Utilities & Mobile Globe (not a complaint this time)

When i fist changed from PLDT to Globe broadband some time ago i was less than impressed, we never ever got the 5Mbps we paid for, fhe best was 4 or 4,5 which then dropped to 1 or 1.5,
every time we called to complain was same story, we have used our GB allowance so the speed drops so we gave up calling and accepted it
But over the last few weeks i have been keeping an eye on the speed with the ookla website and it is consistently 5 or just above
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon ?

 

hi we have 5mb globe we gave next door our pass word and he spent all night down loading so our speed was slow until globe rebooted at 6 am every morning .We changed our password and had no more trouble , pings 4.5 all the time now

 

I also have the 5mb plan. Results 4.49Mbps down, 1.18Mbps up, I say that is pretty good for 6:39pm on a school night.

oh, though location might be of interest along with speed numbers. I am in Combado Bacong

 

hi Davy yes ours pings 4.5 to 4.7 and is fast ,

 

I have a 7Mbps plan and generally pulling just a sliver under 6Mbps down. Upload speeds are still pathetic and capped very low but as I don't upload other then the lady uploading to FB pictures that doesn't matter to me as long as its enough for solid two way communication which is fine at .35-.40

I'll say again as I always say since you said your ping is 4-5ms. You cannot realistically check your internet speed testing to anyplace in the Philippines. You MUST test outside of the Philippines to get a reliable and real test. Test to west coast in the US such as San Fran or LA, test to Singapore or other nearby countries except for HK and better to just avoid China all together. They can provide amazing speeds to their own server in Manila or Cebu but your still not on the internet until it has gone outside that server which only happens when you test outside of the country. This is an old trick they play which honestly isn't much different then me testing the speed between one of my computers to another computer on my home network and then calling that an *internet* test. They teach their techs to only use their own server inside the Philippines because they know what I'm saying is true. The real capping and speed happens as your exiting their server going onto the actual internet.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/5480307177.png

I think I am spoiled because this is slow for me. I am doing this over wifi instead of a hard wired connection and have streaming tv running too though.

 

If everyone would add where they are to the numbers it would help perspective by letting us know who we should compare to.