Top 10 cities in the Philippines with ‘fastest’ Internet

what? dito sa amin sa Pangasinan umaabot ng 20mbps, tsk kung pwede ko lang sana sabhin un ano hehe kaso wala eh, ok pa pagong umusad kesa connection namin eh.sana matuloy na yung 3rd na telco para mapressure naman ang globe at smart!

This is average speed of all people na nagspeedtest sa mga lugar na to. So depende pa rin to sa subscription ng mga tao sa lugar. Tsaka kung subscribed ka naman sa mabilis na speed then it doesn’t matter how fast the city’s average is. Isa pa, hindi nila sinabi kung broadband lang to. Pero malamang collective results ng wired at wireless (2g, 3g, 4g) speed tests ito.

Please take note that most of the ISPs are based in NCR, therefore seeing most of the results coming from those areas. Madalang lang na makikita mo na may mga provinces from there. The result, therefore cannot represent simply the cities with the fastest internet connections.

I am from Davao City, but my IP address geolocates in Quezon City (BayanTel). Globe also is a culprit of it, with IP adresses geolocated in Cebu and Manila.

So buong pasay nagahahati ng 11mbps? Makes sense now….

11mbps na ang pinakamabilis sa atin? Baka yan pa yung pagkamahal na P20k per month na home fibr ha? Sana dalhin ng google yung wifi service nila para dumami ang telco competitors sa bansa.

for my 5mbps plan i got 600-800kbps actual download speed but when capping is occur, i only got 100-150kbps

Mbps(Megabits per second) kasi ang ginagamit ng ISP’s dito samin embes na MBps(MegaBytes per second) na sya namang nakikita natin as actual download speed. Sabi nga ng mga naunang mag-comment eh 1 byte=8 bits kaya kung ang ino-offer ng ISP eh 2Mbps eh 250KBps nalang yun. Tapos kadalasan nasa 60% lang nun ang average speed na ibibigay sayo which is nasa 150KBps. Tapos naka-open WiFi Hotspot nyo at may 5 na naka-connect. Ibig sabihin eh maghahati kayo sa 150KBps. Kalalabasan nun 50KBps nalang yung napunta sayo. Tapos nakadepende pa yung download speed mo sa layo at bilis ng server na pagda-downloadan mo. Kung 80% ng average speed mo ang maintain eh di 40KBps nalang yun.
Ang pinakamagandang solution dito eh may pumasok na bagong ISP, mag-offer ng mas mataas na download speed sa mas mababang halaga para mapilitan yung dating ISP’s na ibaba din yung price nila.

Philippine telcos make Verizon and AT&T look like saints (hint: they’re not). I can’t believe I actually want them to be in the country, but the local fare is just so bad that these guys look good in comparison. Local big businesses know Filipinos have no choice, so they do whatever the heck they want. Who runs the country? Best *illusion* of free market and democracy ever.

Foreign competition isn’t even ALLOWED to come in. Protectionist laws exist whose only purpose is to enshrine the permanency of privately-owned local business by keeping all REAL COMPETITION from even stepping onto the playing field, and simply buying out the smaller startups who are ultimately relying on the same backbone you own anyway.

That’s why you don’t see urgency or importance on the side of the ISPs to improve stability, speed, and pricing. They know you have no one else to turn to but the same (ultimately) 1-2 entities running the show, as a prime example of the perversion of democracy.

Google et al can’t come to your rescue here even if they wanted to (they might, actually, since this area is also a great place to lay physical backbone down). The laws need to be changed first, but good luck with that.

Ours is the slowest or sometimes no signal at all for days so our plan payment to globe will become expensive instead of paying cheaper for the plan.. bcoz instead of our monthly payment devided by 30 days you can only devide it by 10 or 15 days of good internet signal…
Jolo, Sulu, Philippines

fast are speeds between 100 and 200 mbps

Kinda bias review, what service provider and plans,

45mpbs po yan.

Kahit saan pa ang location ninyo, mabagal pa din dahil sa mga Facebook users.