Sky Broadband now up to 12 Mbps

Hey Yuga,

Any news if they offer broadband only or even broadband + voice? Also any linkage to their online ads?

I believe Sky and BayanTel are owned by the same people. BayanTel at least is reliable in our area (QC) with fast service and good connectivity.

interesting. i wonder if there will be a lot of takers of these plans.

@frozenpyro: No, they are different services. BayanDSL was previously called SkyDSL. I guess they changed it to avoid confusion.

Sky Broadband: http://www.skybroadband.com.ph/
BayanDSL: http://www.bayandsl.com/

I’m currently subscribed to Bayandsl and I live in QC. Service has been okay. A few downtimes but nothing intolerable. And I’m a heavy internet user.

That 1.5 mbps plan of Sky worth 999 looks tempting. I’m on plan 899 in Bayan and it’s only 384 kbps.

is time to switch? hehe. I’ve beent using bayantel for years now and ok yung speed. thats why I haven’t switch carriers.

I wish more ISPs would enter Cavite and other provinces. We’re too tired of Globe and PLDT giving us least priority when it comes to service calls and system upgrades.

@Patrick, I’m also on BayanDSL. Plan 899 but 768 kbps and up to 1mbps when using speed on demand. :)

I’m also with bagldsl, I mean bayandsl. and for the price, its enough but still for 100 pesos more you get 1.5Mbps for a DSL sub from PLDT and Globe, more than the SOD speed that we get. of course burst speed is the key.

I thought cable internet was not as good as DSL, but I guess, cable internet can push more speed than 5Mbps connection fiber dsl connection that pldt offers in rich areas, i mean selected areas.

So how far are DSL (in Manila) from reaching top speed of 12MBps? i’m guessing 3-5 years from now? since the 5Mbps haven’t been fully rolled out.

@andre that is why they put in the package “up to” a certain speed, not “exactly” the speed. hehe.

6mbps for 3,999 sounds like a totally good deal. but yuga is right, it would depend on the reliability with Sky. PLDT with me right now has been pretty stable and the speed has been increasing bit by bit. but there would be a few times in a year that the connection would disappear. and, IMO, customer service sucks.

if anyone can give a good feedback on Sky, i would switch to it in a snap. i just hope they have options to up the upload speed though and it would be a perfect deal.

Hey jhay, i think Eastern Communications has facilities in Cavite area.

Try to call 3001607 for more details.

Abe, yung 15 days trial are for SkyCable subscriberonly :)

I wanna hear from someone who already has the skycable thing. For the most part i have the internet for gaming purposes. and we all know bandwith size means just about the same as shit when trying to look for a good isp when gaming. anyone who has the sky broadband thing, if you would kindly ./ping 203.116.28.6 -t and post the ms count. :D this would be greatly appreciated. thank youuuuu. oh by the way, that ip is a game server located in singapore

Hi there. I recommended Skycable Broadband to my girlfriend and they’ve been using it for about 3 months now. She was previously using the succckkky SMART bro. She’s using the 900+ 1.5mb plan of skybroadband that also has a 15% discount on cable tv. She lives in merville, Paranaque.

So far, we would recommend switching to Skycable Broadband if you’re using SmartBRO. SmartBRO service sucked. Everytime the internet was down, you’d call them, and they would answer after 30-60 mins, then go through the procedure and ask you to call back after 6 hours, wherein, when you would call back you’d have to wait another 30-60 mins. My girlfriend can actually work for them already because she already memorized the SMART process of resetting the modem, ping this, ping that. hahah.

WIth skycable broadband, so far internet has never been down. And whenever we call skycable (for inquiries, since we’ve never had problem with the internet), they do answer immediately, as for the response time with their service, im not so sure yet, but if I can just base it on the time it takes you to get connected to their customer representative, then I think skycable outperforms SmartBRO.

I would also recommend BayantelDSL, never had a problem with them with the 4 years i’ve been with them (in Quezon City), I have the 2.5 mbps but its a bit pricey though at P2,700 (comes with a line though). Service is great, they come quickly, and provide a refund if there is downtime with the internet for how many hours.

Im actually thinking of switching to skycable broadband because their 3.0mbps plan is actually 800 pesos cheaper then my 2.5 mbps plan with bayantel. But i still have like 7-8 months with my contract with them. Maybe next year. But overall, I have no complaints with BayanDSL and there are no complications with SKYbroadband. Speed is consistent because I regularly perform a speedtest to check if the Speed of the internet is the same as advertised.

dont Get SMARTbro. for love of your life. It will be a hassle.

