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How’s your internet today?

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.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

32 Responses

  1. Avatar for Mike Abundo Mike Abundo says:

    Let’s face it: as long as the call centers run fine, this government doesn’t give a crap about the Internet.

  2. Avatar for ISPdestroyer ISPdestroyer says:

    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.”

  3. Avatar for CrapThisConnection CrapThisConnection says:

    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…,

  4. Avatar for keith keith says:

    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.

  5. Avatar for cristy cristy says:

    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……

  6. Avatar for redbarrack redbarrack says:

    its hard for me because im a web developer, but sometimes its ok.

  7. Avatar for Paul Paul says:

    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.

  8. Avatar for pissed-off pissed-off says:

    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!!

  9. Avatar for Joar Joar says:

    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 .. :)

  10. Avatar for vance vance says:

    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..

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