Heard about this yesterday but wasn’t able to verify it until today when I visited their booth and asked for a demo. Yes, you read it right — Sky Broadband is offering up to 112Mbps residential cable internet.
Then, I saw this banner/standee that says it’s really 112Mbps and not the 12Mbps we already knew they’re offering for about 2 years now.
Yeah, I couldn’t believe myself. So I had to see and test it. So here’s the YouTube clip I took while testing it on SpeedTest:
From our tests, it was able to register 86Mbps downstream and 4.3Mbps upstream. Sky Broadband reps tell me the theoretical speed is 112Mbps down and 5Mbps up.
I tried viewing YouTube HD (720p) and it was playing really smooth and I could really see the buffer status going faster than the playback.
There’s a catch here though — the subscription costs Php19,999 per month and it’s currently only available to residents of Manansala Tower at the Rockwell Center, Makati. They sure do know which condo residents have the cash to afford this service.
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112Mbps?! wow. Hopefully they open up to businesses. Even half of that, e.g. 50mbps for 10K that would be awesome!
wow. if i can afford it & if i live in that area i’ll definitely subscribe.
@ all please give the exact location for the booth .
thanks ^_^
hi yuga – may i ask where is the exact location of the demo booth? thanks! =)
Sheesh! Crappy price… crappy availability. Nag-offer pa sila.
Internet here in the Philippines is retardedly expensive.
To compare – everything in Denmark (where Im originally from) costs about 5-10x of what it costs here – only gasoline is less than that.
Expect internet – in Denmark a 40Mbit/4Mbit is roughly 4000 pesos. A 10Mbit/2Mbit is roughly 1300 pesos. And those are not ‘up to’ but garuanteed bandwidths and all include phone lines also with free 24/7 landline calling within the country.
Singapore has 100Mbit for less than 3000 pesos….
remember that the losses of fiber optic cable is about 2 db/km so very suitable for high speed transmission.
@kyle… tama k fiber optics nga malamang ang gamit pero s ganitong speed kelangan ang single – mode n fiber optic saka ang senter core nya ay glass.
i guess this is the 20 thousand peso question: BAKIT 86 Mbps lang when you are paying 20K a month for a 112 Mbps subscription? poor infrastructure?
very impractical
if they can offer the bandwidth for TV, phone and Internet that’s good but only for Internet? no thanks
can’t they offer anything that can attract the ‘masa’ than to impress the rich people?
maganda to pang business
Uh wait.. SkyBroadband’s infrastructure sucks when it comes to downloading from torrents, right?
Very expensive. Very few can own. Maganda yan if merong 10 people ang mag share. For sure hindi naman yun sabay sabay gagamit. So share na lang din ng bayad. Sun wireless broadband new offer
Fiber optics to wala ng iba pa. Pero ibang fibre optics gamit nila, nakita ko kac ung post ni danny choo ung kinabitan xa ng internet na 100mbps fibre optics daw sabi nya pero ibang klaseng tech na gamit ung plastic lang. ECE students kung alam nyo tech na to paki elaborate please.
Maganda to kung meron ka ng servers na inaalagaan kac di mo na kelangan mag subscribe sa paid hosting. eto na mismo un. kelangan mo lang ng storage at kung ano ano pa
Hehe, if you could afford PhP 20K/mo for your DSL, you probably don’t spend that much time on the internets. Unless you got rich off the internet.
Although I guess there could be a few kids on Manansala Tower begging their rich mommy and daddy for this right now, hehe.
OK pagkakakitan yan. kung may kilalaka or relative sa rock, share kayo sa bayad tapos gamit ka ng wifi para sa netcafe mo. hehehe
For sure Up To lang yan.. kalahati lang yan. but who would notice right? hehe
in 5 years maybe that speed will only cost around 2k a month.
Here’s a hint on why they chose the location — Rockwell & Sky Broadband are both owned by the Lopezes.