Utilities & Mobile Best Posts in Thread: Undersea cables damaged, (even) slower internet

That is an interesting spin on the slow Internet.

I use PLDT DSL line at the moment. I am supposed to get "up to" 5 Mbps speeds. At this moment, speedtest.net is showing a speed of 2.29 Mbps between my computer and Cebu City's PLDT server. Wonder how the lines under the ocean in HongKong can possibly be responsible for that?

I changed the test server to Hong Kong and the speed was reduced to 0.94

I changed the test server to Los Angeles (at the speedtest.net main server) and the speed went back up to 2.10 Mbps. Wow, almost the same as Dumaguete to Cebu. So now I disbelieve their excuse. It only affects specific spots like Hong Kong. Sure, cut cables affect the speed. But how do they explain Duma to Los Angeles getting pretty much the same download speeds as Duma to Cebu on a Saturday afternoon?

My explanation? I believe they have oversold their product and if double the people are on line than the lines can handle then everyone gets half the speed. Or it may be a ratio that is more dependent on how much money the customer is spending. Either way is more about profit taking than cut cables.

 

I tend to agree, when I signed up in Feb/Mar this year speed was great, however, over the past few weeks, speeds have dropped so bad some days I cannot even open a web page let alone an online video! I suspect with the roll out more are now availing Fil-Products and eventually with too many on-board, it will all go to hell!

Reminds me of the early days of the Internet in Oz when the FREE Providers opened up shop, in the beginning things were fantastic, at the end it was so over subscribed, you were lucky to get a few minutes online before those logging on pushed you off, meaning you needed to dial up again to log on, in turn pushing the next user off and so on and so on... When the dial-up charges quickly outweighed the paid services, people gave up and paid for a reliable service. Okay; nowadays you do not get booted, but with so many logging on, bandwidth slows to a snail's pace!

 

FWW, I found that your local tower in Siquijor is only 3G but you want LTE, if you can get some neighbors to sign up, they will outfit the tower with LTE. Then you can go postpaid etc.


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According to
http://www.yugatech.com/news/se-asi...t-slower-internet-ensues/#paiHZz24VM2EmSDg.97
we will suffer (even) slower internet speeds until probably mid October as a result.
Several internet providers in the Philippines have already warned their customers accordingly.