IPStar offers Satelite Internet in the Philippines

Although the the 8/4 Mbps bandwidth is nice, I am wondering about the latency. Satellite communications normally has a higher than average latency as compared to other broadband such as DSL or Cable.

8mbps @P2,500 is not bad

any development on this ipstart sat internet?

oh.. its more than pala.. hehehehe

Silver Plan
1. MSF Php 2,499.00
2. OTC
2.1. Equipment Php 45,000.00
2.2. Installation Fee 10,000.00
2.3. MSF 2,499.00
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57,499.00
Plus VAT 12% 6,899.88
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Total OTC 64,398.88

ggrrrrrrrrrrrrr… kala ko mga 5-10k yung equipment.. more than pala.. eh installation fee lang pala yun.. hehehe

Mahal naman pala can’t compete with ADSL or Broadband connection in terms of equipment installation fee!!!!

Well it is expensive but in areas that there are no isp alternatives, this can be cheap.

any development or update about this sat internet?

Engr. Edmond Madera did you get your answer yet?

Hi, I use Ipstar in a remote part of Mindanao. I use the 2,500 plan and it is genuine 512, around 128 upload. There is no other broadband there, despite people trying to use Smartbro and Globe Visibility, which basically wont work, and cost heaps of time and money to try and persevere with. It does cost a bit to set up, roughly 55,000php for my remote area. It works well in pretty bad weather, rain, wind is no problem, unless its a total deluge. Brownouts effect it as the modem is powered. Overall I am really pleased, the speed is as good as I am used to in regional Australia. I can use all features of skype, with video, watch video, Youtube etc. The upload is not bad, I can send photos, documents etc, although at that speed, obviously it takes time if uploading a lot. Say, 10 photos at a time is pretty easy. As far as service goes, Ipstar try very hard, and the staff are very polite to deal with. No internet is foolproof, even in Australia I have experienced weeks offline with big providers, and service can be a headache. Because of my isolation in the Philippines it can be frustrating if things play up, but they have always honored their agreement. At no charge they have replaced a modem, and a part on my dish, sending service people out as promptly as is possible in view of the regions accessibility. Also my lack of expertise in that part of computing can be an issue, as sometimes simple things that are easily fixed over the phone once its figured out, can be frustrating. The cost is not an issue to me in the way that I really needed the internet, and am stoked to have it. I got quotes for 4 and 5 times this much, with analogue systems and huge, inconvenient dishes, which are prone to drop outs in rain. Until I stumbled on Ipstar, which is digital and miles cheaper than anything else I looked at, especially monthly fees, I reluctantly began to figure it was a no go here. I hope this doesn’t come across as a suck up, but its just my experience, and I am grateful for being able to get good broadband on a remote island. Hope this answers some questions.

Gidday Harold, the people I deal with are Jo Jo (Joseph P. Maddatu), ****@****.*** and his cell is +6391753*****, or Giby (Giby Yalung)gi****@****.*** and his cell is +6392056*****, or Joy (Joy Bautista),****@****.*** , also there is Mean (Mean Villanueva), ****@****.*** in accounts.

Feel free to mention my name, again I’ve found them extremely honest, helpful and easy to deal with. Hope this helps.

I’m in Australia at the moment and I must say its awesome to be able to skype my partner, to talk to her daily and actually see her, and to keep our business running well. Although the brown outs/electricity supply/dam levels are a bit of an issue all over the place there at the moment, eh. All the best, Michael Bourne.

Gidday Harold, glad to help. I am in Burgos, on the northern tip of Siargao Island. I don’t have your email address, all the best Mike.

Gidday Harold, mine was over a year ago, and was a bit cheaper, mainly due to me selecting the Siver Plan, 512/128kbps. The equipment and installation fees were the same as you. Although, when I got mine the exange rate for Aussie was around 28phps!I had 4 other quotes, from other providers, which were much dearer, up to $12,000USD, and the other monthly service fees were way, way higher, over double being the cheapest. Plus the other dishes were huge, making installation a hassle. I really needed the net, so was stoked to have found Ipstar, which is also digital. None of the other providers was local, so that posed issues as well. I scoured Cebu, and everyone told me I couldn’t get satellite. I had extensive talks with Smart and Globe who had no plans to upgrade in the foreseeable future. I use Smartbro in when travelling to Surigao and Cebu. Cebu is okay speedwise, but Surigao can get pretty congested and slow. Like I said, brownouts hinder Ipstar, and radical weather does too. However even at my speed its great, as good as the Bigpond I am using now in Australia to send this. Got uyour email, all the best, Mike.

its not true the connection of ipstar is not stable espcially during rainy days, and also during pick hour your connection is to slow because it shared connection only

Gidday, I call Siargao daily from Australia on Skype, send emails with attachments and receive them, plus my partner calls me. In really heavy downpours there are issues, but then I find that it is the same regarding weather with Globe and Smart in Cebu when I am there. My partner is presently in Surigao City, and anyone who thinks they are going to rely on Smart or Globe to do any serious business is in for a rude shock. The service is well past saturation point, and is incredibly slow, plus dropouts are continual. It may appear cheaper but try downloading, or worse uploading and you will spend a fortune, get no where and waste an incredible amount of time. Do a genuine speedtest on Smart and Globe, its not remotely what is claimed. As for customer service, they’ve never heard of it. Thats just my experience over a few years, and why I am so happy with Ipstar.