Btw, we tried the 15 day promo for skybroadband, No hitches, no catch, and had no problems.

As for BayanDSL, the 15 day promo is okay too. No hitches. No Catch.

For ROyce (the ping on 203.116.28.6):

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 62.019/67.081/83.309/6.888 ms

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND SKYBROADBAND and BAYANDSL.

Guys, I cant wait for the installation of this sky broadband!..

i called already the skybroadband center, and they will install the product on january 2.

anyways, here is my comments on all ISP i have used.

GLOBE AXESTELL – this is a shit. connection flactuates aftenly! i cant play online games even if i my PC has high-specs

GLOBE ZTE (3g) – this is better that AXESTELL. good for browsing and downloading small files. my only concern is, what if i want to surf internet during THUNDERSTORM???? this modem is not applicable during thunderstorm.. so dont use this during 3rd quarter of the year! hahaha

SMARTBRO – when it comes to consistency, this is what i am recommending.. this doesnt flactuates..

so far, SMARTBRO still leading the race among the connection i’ve used.

but as i mentioned, i’ll be using SKY BROADBAND soon. so, i am hoping that i did a good choice.

does SKYBROADBAND gives atleast 75% of its offered speed? please do reply,, :)

We’ve been using SkyBroadband for almost a month already. Unfortunately, the 1st 15 days free trial was great. we’ve been getting good Mbps BUT when we confirmed that we’ll continue with the subscription, that’s when we frequently get “NO” Connection. We always call their customer service and they keep on telling us that there’s no problem with the system based on their analysis. They even sent their field technicians (twice already)to check on our modem, wirings etc. and they keep on telling us that they have fixed the prob. BUT to our dismay the connection problems will resume right after they left. We’ve been experiencing almost 2 straight weeks already and it really pisses us ‘coz we can’t do our tasks.
I’m just letting you guys know that we’re not at all satisfied with SkyBroadband and i wished that I didn’t disconnect our SmartBro. I will just assume that our prob. is just an isolated case. I’m just posting this just to share my opinion. So if you are planning on getting the services of Sky, think again..

to jillian –> I’m also scheduled for installation of sky broadband. and until now, they are not here yet..

its almost 4pm.. f*ck! they’re making me dissapointed.

actually, January 2 was the scheduled date for the installation.. but there are tech prob that’s why the schedule has been moved to this day..

I hope they’ll give me great connection, or else… they will recieve bad critic.. by any means..

i’ve been with PLDT myDSL for almost a year now and i haven’t experienced any downtime at all. the only time i lost connection was when the PLDT guys were outside my house switching my connection to fiber optic dsl which was not a problem, of course.

i’ve been thinking about switching to sky broadband when my contract expires but my officemate, who’s with sky, told me not to switch because she’s having bad expriences with her connection most of the time. so i’m having second thoughts about it.

i just hope that by the time my contract expires, PLDT will have better deals for the same plan.

Sky broadband – Internet users can surf the web at incredible speeds while enjoying the low pricing Sky deals deliver. Sky broadband comes with its own wireless router. Sky deals for broadband range from limited access to fully unlimited packages that allow for surfing, e-mailing and playing around the clock.

I have been a happy Zpdee Subscriber ever since we jumped the fence from PLDT to Sky. Speed had been up and down, but I rarely experience down times in the moments I need my internet most.

Now, ever since the rebranding to Sky Broadband, our old 768K became 3Mbps, and speed is commendable but the reliability that attracted to me to Zpdee is disappearing.

Frequently nagtotopak yung internet on weird times of the day (2PM to 6PM weekday) but on weekends, okay naman. I hope that due to the influx of fence jumpers, our beloved Zpdee won’t be just another PLDT/Bayan/Globe story ( Increase in subscribers, Decrease in performance/service )

This is based on my experience in sampaloc manila

1. Kung magaavail ka nung 15 – day trial, madaming reason at delays para hindi ka makaavail ng free trial service and they will not inform you if you are not aware kahit almost 12 years ka na subscriber ng skycable

2. Kung almost 1 year subscriber ka na ng skycable hindi ka nila iinform na pwede ka pala muna magavail ng 15 day free trial na no cash out sa modem installation

3. Kung tatawag ka sa kanila pagpapasapasahan ka nila na parang bola especially kung may previous request ka sa kanila hindi nila ikaw iinform for updates.

