At the Bayan Telecommunications official forum, the indicated monthly internet cap for subscribers is said to be at 100GB per month though this has not been completely confirmed since the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) has not specified it.
The forum posting (post was removed by BayanTel; Google Cache here) was allegedly lifted from the official documents (but we could not find the original one):
1. What is the monthly bandwidth limit per subscriber?
The limit per subscriber ay any given month must not exceed 100 gigabytes.
2.Why is there a bandwidth limit?
bayanDSL must ensure the quality of service of all subscribers within a vicinity. If a single subscriber exceeds the allowable bandwidth limit at 100 gigabytes per month, then this directly affect other subscribers within your vicinity.
3.What are my options? What if I need a higher bandwidth plan?
To upgrade your bayanDSL residential plan, please call 449-2000.
To convert to a corporate plan, please call 449-9999.
4.How will I know if I have exceeded my limit?
You can monitor your bandwidth usage at ” www.bayan.com.ph/aup/usage ” using your existing bayanDSL username and password.
If this is true, their cap is the most generous among the others we’ve checked before.
We’ll be getting official statement from Bayan regarding this cap and if indeed this is imposed. Will update once I get their reply.
To those who are saying this is a lot, please remember that it’s monthly. That would translate to only 3.33GBs a day.
To compare, on an “unlimited” 1mbps plan, you should be able to transfer 617GBs per month maximum. Let’s say speeds are slow and you only ever get half of 1mbps, that would still mean you should have 308.5GBs.
enjoy my mom’s legacy. Durr hurr.
“100 GB PER MONTH?! OA NA NGA YUN EH! I DOUBT IF SOMEONE CAN EVEN CONSUME 1 GB A DAY! Movie DL usually runs around 750MB-1GB+ depending on format. But that is MORE than enough, anyone protesting to that is a crazy maniac living his/her life streaming porn or doing online shows 24/7. Define KURACHA?! ;p HATS OFF BAYANTEL!!!!”
@scraven_mark
You must be on dial-up or high on something. I consume at least 8GB a day.
Dude, whatever you’re smoking, let me have some.
@Herp I agree. This article is a telco pandering one but this whole blog is a telco pandering one, not that it shouldn’t be given its advertisers, but readers should be aware if they aren’t already. The sad thing is most of the the commenters just followed along like sheep.
I have to say that I have not had a problem with PLDT in terms of capping. I do have 2 top tier plans and use binding to tie them together, but I do a couple terabytes a month sometimes and never been capped.
wtf??
para saming mga torrent users hindi sapat yang 100gb per month!
Hurr durr 100gb too big… Filipinos still thinking small disgust me.
Read this essay “A Heritage of Smallness” by Nick Joaquin, on how that thinking small mentality keeps us shitty. http://pdff.sytes.net/ar/t3521.htm
@durr, are you? humorous comment po yun. hindi po ako tanga if that’s what your implying.
@Paul, forum po ba ni bayantel ba yun?
i think hindi mapapansin ng nakakarami ang effect ng bandwidth capping.
@YuYU
Bat magiging typo? Are you still living in the 1990s? 100gb is a fucking small amount. I’ve got 2 terabytes of local storage which I filled in within month.
baka typo lang. baka 10GB or 100MB talaga yan dapat? lol.
As of this writing they took down the forum posting about the bandwidth cap.
Here’s the Google cache version for those who haven’t seen it:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.bayan.com.ph/forum/yaf_postst5476_What-is-the-policy-on-Internet-Bandwidth-Usage.aspx
There’s no bandwidth limit per month for BayanDSL users. :)
It seems to only affect those who really use and abuse the web. The rest of the idiots commenting like this is godsent don’t really give a rat’s ass since they are still thinking from 5 years ago. This isn’t a sign of good customer service but an even stupid excuse for worst customer service.
Cap or not, the ISPs here offer crap. The Philippines offering speeds of price of about a thousand pesos per 1Mbps? Then a cap? Idiocy. We have the tech and the architecture to support more than that. We have the one of the lowest speeds in Asia and in the world. In other countries, pay the same amount we do here and get speeds at least 5x faster. Our ISPs are a big bloody joke. Can’t even get decent video streaming here.
The NTC should not have intervened and issued a short sighted directive. The NTC should have left the issue to market forces / competition. The NTC is should not be the telco’s representative in government, they should be the one to mediate.
“Twitter: Albert
replied on Jan 3rd, 2011 at 1:08 am (28)
IF PLDT adds a cap to their DSL service, what will happen to their watchPOD program?”
They’re probably gonna charge us separately for that. lol
Twitter: scraven_mark
replied on Jan 3rd, 2011 at 4:04 am (30)
“100 GB PER MONTH?! OA NA NGA YUN EH! I DOUBT IF SOMEONE CAN EVEN CONSUME 1 GB A DAY!”
Are you still living in 2002? I can use up 5-10gigs a day without even trying…
Globe tattoo/supersurf for postpaid has no cap according to a cs rep. I even hit 300kbps dl speeds at off peak hours.
They should not implement such bandwidth cap as it will limit the downloads for most users. Yoo bad news for everyone using their service.
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miggy
i think somebodys trying to brag about his DL capabilities, at 80gb ++ a month thats 2.4 terabyte for three months alone. I think his selling those DL in quiapo LOL….”
That’s 240 GB you idiot.
if you want it in terabyte then 0.24 TB
appx. 1,000 GB = 1 TB
“but in reality is not exist.. we all know that here in the Phil. the normal bandwidth for personal connection is 1Mb which is 3gb/month. How could BayanTel set that kind of part Huge connection in just a month….”
3gb/month “normal”.. no fucking retard thinks that’s normal.
100mb a day = 20 music videos (which you can view in 1 hour and 30 minutes)
100mb a day = 100 high res pictures (which you can view within an hour)
You can’t even stream a full length low-res(300mb) movie in a day with that shitty bandwidth cap.
“i think somebodys trying to brag about his DL capabilities, at 80gb ++ a month thats 2.4 terabyte for three months alone. I think his selling those DL in quiapo LOL….”
You’re fucking stupid. You don’t even know how to compute this shit.