Nanflexal or to anyone

Can you give me some information on this base station and relay? My Fiance is in a partially remote area in Bukidnon. She has a decent signal most of the time with smartbro. However, in the evening close the doors and windows and inside there is noting. Is there a way to boost or relay the signal from outside to inside the house, thanks

JOhn

for satellite internet service inquiry just free to contact me at rgamant****@****.***

Looking to contact Michael Bourne. In the 70s I was in Manila and I knew a Michel Bourne who was ex British Army too. If this is th same guy, I would love to contact him.

do they have website?

Please send me a quotation for 8Mbps downstream with 4Mbps upstream connection as well as the 4Mbps downstream with 2Mbps upstream connection for a three (3) years contract, asap. Including the modems, a 2 diameter satellite disc and a 6 diameter sat disc for our main site.

Question: Do you have a installed based client with a station in Manila and a station somewhere in a remote site like in Luzon, Visayas or mindanao area for me to conduct huge data transfer test, etc.

Regards,

Richard,
I.T. Officer

Hi everyone…i’m from nueva vizcaya and we have a VSAT intalled here its from IPSTAR also…i think we a common problem with romel regarding connection at peek hours…palaging n puputol ung connection…sabi nung contractor nmin that because of heavy downloading and facebook users since wla nman msyadong users, because teachers attending their class during daytime…and iilan lang ang mga users dito s school nmain… nauubos daw ung bandwidth namin? bandwidth namin daw is 3mbps….is that possible? I dont have idea kung magkno monthly fees namin….pls. need explanation…thnx in advance…

Hello sir Lito, the connection (plan) that you’re probably have come from the Retail pipeline. Ang alam ko po nakahiwalay ang pipeline ng DEPED school sa retail plan. If you’re having a retail connection and you’ve said that bandwidth should be 3Mbps (it’s a burstible SHARED bandwidth), kung dedicated bandwidth naman yung 3Mbps sobrang mahal na po yun and used mostly sa corporate.

@ Sir Alex – Sir thank you sa reply…now mejo malinaw n sken gnwa ng contractor namin dito sa internet connection namin….tsk! nkakalungkot lang n pinagkakitaan kame ng sobra…3 vsat from IpStar ang nka install dito s amin…1 sa LGU, sa Elementary and 1 din dito sa high school sa amin..ang tingin ko share kameng 3 ng bandwidth…and since every connection eh binabayaran namin…grabe…tapos hindi pa maayos ang service nila…bka kilala niyo sila…MBPS contractor….beware….salamat sir alex naliwan query ko….

ipstar????

isa kami sa subscriber ng ipstar… ito nung august 2010 ng ikinabit ng contractor ang connection ay ang lakas pa nang connection ilang minuto lang tapos na ang download at saka yung mga projects research nang mga studyanti dali lang ma download at tapos na agad pagkatapos nang ilang buwan mga bandang october 2010 medu humihina ang connection lalo na ng january 2011 parang ood na naglalakad na ang connection.. .start ka nang umaga hanggang hapon minsan di pa matapos nakoooo…. bat ganoon ang connection ng ipstar… parang hindi kami contento sa srvisyo nyo taga ipstar… kung totousin tapos na magbayad nito ang DepEd sa Ipstar…. kaya kung pd pake check naman Ipstar…….. thanks

thanks sir Alex… gagawa na daw na ng report yon school head namin…. thanks a lot… may God bless us always

Paul is that for real? From what I know is that their 1 complete set of equipment cost around 50k, but if you’ll getting the equipment used during the election before you can get a discount for that. Normally, if you apply for a subscription the shipment was included in the installation fee that they’re quoting.

check the previous comments in this blog. So its impossible that the 1 complete set cost that much!.

You visited WIT yesterday to buy 1 set of equipment? I know you can just deposit the payment instead of personally going to their office. We have our equipment installed in LIPA and it was their installer who delivered it during that time.

Sir kenneth vinson good morning. Please forward your email address for the proposal or kindly contact me thru this number 092074***** Thank you.

good day,
its from romblon. please send me your service plan and price for your internet service. you can send me by email or you can contact me in this number 091720*****

kung wlang ibang alternative, mg apply na lng kayo for residential burstable up to 1MBPS, P2000/month daw. Try nyo mg inquire sa 027269817 WIT office

Good day. I am planning to set-up my internet cafe and provide internet connectivity in our town. Can I ask the cost involved re: Internet satellite equipment and other requirement.

sir im niel bryan francisco from brgy pena, calbayog city SAMAR. tanong kulang poh kng magkano poh yung per month nang IPStar internet service. Is it true na P2500 per month with the speed of 8mbps at paano poh maka pag apply sa inyo..yng installation fee magkano din poh?