4. Ang subcontracting technical group nila ay sinungaling hindi nila nirereport ang actual na technical problem sa CSR or record ng head office nila, iba ang rereport ng tech team sau sa irereport nila sa csr record mo (in short ” sinungaling”)

The Philippines is still way behind the western world in Internet speed, in the UK we can get 56 Mbps, for just 40 pounds a month, thats about 2,720ph, imagine downloading a movie in just 5 minutes, here it takes hours, and its so unreliable, in between the brownouts and the down time in service, It’s amazinge that you get anything done on the internet here in the Philippines.

Hi,

I have been a Sky Broadband subscriber since November of last year (2008). I’m on the 3Mbps subscription (P1,999/month). And like others here, the 15-day trial went more than well. It was great. I’m a gamer on my week offs and connecting and playing in the Playstation Network was superb. UNTIL of course giving them my confirmation to subscribe at the end of trial! I’ve had downtimes almost 3x a week. They’ve changed my modem 4x already, and worst, checking on my speed (download and up), I get as much as 1.5-2Mbps (uploads at 200-250kbps, i was told it should be at least 512kbps).

Now I couldn’t even get a decent game session on the PS Network. I live in San Juan, right behind the Sky Cable HQ here. So that tells a lot on the distance factor (from HQ) eh.. So it has to be the many subscribers (which have grown because of the promo trial) who’ve been hoodwinged like me.

Now letting this service go, compels me to pay a pre-termination fee of P2,000. Sucks.

we used to have SKY Cable, then shifted to Destiny… then when a package of ZPDee + SKY was offered a few years back, we tried out their broadband, and super reliable. Siguro in the years we’ve had it, we’ve had only a few major outages a year that lasted more than 10 min (other times it was simply a matter of unplugging and replugging the cable modem).

our speeds were also upgraded without us being advised, from 384 to 512 to 1mbps, and now that they’ve transitioned to sky broadband we now have 1.5mbps.

no problem so far, but there was a major outage for a few days – turns out our old reliable cable modem (which came from the zpdee days) died on us. the new modem is a lot smaller, but i’ve started noticing some small 5 minute outages at random times of the day.

overall though, given the horror stories i’ve heard from officemates and friends regarding their DSL connections, i’d recommend sky in a flash :)

I was a loyal PLDT subscriber. For 5 years, we never gave a second thought on switching ISP’s. But now, I am starting to get disappointed with PLDT’s DSL.

Usually, my internet downspeed would hit around @ 2 Mbps off-peak and around 1 Mbps during peak hours and my upspeed would hit around 600 Kbps (off-peak) and around 500 kbps during peak hours. But then one day, my Downspeed suddenly dropped to 380-420 Kbps and my Upspeed to 55-57 Kbps (that’s ridiculously low!).

I tried calling them for support. They made me do things like speed tests and tracert, but they were unable to solve the problem. The customer support guy said that he would report it to their techs can fix it from there and would send one if they can’t. Then, the day after, a tech guy came. Unfortunately, he was still unable to fix the problem and he told me that it was probably due to the number of subscribers in the area. I thought it was ridiculous. I mean, look at my UpSpeed! It shouldn’t be like that!

Now I’m looking for better ISP’s out there and I was researching about Sky Broadband. For now, they look good on paper. But there are alot of negative reviews out there about SkyBroadband. Ofcourse, I’ll try the trial first.

BOTTOM LINE:
If all else goes wrong with the 15 Day Trial. What other ISP’s do you recommend? I’m in the Makati area.

I’m in Makati and for at least a year Sky’s ‘service’ has been down 30% of the time.

Try Eastern Telecom (now Eastern Communications). I heard they were down three hours in four years.

BTW, you flagged an initial comment as a duplicate, This is not good.

I switched from Bayantel dsl to skybroadband about 2 months ago and what a huuuge mistake! It’s jumping from the frying pan to the fire! From the time I connected, there wasn’t a day my connection didn’t go down.. I am from Quezon City, got the 6 mbps plan and the fastest I get is 2 mbps if I’m lucky during the times I am connected. This could be the cause of the ecg abnormality I was recently diagnosed with. But seriously, this is enough to give you a heart attack!!

