New round of DSL speed increase for PLDT myDSL

Hey folks,

planning to move to Manila City in late December and in my location I hear the only DLS provider offering any DSL plans in the tower is PLDT. Well, I need to telecommute and work in IT. I am heavily relying on a stable connection with as little delay possible. I don’t so much care about speed in fact. So, which plan would you suggest? The 999 plan is definitely too slow even though, thought of going for the 3mbit plan which comes up to 3000 pesos I guess. How reliable is that and how’s usual delays towards Europe? How often does not not connect etc?

Would be nice to hear from some of you or what you’d recommend. smart bro would preferably be my last resort. :p

@jovial:

Sabihin mo sa kaibigan mo sa umpisa lang yan.
Katagalan unti-unti pababagalin ng PLDT connection nya.
Puro kasi mga sinungaling tao sa PLDT eh.

lgi nmang npuputol connection sa server when i’m playing special forces, bt kaya

hmm,, mukang nag upgrade na un dsl ku. naka plan 999 aku nagulat aku bigla n lng sya bumilis.. umaabot na aku ng 1mbps sa download ki hehe

PLDT is conning their subscribers.

You won’t reach their advertise speed, you’ll get only half of it. They’re definitely put a speed cap way way lower what are advertising. With my plan I should be able to get 2mbps but after testing using pldt.speedtest.net for many times and different times on the day the max I can get is 1mbps, the result is very consistent around max 1mpbs everytime. if won’t even spike past 1mbps do it’s obvious that there’s a speed cap. PLDT should e held liable for false advertising.

F*CK PDLT!!!!

I am soo pissed with PLDT!!! They have the most suckiest DSL service ever! and they even have the nerve to go GLOBAL?! WTF!!!

Since August 29 i have been calling 172 ( Customer Service ) to report that i am having an intermittent DSl connection. Would yu freakin beleive this! they only get to fix my DSL connection this day and its already Sept. 18!!! I am not a computer dummy. I worked with SBC Yahoo before and i was a Triage Tech. im CISCO certified, i basically know 75% about routers and modems BUT its really impossible for me to fix something that is not on my end. First few days of my report im calm! 5th day… i TRY to be calm 6th – 10th day i am still trying to be calm. But this day… Geezuz Christ i just cant take it! We are their customer for mre than 2 years now and this is the first time that my DSl got fucked up and they can’t even send a technician or a decent return call from any of them?! and for the record… i’ve called their customer service for 25 times! 25 times!!! *sigh* all i can say is PLDT is freakin fuckin sucks!!! My disgust towards PLDT MyDSL’s UNETHICAL AND HORRIBLY UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF COMPETENCE is never ending. Ika nga sa tagalog, sagad na sa buto. Too bad PLDT DSL is the most DECENT DSL connection in our country. *sob* how sad.

Without informing their customers, PLDT has once again decided to change their speed plans, and have admitted they couldn’t provide dedicated 5mbps in the first place. And so now, the highest plan has been lowered to 3mbps.

I also called PLDT today and asked them what exactly was going on and the guy I spoke to pretty much said the same thing, the network just can’t handle dedicated 5mbps connections for some people, so they decided to drop the so called 5mbps plan.

Worse ISP in the world.

http://www.pldtdsl.net to check out the site for yourself and see the revised speed plans

beatrice:

I’m also on the plan for P2200 since 2002, I’ve had many problems through the past years but they seemed to work out somewhat. I don’t know what our plan is called now but I am getting at an average of around 3 mbps (~350+ KB/s) on downloads and around 10% of that on uploads.

If you’re not using your DSL much, I think it would be better to downgrade and save a lot.

currently subscribed to pldt plan 1995 and im only receiving 1mbps but it should be 2mbps. why am i paying for the extra 1k PLDT? This is very unfair, others are paying for the same price as me but they avail the speed of 2mbps.

id like to get a dsl which is better pldt or bayantel? im using speak n surf and its been two months already im still experiencing close to ZERO upload. down load if fine but connection in intermetent.

Magnanakaw talaga ang PLDT, we’ve been paying 2,500 for a 768kbps connection. Hindi talaga sila nagsabi sa amin na ini-upgrade na nila ang mga speeds sa subsciber. Sa technician pa kami naka confirm na lugi na kami. Tinawagan namin ang dsl hotline nila at ang sabi nila na “i-monitor” lang ang connection namin. Hanggang ngayon hindi pa namin nakuha ang 2mbps at aming refund(para sa php501 overpay monthly).
GOOD JOB PLDT!!! imbes na i-upgrade, dinowngrade nila(from 768 to less than 70, eto na ang pinakamahal na dial-up connection sa buong mundo!!!

Originally we were using pldt’s dsl original plan 3000. We reside in the Malate area. Maswerte na kami kung makakuha kami ng 612 kb/s.

January of this year, we lost 1 months worth of dsl connection, but we were still charged the monthly P3,000. We were told to reformat our computers. Iyon pala, data corruption error something yung problem. They eventually told us that the problem was on their side. Galing talaga.

After 5 years of the plan 3000, our family decided to downgrade the plan to pldt dsl plan 999. Just tested dsl speed now, download speed is 24 kb/s, upload speed is 62 kb/s.

Pldt, you’re the best! Dadami ang puting buhok ko dahil sa pldt. Absolutely awesome!

Never trust what PLDT says. They’re too rich to even care about the end-user.

They’ve effectively eliminated a lot of GOOD competitors, either through legitimate or illegitimate means. The state of broadband in the Philippines is extremely disappointing.

While the average HK student gets subsidized notebooks and gets download speeds of at LEAST 1mbps, we in the Philippines rot with expensive prices on PC parts (compare AMD CPU prices worldwide) and horrible ISPs. I refuse to believe the so-called progress of the Philippine IT industry.

At this rate, the Philippines might move speedily down the ladder of technological progress. Imagine being beaten be Vietnam or Cambodia. That would be absurd.

Hahah 5mbps? this is a joke, come on pldt.

I’m on that plan right now and im only maxing out at 2.5mbps even on their speed test site. Called tech support about 8 times in the last two weeks to have them fix it and still nothing.

Consider yourselves warned.

We are going fiber optics ;) . The lowest we can get is upto 5mbps up/ 2mbps down. The fastest is 30mbps/5mbps. It’s bundled with TV and phone(unlimited nationwide calling) for $99.99.

Screw PLDT. Unless they meant gradual roll out in a hundred years, that’s BS.

Hmm … we’re using a very old P2,500 plan. It’s the first DSL plan that PLDT offered many many many years ago.

Just wondering which category does this belong in ….

yeah right. since 2006… i never experienced that increase…

I’ve read upgrade news like that more than a couple of times before. But I still don’t think they really commit to the words they say. I’m on plan999 but I still am getting averages of only more or less than 300 kbps, and I’ve waited for those upgrades for almost a year now.

PLDT should start publishing their CIR. More often than not the published bandwidth does not even come close with the actual speed.

Great, hope it’s the real deal this time!