Utilities & Mobile Internet in Valencia

I live in main Valencia area and the two internet providers here are Globe and PLDT. For Globe I have upto 7Mbps dl and 1 Mbps ul speed with a data limit of 80g per month. This is an old plan but Globe has different packages now. For PLDT, am not sure what options they have for residential areas in Valencia yet. For those living out of coverage areas, Bayantel offers a special package 1mbps dl&ul speed (no data capping) but price depends on agent (friend who lives in Timbao, mountain area between valencia and bacong, pays 3500 php per month) and you can opt for higher speed for an additional fee.

 

Just to correct the terminology: "Meg" is short for Megabyte or MB (in this case: per second). It gets routinely confused with Megabit or Mbit (per second). The problem with that is that connections are denominated in Mbit, and there are 8 bits in one byte.
Ergo, a 20 Mbit connection would promise 20/8=2.5 MB/s download speed.
Equally, a 50 Mbit connection equals roughly 6 MB/s .

 

To expand on what you are saying so that some may better understand;

Difference between mbps and mb | Difference Between

Disk Space : Size In Megabytes (MB) - NewSprout

 

Here are the links/contact details to the updated packages per internet provider: (Some high-end plans are not available in Valencia due to the facility so limit yourselves to the 20 Mbps plans if in Valencia)

Globe: Compare Globe Home & Business Broadband Plans – Check Promos 2017
PLDT: PLDT HOME Fibr | High Speed Fiber Optic Internet Connection
Bayantel: (Coming soon... I still have to get the agent's name and number but he lives in Valencia, his house has the antennae on top of a mango tree near Bong-ao High School)

 

Update those who are in Valencia, PLDT came to my house today to offer shifting from GLOBE to PLDT. Free installation and 50% off for 6 months. PM me, ill provide you the number. This is for PLDT fibr accounts. Speedtest they showed were awesome!

 

I am more interested in your own speed tests you make after installation! Some providers back in Oz pulled a swifty back in the days when ADSL first hit the scene, cannot quiet remember what it was but something about how they connected (I think to their own connection or something like that) which fudged the figures to appear unbelievably fast.

Try SpeedTest.net after you are connected and try first thing in the morning before the local Internet Cafes open, around midday when everyone is checking their Facebook and again later that afternoon when everyone gets home from work/school... I have found quoted speeds are more likely later in the night around 11pm onward.

I bet your quoted speeds are early in the morning and again late at night, the rest of the day you are in direct competition with every man and their dog trying to check their Facebook to upload selfies!

 

THAT'S THE ONE! Intranet! I remember back in Oz some selling packages were caught out doing that instead of showing the true speeds to potential customers! The Whirlpool Forums were abuzz with people claiming unrealistic speeds, then the "Intranet" was explained to them by the truly 'smart guys' as to why they were incorrect in calculating their speed. Even my old Techie back in Oz who had been around since the birth of the Internet when it was like Teletext and was proficient in writing C++, fell for that one quoting wildly unrealistic speeds, until he read for himself that he was doing it all wrong! Was a somewhat victorious day for me that day! jeje

 

guess thats why when I switched from globe they encouraged me to "Select the server I prefer to use" - hmm