittent connections or frequent disconnections during the night from 6PM to 6AM UNTIL NOW OCTOBER 17, 2006… everyday i called the Globe Hotline and still they cant fix it…ok gtg baka ma DC naman ulit eto!
i am getting discouraged on subscribing to DSL, i hear a lot of negative reviews on all DSL services, except perhaps SKYdsl. maybe i have to research more… the comments here really helped me. ^_^
Bro, silverwynx try this site…
http://www.pcpitstop.com/
This is dependable compared to other sites.
tol paano ba magcheck ng uploading speed?
anghirap eh, ni hindi ko malaman kung bakit ambagal, na try ko na sa ibang ISP ang computer ko ok naman ang uploading nila, mabilis xa indeed. kaya im pretty much sure na nasa connection at serbisyo ng globelines ang problema
gosh!!!! i was so shock three days na ako d maka upload ng maayos!! and then when you try to call their costumer service, sobraaaaaa makaktulog ka na lng sa kaaantay!!! grabeh naman i am paying 1995 php for the faast connection i needed, it says will have a great access download and upload, and yet i dont see any good things happened. their system went unstable for a month or so, giving the subscribers the reason of updating, etc etc etc for the betterment blah blah blah, and yet, no improvement all!!!
i was thinking that if im going to pay for a higher “plan” i can have that fast connection, they keep on advertising, is it really the “BROADBAND” you want us to know? and the things that you keep on emphasizing on your ads? pag tumawag ka naman sa costumer hotline, tutulo na lng ung laway mo sa kaantay na may sumagot, sa tawag mo, imagine it took 32 minutes for me to get to their service “hotline” kuno, cguro kaya nga hotline, kasi umuusok na yung ilong ng mga subscribers sa galit at yung tenga niyo sa mga whines ng mga tao!!
ambagal bagal ng downloads and uploads, and then mga representatives na walang modo, sounds impatient and not competent enough para mapunta sa trabaho nila, baka nga d marunong mag troubleshoot ng computer itself, just reading a mere script!!! i wonder why they dont even know how to give instructions to their calling client. pakiayos naman ng connection ko i dont pay for silver explore para makakuha lng ng connection that is slower than a dial up connection!!!!!
NAULIT NAKO SA INYO. BAG O PAKO NAGPATAUD SA GLOBE UNYA GUBA. UNSA MAN INTAWON NI. GAPANGILAD RAMAN MO. IULI NA LANG ANG AMONG CONTRATA UG BAYAD UY. DI MAN SAD TA KAPANGHIMOLOS ANI UY. KAMO RAMAN. WALAY AU NING GLOBELINES.
Globelines really suckssss……..
…. wala talaga ang globelines… always nalang inaayos ang kanilang mga box’s…. tang _ _ _…… wala na bang ibang answer sila???? there freak!!!!
Just discontinued a globelines data line yesterday before it started…
Their field technicians sucked and doesnt follow schedule instructions. they cannot configure/activate my dsl for 2 sessions. Customer service sucked too, they say “sir, activated na DSL nyo” the other one says in a different session ” sir, di pa activated DSL nyo..” same for their tech support that you have to wait for 30 mins or more for a call…
Im glad I ceased the service before it begins… they sucked at startup what more when we are in their “holding period”
ok naman pati ip nila maka shared ako sa laptop ko
ang bilis ng globe grabeh…….
rewind, if globe told you that the broadband service on your area is already full, there’s really pretty much nothing you can do but wait. or you could constantly call them and check for yourself.
Thanks Ed, i’ll try to do that.. but it will cost me.. im in a lock-in period.. globelines keep on advertising their broadband and extending their promo period, for the past two months im following-up my application but to no avail… why do globelines do that and not expanding the service in my area..?