We need to have internet access into Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay. Can you give us info on how to get this started.

Michael

accrding to one of technician hu installed ipstar on our school, it’s the deped hu decide as to how much speed will each of the schools will get kya mabagal ksi shared sa isang plan lhat ng recipient schools. its also them who blocked the fb site.

sir pa send po ng quotation,may bayad po ba ang instellation,ang may signal po lang sa amin na internet eh yung smartbro plug it na usb lagi pa nadidisconnect at mabagal

Hi Abe, please need your reply very badly… my project depend on it. 090522*****

thanks
Jack

please ser up a meering dor demonor business presenration. im a potential xlient. noel at 0906-238-3869.

Sir,
Can we request the increase of the bandwidth of our inertnet sattelite connection here in San Antonio national Agro-Industrial and Vocational High Schoo.

Truly yours,
Mark anthony G. Maltizo

We are now offering IPSTAR E-KIOSK Business in Box, a new and interesting approach to deploy internet connectivity to locations where there is none. This is a solution to provide internet to far flung areas of the Philippines by a new venture to be launched in September 2012, IPSTAR SOLUTIONS PHILIPPINES CORP. If you’re interested for more info look for Mr. MJ- 0943-540-4550 .

email nman poe bout the plan kc im fron enrile, cagayan my nka ipstar na din poe d2 ask ko lng poe how much to connect ksma na poe bah dun ung satellite. mgkano poe b ah. interesado poe aq for personal use q lng nman poe

email naman po about the dtails kung magkano po connection, like q din po malaman kung pd po yan sa business. kung nd po aq nagkakamali ipstar un napanood q sa umagang kay ganda. d q lang po masyadong naintindhan ang details. gusto q po sana magakaroon ng internet shop dto sa barangay namin. hina po kc ng internet connection dto. walang wifi.eto po email q rosarowenamen****@****.*** po. wait q po email nyo..

paki email po about how much the cost sa ipstar satellite broadband including monthly plan at speed kung ilan kbps. interesado po ako.
pid****@****.***

pki forward detailed service and magkano installation fee and monthly subscription thanks

chester_bl****@****.***

Dear Frederick,

You may send your inquiry to this e-mail address: hand****@****.***

Just be ready to tell more information about your requirement by answering the following questions:

1. What upload and download speed do you require for your office?
2. How many computers do you need to have an Internet access at the same time?
3. How many staffs would share your Internet capacity?
4. When would you like to have the installation of the equipments to start?
5. How long would you be using our service?

Appreciate if you could also provide us your monthly budget for this project to help us figure out what package you should take.

Kindly tell us also whether it’s for personal or for corporate use.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Deil

ask ko lng po kung magkano installation d2 sa Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur. Personal use lng

The reason behind is competition. Once the competitor see our plan here,then it will ruin our business.

puedi po ba magtanong kung mag kano ang subscription ng inyong satelite broadband internet for residential use at 4 na computer lang ang gagamitin.

kidnly email the details of your plan im interested too.

ask lang po how much ang installation fee and how much kung avail ko yung 8mbps na plan…la pa kasi dsl line dito samin sa Calumpit Bulacan paki send nmn po ng amount…thanks

Kindly send me more information about your service including price, instalation etc.
Thank you! ma****@****.***

I want to put up a satellite internet access in Sarangani Province. Please send me the requirements and payments for setting up.
Regards
Santiago

dear
my company/internet cafe need internet connection via vsat. we have IPstar antenna and icon modem. id modem is 4c3s42554. my modem power is activ . my internet cafe need conection 2Mbt unlimite . how much the price every month. thanks for your attention

best regret

Kindly send me the quotation good for 10 unit of computers here in gonzaga, cagayan.. is your internet access is unlimited or it will be fast for only a month.. im asking this because many of ipstar user said that there is a prob.. 1st your internet is lightning fast but after a few month it will be down all the time..

Our Company has Business in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines,
an other Office is of our Company is operating in Vienna Austria.
Internet in Austria is OK, Philippines, Mamburao, absolutely out of order,
we are needing proper Internet so that we can communicate from Computer
to Computer, any our any time, permanently we have to be online.
Please let as know what you can offer to us.
Regards from Vienna, Mr. Hermann Rauzi, President of company in Philippines and Austria.

Please answer soon, its very important for us.

Really amazing information about IPSTAR is offering internet in the Philippines. Thanks for sharing and we are waiting to see Space X connecting Philippians with the globe.
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