I have called globe to survey my area and I have decided to give this thing up. But I will fight for the right to do so without the pre termination penalty. This is not what I signed up for!!!

Hi.I applied for the 15 day trial.The nice lady even verified that the service is now available in my street.April 2, I waited with anticipation on surfing the net and downloading at 12MBPs of dedicated service compared to the sucky BayanDSL.(It takes 5 days for a serviceman to fix my connection and I just live 2 blocks away from the Bayantel office)-and lo and behold after,calling them 6 times because the fail to call me back 6 times-I was informed that my street is not yet ready for SKYBroadband services.The street next to me is though,the squatters area…
Hay,major disappointment and epic fail on the Lopez group.

Shh… My neighbor here in Ayala Alabang has Sky Broadband 6mbps. The network is not secured so I was able to connect :).

I’m trying to download torrents but it seems that torrents are not working. I’m guessing that Sky Broadband has blocked Torrent trackers, or that my neighbor has blocked it. But if my neighbor isn’t knowledgeable enough to secure his/her network, then I don’t think he/she will know how to block ports and IPs.

I’m not really sure, but if Torrents are blocked in Sky Broadband, then I see no use on subscribing to it.

@Pierre

May I ask what improvements will NGN give? Because the PLDT tech that went here said that they would probably finish installing NGN’s in our area by Q3 or Q4 this year. And if I’m right, NGN stands for Next Generation Networking?

12mb sounds like appealing, it could be a great jump fwd for users here.
But …
There’s always a but :)
12mb to their facility is nice but after what do we do ?
No telco provider can guaranty you to reach your speed outside PH.
Make the test with speed.net and you will understand what i’m talking about.
Local Telco providers, even the biggest, still have poor peering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering) and only focus locally.
That’s explain you will have an hard time to take advantage of ur 12mb :)

So far only business lines are really providing an acceptable quality outside the country but nobody can affort those.

I been using skybroadband 6mbps for almost a week now! Unfortunately i cant avail the 15 day free trial coz im not a skycable subs. before.
So far we never had a problem, but we only manage to get the promised 6 mbps around 3-5AM the rest of the day the speed average would be 4mbps.
My torrents are working well, also have a US number coz it comes with a sky voice plan 100, though i dont have any1 to call in the US :)
All in all compare to my ISp before which is smartbro and globetelecom, its still better coz of the higher download speed it manage to offer, havent experience downtime yet,(with globe i never did too, for 1 year or maybe i just havent noticed it coz i dont go online all the time)
For me its worth a try. specially if you have the 15 day free trial

We’ve had Globe Broadband for the past 3 months and although it has great speed and reliability in our area, the modem itself could not connect to ANY router we stick into it. We have 4 pc’s at home as this functions as a homebased office and we badly need a router. What’s worse, we called their CS and they a 15 year old sounding guy sheepishly informed us that they DO NOT SUPPORT technical problems with connecting routers, only with connecting their modems.

We removed our modem and stuck the phoneline into a ProLink modem/router and all goes fine except that the modem/router is very picky with the websites it can access even if we alter our firewalls/proxies. What’s more, YouTube stops downloading 10% into the file meaning for a 10 minute video, we could only watch 1 min of it and then boom, it stops.

SkyBroadband came today with our 15-day tril and I tell you the 1st 2 hours was great. I could open my Central Desktop and we have a router connected so all pc’s have the same internet connection. I went to sleep and when I came back online at 10pm, I find out that downloading ANYTHING from ftp’s or torrents are 90%impossible. For a CrazyKart download that took me 45 mins with globe, its taking me 4-10 hourse depending on the really shifty file transfer speed ranging from 200kbps-20kbps or lower. Grrr. This is not what we signed up for!

We’re looking for reliability, not just speed as we do work from home and internet connection with our clients is a must.

We are in Pasig area.

Hope this doesn’t go on for the rest of the trial. This is baaaad for a 1st impression.

I wonder if the problem regarding torrents really is from SkyBroadband. Because there are some routers with firewalls that prevent transfer of data. One way to fix this is manually set up your router to allow the transfer. This process if called “port forwarding”. The website portforward.com offers a detailed guide on how to set up your router.

BTW- No catch on the 15-day trial. :)

I would like to know if SkyBroadband has too many downtimes. Like give me the time when to when, and how often. Because right now, im using globe and it takes 0.1-0.5 seconds for an enemy to die. This is a huge gap for pro gamers.

