I really wanted to hear from you guys all of the visitors ... please tell me what you think of your own ISP here in Davao City and where is your exact location...
The reason:
our own ISP provider PLDT DSL is not reliable for the past 3 weeks specially on the weekend starting Friday evening onwards then the technician will come to our house either Sunday afternoon or Monday afternoon ... imagine NO INTERNET everyTIME YOU NEED IT THE MOST all of us (family members are at home)
In our office we use SmartBro and PLDT DSL... SmartBro was fine for the past one month but slow... PLDT DSL has intermittent connection ever since December 2007...
In our house it started ever since they have changed our username and password because they have changed from the old connection (AT&T using Alcatel) or whatever that is... to new one which I really don't know why the hell they have done that!? changing from reliable to unstable ISP connection
Whenever you call PLDT technical support 171 waaaaaaaa they have so many reason to make you wait... and wait...
Anyway, Guys I really want to hear from you...
what is your ISP provider?
the Speed?
Downtime, How does the Tech support handle your complains?
and of course How much is your monthly bill?
Hope to hear your feedbacks ^_^
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Reviews of ISP in Davao City
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David Santos
Hi Alice, nice blog....!!! God days...
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Hi there Avee here, I added you to my blog roll already. thanks for dropping by to my blog.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I was using Smartbro when I was still in PI so far I did not have any problem.
I'm still currently using SmartBro, price is expensive if you're going to compare the speed. Others have almost same price but faster. planning to change ISP soon.
ReplyDeleteam not sure about the ISP technology around davao, but smartbro and pldt and the like almost offers the same internet quality compared at hand, am not sure if you have digitel and bayantel around your area as well, you might want to check them out, they also offer internet connection to provinces.
ReplyDeleteone thing you could enquire more from ISP provider or internet connectivity source when subscribing, is about their guaranteed CIR rate or guaranteed internet speed that is. some tech kiddies call it as the allocated internet bandwidth pool you are sharing with or making use of. this is like one piece of cake (your allocated internet bandwidth pool for your connection type) divided by all serving plates (internet users from your connection type).
most ISPs also practices contention rate, as in 1:4 like one person sharing a bandwidth pool with 3 other users inside that pool. some does not apply these practices. moreover, even if they offer you a 1:1 (1 is to 1) contention rate, the ISP's backbone is another thing to consider in terms of internet speed. you could find visual trace route to differentiate backbone map routes of different ISP around your area, one of nice route map that i heard is the one that goes out from Phil. to Japan or Singapore, via Ortigas route. check davao's route for that.
there are a lot of factors affecting your internet speed, a lot of them to mention, the bottomline is that ISP is not only the major source, end users are part of it as well, in fairness to ISPs part.
internet in philippines is not as fast as internet in other countries, it is not as scarce compared to other countries. other countries specially US/European connection can provide cheap and real broadband and highspeed internet, wherein you can download one DVD in just 1 hour more or less, that's almost 4GB of download file size. we pinoys are just lucky to have internet connectivity from almost around the city corners, while other 3rd countries are unfortunate to have these goodness, atleast.
in USA, they give out free internet connectivity trials from 30 to 90 days. you could try to ask your new provider to give you maybe 3 days trial before any full payment can be made, so atleast this let you experience their so-called fastest internet link - though am not sure if you have this in davao.
goodluck and nice happiness post too!
wow Vertito,
ReplyDeletevery well said and thank you for that informative comment (^_^)
have a nice day always
Very good Vertito.
ReplyDeleteI've been to many Asian countries and we are fortunate enough to have a better connection than them. ISPs are hesitant to upgrade or spend more money for the backbone connection especially that the number of subscriber aren't that high and only few ISP running the show in your area, hence no tight ISP competition at all. In India were some people are rich and some are really poor, they have a lot of choices. They can get cheap but slow and high latency internet connection if budget is an issue and for those who can spend a bit more are lucky enough because they have so many ISPs. They have more than hundred ISPs to choose from.
http://www.indiaonestop.com/ISPS.htm
So far, the cheapest and fastest dsl internet connection is in Korea and Japan. In Japan you can get less than 4,000 yen or less than 40 USD for VDSL connection that have 100mbps up and downlink.
http://www.ntt-east.co.jp/product_e/05/index.html
https://asahi-net.jp/en/service/tepco/mansion.html
Nobody from Davao really answered your questions. I hope somebody from Davao will give us more answers.
Thanks,
Harry
wow Harry!,
ReplyDeletethanks for giving your insights about ISP around the world (^_^)
yeah you got it right nobody from Davao really answered maybe because it matters on where location and place in Davao, I'm not quite sure but that is what I heard so far not all ISP here are good it really depends on the place.
We recently connected to globe at maa and its supposewd to be 1mb but barely is, the connection is intermittent and drops out regularly and have to reset the damn router which takes about 5 mins each time. If you leave it idle for 5 mins or more then 90 percent of the time you lose the connection and have to reset - what an appalling service.
ReplyDeleteI got it for work in Australia and have given up on it. Its so bad i have been tempted to throw the router at the wall several times. Its a total disgrace. Love to hear any better options for maa area.
Steve Reagan,
ReplyDeletethank you so much for your opinion that was informative... I was wondering why nobody wants to connect with Globe and most of them wanted smart bro... maybe that was the reason.
Thanks.
I can tell you that www.isp.com is a bad place to get internet service from. They do not deliver what they sell you. My download speed for DSL is 219kbps when it should be 550kbps. The Upload speed is 181kbps when it should be 208kbps.It also has intermittent connection so you have to reset the router box. Also they lie a great deal and when you ask to cancel your service they won't and just keep charging your credit card. You have to file a dispute with your credit card company, file a report with the attorney generals office in your state and the state of Utah where isp.com is located and send copies of the advertisement that lured you into their services, copies of all your correspondence and a copy of their terms of service agreement. It would be the same for any server that your have issues with and want to pursue legal action on.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your insights Ms. June Star your comment will help other readers in this blog (^_^)
ReplyDeleteIf I may ask where exactly are you located in Davao Ms. Alice? I'm from Catitipan. I am using Bayantel and it's great.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeletemy name is Aice not Alice (^_^)
I'm here somewhere along Bajada
if your near lanang, get bayantel and if ur somewhere near downtown, get smartbro/pldt.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite near between Victoria Plaza, Gaisano Mall and University of Southeastern Phils. so do you think I have to get smart bro or pldt?
ReplyDeleteHello.. We live in Nova Tierra and have Sky cable.. 1 mb.. Sometimes its unstable. But most of it is ok.. We also have skytv.. Very bad picture quality on our Samsung 52 inch screen.. trying to find something else.. Buuuuuuut
ReplyDeleteI am using PLDT Internet at Home pero hindi siya gaanong stable. Nawawala siya ng ilang oras sa umaga at hapon at mas lalo na pag 9 pm to 12 pm so hindi worthy na gamitin. I plan to change my ISP na nga eh. Do you know a good ISP na? Maganda ba ang Smartbro or Globe Broadband dito sa Davao? Bago lang kasi ako dito. Please reach me at my blog http://convergingideas.wordpress.com/. :)
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ReplyDeletewe have the same problem.