senseless 966 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) After 4 applications and many nasty emails. They finally got out here to install my connection. Woot! I talked with the technician and the website is definitely not up to date with what their actual fiber deployment is. If you think fiber may already be in your subdivision you will need to get a survey team out to find out where the nearest box is. Don't settle for them telling you it's not on the website because the website definitely isn't up to date. My subdivision isn't on the website. http://pldthome.com/surf/fibr/fibr-villages They're supposed to have 700 subdivisions covered by the end of this year: http://www.interaksyon.com/business/67740/pldt-to-cover-700-subdivisions-with-fibr-service-by-yearend Edited September 25, 2013 by senseless 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Administrator +Salty Dog 79,279 Posted September 25, 2013 Administrator Share Posted September 25, 2013 Mus be nice to live in an area with fiber. Where do you live? Link to post Share on other sites
BossHog 42,071 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) You lucky son of a gun!! I'm at about 1/4000th of that speed. Really. Don't think I've ever even heard of a ping as low as a 3. Enjoy Edited September 25, 2013 by BossHog Link to post Share on other sites
senseless 966 Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 Mus be nice to live in an area with fiber. Where do you live? Fairview, Quezon City Link to post Share on other sites
Davaoeno 38,480 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I hate you ! i hate you ! i hate you !! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
senseless 966 Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 I hate you ! i hate you ! i hate you !! It's in davao! http://pldthome.com/surf/fibr/fibr-villages Link to post Share on other sites
Woolf 8,555 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Would be interesting to see speedtest done to some serversi n usa could you try the Irvine, CA fireline broadband speedtest server Link to post Share on other sites
spooks 1,729 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) I am south metro, we were invited a month ago to upgrade to the new package....long story short we are still waiting. Just received my billing and they did as I asked and refunded the premium difference as they know they cannot deliver. The cabinets or mini exchange boxes neither have the receive or send Ports required and the cables are not rated either. there is a long long way to go. usual over promise and under deliver attitude Edited September 25, 2013 by spooks Link to post Share on other sites
danoma 94 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Until last month i was living in a new condo in Ayala business center. A few months ago, representatives from pldt came to my building to ask me if i was interested in a fiber internet access. They could'nt give me specifics like prices, speed etc so I said maybe, give me the informations first and we'll see. 2 month later i received my pldt bill for the adsl and landline with php5000 overcharge. When i complained at the PLDT mabolo office they explained that the php 5000 was for the material upgrade to receive the fiber access. I told them i never ordered anything for heaven sake! They told me ok but now it will take 2 month for the manila office to process their error. In the mean time, they kept calling me everyday early in the morning to ask me to pay the php5000. I hate this company. I had outages that lasted for weeks, it took them 1 month to set up my adsl access and their technicians are useless. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
senseless 966 Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 Would be interesting to see speedtest done to some serversi n usa could you try the Irvine, CA fireline broadband speedtest server Irvine server gave some pretty crappy speeds. PLDT's USA landing points are in LA. The LA result is below: Until last month i was living in a new condo in Ayala business center. A few months ago, representatives from pldt came to my building to ask me if i was interested in a fiber internet access. They could'nt give me specifics like prices, speed etc so I said maybe, give me the informations first and we'll see. 2 month later i received my pldt bill for the adsl and landline with php5000 overcharge. When i complained at the PLDT mabolo office they explained that the php 5000 was for the material upgrade to receive the fiber access. I told them i never ordered anything for heaven sake! They told me ok but now it will take 2 month for the manila office to process their error. In the mean time, they kept calling me everyday early in the morning to ask me to pay the php5000. I hate this company. I had outages that lasted for weeks, it took them 1 month to set up my adsl access and their technicians are useless. If you can get fiber you should. It took me months of complaining and rude emails. But don't give up. You can get it. Link to post Share on other sites
danoma 94 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Irvine server gave some pretty crappy speeds. PLDT's USA landing points are in LA. The LA result is below: If you can get fiber you should. It took me months of complaining and rude emails. But don't give up. You can get it. Thanks, but I finally decided to move out of my condo to live on the hills of cebu because i couldn't stand anymore the polluted air, unfortunately fiber is not yet available where i live now. Also, If i remember correctly, i think there is also a pretty big termination fee in case you want to opt out before a 2 years contract with fiber. Link to post Share on other sites
MattFromGA 1,233 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Speed test to a server in the Philippines getting 15MB dowloads is great, but you still have to go through the same fiber routes to get to servers in the real world, which seem to bottle neck. When I was there I could see traffic routing through Hong Kong and it was slow leaving there to LA. Link to post Share on other sites
Knowdafish 1,772 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 After 4 applications and many nasty emails. They finally got out here to install my connection. Woot! I talked with the technician and the website is definitely not up to date with what their actual fiber deployment is. If you think fiber may already be in your subdivision you will need to get a survey team out to find out where the nearest box is. Don't settle for them telling you it's not on the website because the website definitely isn't up to date. My subdivision isn't on the website. http://pldthome.com/surf/fibr/fibr-villages They're supposed to have 700 subdivisions covered by the end of this year: http://www.interaksyon.com/business/67740/pldt-to-cover-700-subdivisions-with-fibr-service-by-yearend Very cool! How much does it cost though if I may ask? Link to post Share on other sites
Woolf 8,555 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I have a 30/30 fiber optic connection here in denmark speedtest to the ervine server DreamHost, LA Local host, Denmark PLDT Makati GLOBE Makati Link to post Share on other sites
MattFromGA 1,233 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 GLOBE Makati That would seem to prove that the connection to the Philippines from the outside world is overused. I believe lots of call centers using VOIP is a big part of that. I do read that spam email eats lots of bandwidth too. Wouldn't surprise me if there is more than one major spam server located in the Philippines. Link to post Share on other sites
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