Current Internet : Globe 2mpbs shh! Im also kinda like tweaker, so I tweak the internet speed legally
Current Place : Ayala Alabang
Current Download speed + DAP 9.0 + Tweak = 200-300Kbps
Ping: 100(barely) – 999(sometimes)
Downtime: 1-5times in a 5 months. The Whole morning
I think now, its slower. The ping used to be fast, but not now. There is nothing wrong with my PC as of I know how to do anything to my PC parts and Windows.

Pls. Give me the Current Download speed and Ping, and number of downtimes a week and in a day. and how long. Thank you

computer knowledged hahahahaha

you seem to know a lot, but the way you talk implies the opposite.

If more people would avail of SKycable broadband, the cable would be hogged and clogged since its using DSL technology. Then you will eventually have the same problems again.

any review about destiny cable broadband internet?

GLOBE BROADBAND HAS THE WORST TECH SUPPORT…

Evertime my connection fails, it takes 15-45 days before a technician conducts an onsite visit…

That happens to me 7 times in just a span of one year. I do websites as my bread and butter and needs a 24/7 reliable connection. GLOBE / INOVE sucks bigtime here in quezon city. VERY POOR SUPPORT… I am now opting for BayantelDSL or Skybroadband. Any feedback from users of both?

Just like their “NAKAW LOAD” to which they’ll take away a few bucks left on your load, thru that stupid self-implemented expiration period… They won’t apply the rebates they promised unless you visit their satellite offices and do the complaints from there.

I guess top politicians and NTC officials are on their payroll for this… This is a crime against all Filipinos… Dammnnn… Globe… Milking those poor pipinos…

SHAMELESS GLOBE…

hi! I am paying P 999.00 for Destiny cable. They have PhP 500? I might need to renegotiate. More than 1 year na ko sa kanila. Now is a good time to shop for the best value for money provider!

galing ako sa smart bro plan 999 384kbps, kaso lumabas ang globe wimax lumipat ako kasi plan 795 512kbps- kaso ang globe ok sa internet pero poor connection sa online games katulad ng Garena at iba pa.. gus2 ko sana sa sky na mag plan sila ng mura pero ok ang connection….

speedtest.net as of june 24 2009 fastest ISP in the philippines SKYInternet 22.18 mbps quezon city server

I was on myDestiny internet for almost 5 years and every year it seems to be getting slower and slower so finally I decided to change to skybroadband, especially after taking the 15-day trial. I still haven’t disconnected our Destiny internet because I wanted to compare the two.

It is really alot faster than Destiny when it comes to browsing, and the speed is consistent (as the hundreds of speedtests i’ve been doing indicated). Everyone in my house is happy when they’re surfing the web and have commented that Sky is the better internet provider. (I live in Alabang Hills)

However, when it comes to the downloading of torrents, Sky really SUCKS! I tested downloading the same file from the same site with two computers, one on Destiny and the other on Sky and the results were very annoying — Destiny’s speeds were 5x faster than Sky’s! (100 KB/s vs. 20 KB/s). But if you do a speedtest, Sky is clearly the faster service (1.5mbps vs 300 kbps for Destiny).

So I guess this means that Sky themselves must be choking the download speeds somehow. Which is terribly unfair and downright wrong — nowhere in their service agreement does it say they can do that. I’ve complained 4 times now since getting the service 2 weeks ago and so far nothing has happened. Obviously I would like to only subscribe to one provider, but both are definitely flawed and it’s just so frustrating.

I guess what everybody has forgotten already is that the fact that cable internet (Sky Broadband) is basically a shared broadband internet access. Unlike DSL, which will not be affected by the volume of users at a particular time, cable internet will deteriorate when there are too many users at the same time.

US tech articles have been discussing this advantage and disadvantage of cable internet since 1999, and they still think that DSL is best for high-density areas. Cable internet is good, provided that there is a good balance between capacity and user volume.

I guess that’s the reason why Smart BRO sucks as well… It’s also a shared connection. Our service deteriorated after 4 years. But instead of replacing the transmitter, they simply pointed it at another cell site, because the current cell site has 70 users according to them. Since Sky Broadband has the same concept, I’ll just stick to Smart BRO na lang.

