Wi-Tribe doubles Plan 1998 speed to 4Mbps

Double the speed. No connection. hmmm….

Been using WI-Tribe for a year now and I can give it a satisfactory rating. Its much faster and reliable than Globe and Smart in our area (Cubao). As far as I remember, the double speed free upgrade was offered October last year for new and existing subscribers. Unlimited bandwidth was given a couple of months before.

@James : Agree! I have been using wi-tribe for almost 6 mos now and i’ll rate that 4/10 (10 as the highest

@Benchmark : With regards to Globe, it has a bandwidth cap of 800mb. Wi-Tribe has almost the same setup. Once you have received a data of total of 4GB, expect slow connection.

This is not meant for movie downloads. Works fine with online games, but suggest not for playing DOTA.. hehe

If your into browsing and simple video streaming, you will be fine for this service, but not heavy downloads.

For heavy downloads, I suggest get PLDT instead, most reliable internet connection, too bad it doesn’t have phoneline in our area.

Used wi tribe for a day… Pinaputol ko kaagad… They told me to expect a slower connection sa first day around 512kbps…

our house has 3 bars speed was .00kbps

Is it only available in Luzon? Not Visaya?

Had Wi-Tribe since it was released, and I can’t say it was satisfactory. Our first plan ever was Destiny’s 512kbps, at 1k a month. We heard about this, and we were excited to try it. It was a bit faster than Destiny, but it was much less reliable. After a few months, they raised the cap (they worded it to make it SEEM like there was no limit) and “doubled” the speed. After a few more months of just barely scraping by, we finally decided to get Sky Cable’s 6mbps plan at 4k a month. It was a godsend. Most of the time I got 700+KB/s when downloading games on Steam, and I could watch HD videos on youtube without buffering! Best of all, there was no limit. (There probably is a limit, but I haven’t reached it yet. Which must mean it is a pretty big limit. ;) )

But, when I purchased Starcraft 2, I was very surprised to see that I was getting sub-par speeds to the North American server. So, in an extreme act of desperation, I plugged in the Wi-Tribe thingy, and I was getting a lagless connection to North America’s Battle.net servers.

Weird, isn’t it? :)

I’ve been using WI-tribe for almost 2 years now.

Before the so-called DOUBLE-SPEED, it was really fast in our area (Cubao, QC). I rarely experience downtime with their services (which is what I like most). I was able to reach 800kbps speed when it was just a 1mbps.

BUT, when they started the “Double-Speed” crap, I rarely get 500kbps on my speed test (http://2wire.com/bandwidth), which is the most weird thing I’ve seen.

I noticed also the 50 to 70ms of LATENCY increase to the North American Servers I am playing compared to when I was just in 1mbps speed. I also noticed that they are using “Speed-On-Demand” (maybe), coz each time I’m downloading something, The latency on the servers where I’m playing are lower than when I’m not downloading anything. Even in the PH servers where I used to have 50-80ms latency only, is now 125-150ms.

So to summarize, they were great before the double-speed, but afterwards, I’m thinking to switch my ISP now.

para sa mga wala pang serbisyo ng Wi-tribe Please spare your self from anger, pain, asar, at inis. Huwag nyo na balakin kumuha nito. Pangit ang serbisyo ng Wi-tribe

tama… super bagal. pano ba paputol… bahala ang witribe na yan di ko sila babayaran im not paying for this… di ako magbabayad sa .51mbps which is ang ipinangako nilang speed is more than 1.5mbps grrr sayang lang 1k per month ko kung itutuloy ko toh