I guess that’s why Sky Broadband service may suck for some people.

been with digitel for about 7 months… some line was reportedly stolen so my connection is down for a month now. feel bad thou becaue i cant check my mail and i always drop by the digitel office and all they can say is “gagawin na po” damn… been that way for a month

just a tip when you are doing speedtest of your isp using speedtest.net… –dont test against servers here in phil. (skydsl.com.ph, skybroadband.com.ph, pldt.com.ph) because most of the sites wasn’t hosted here in the phil, meaning if you gonna browse facebook or play games like World of warcraft,ur packet needs to travel across the world not just in Phil. So here’s the real deal, test ur ISP (bayanteldsl, skybroadband or pldtdsl) against US servers, and you’ll see results they were pretty much close.

hi all,

im new to phillipeans straight from aus and im lookin for a broadband connection. currently logged in to an unsecured smartbro server and its tellin me the speed is 34mbps. Didnt you say that Skynets 12mbps was the biggest one round??

and can some1 plz give me some solid advice or direct me to a site where i can get some. = )

it sucks… we have it for 2 months now and its giving me headaches… it only bursts to 1100++ but dont be fooled… its actually varying from 65-1100… that really sucks for me since i play online games… dont subscribe to it… its worthless

papa kbait na sana ako ng Sky Broadband, pero after reading all the negative feedbacks.. tsaka na lang na muna pag medyo matino na service nila.

do you offer sky broadband for business. i need a retort from you. tnx….

hi sir jayzee,

skybroadband agent here..

for ur questions abt d broadband

pls text or call 0906.289.3841 / 4879157

i will give fast response abt ur inqueries

Thank u..

hahaha bulls.h.i.t pala tong sky na toh? 20 kbps for torrents? wag nlng!! ta.e tlga.

anu ba yan kala ko 4x faster sa dsl ung sky 4x slower pala! mabalis pa globe Dsl kaso hirap sa browsing pero sa DL speed ng torrent ok na 350+ kbps 15mins to 30mins isang movie..

I’m used using 100Mbps NTT here in japan. I wonder if gaano kabilis un 1.4 :((…..

@keith rhodes: Instead of getting a 12Mbps connection, I’d rather migrate to UK :)

well all I can say is PLDT is still the best! I am a new subscriber with my name on it. and 24/7 I get 1 mbps of download and 500 kbps of upload all the time. well the ping of 18ms only gets higher during 9-11 am in the morning which is quite strange… and on evenings the connection is very okay like no change at all… I recommend PLDT.. rather than other ISP.. and added to that information..SUN BROADBAND WIRELESS SUCKS!! they have this FAIR USAGE POLICY which limits your bandwidth speed on online games and torrents.. that’s what they called torrent capping and port blocking. the guy incomment #56 says that we should file a lawsuit for those FAKE ADVERTISERS and so called UNLIMITED INTERNET yet limiting the bandwidth speed.. in SUN they inform you about the fair usage policy but doesn’t EXPLAIN ABOUT PORT BLOCKING AND TORRENT CAPPING WHICH MAKES SHARED RESOURCES IP’S LIKE ONLINE GAMING SUCKS!! TO HELL WITH YOU SUN BROADBAND!

It’s just so fast my ass! To SkyBroadBand,,i,,

It goes without saying that the Philippine regulatators are totally without an ounce of pride in them nor the ISP’s. They rather bury their head under the sand than address this shortcoming. Nakakahiya talaga sila at di magbabago ang sitwasyon na to kasi hangga’t maaari these providers will keep on doing this until they bleed the customers dry. Total wala namang pakialam ang gobyerno eh “kumita na lang ng husto” bahala na kung walang serbisyo.

When we signed up for Sky Broadband’s 1.5mbps plan a couple of months ago, we got pretty good torrent speeds–170KB/s. Now we’re lucky if we get 40KB/s on a well-seeded torrent! Sky’s hotline says they don’t cap torrent speeds, but I wonder if that’s true: my measly 512kbps PLDT MyDSL connection gets 50+KB/s on the same torrents, so…

base on my exp . im having trouble with my internet ( sky broadband “1.5Mbps P999 per month” ) i dont know why but sky broadband is FAST in surfing the net BUT!! SLOW when playing Online games.

Okay okay okay…

I’ve read almost all of the comments here and will confirm some facts, based on experience:

1.) Day-time (or PEAK HOURS) will offer you anywhere from 40 – 75% of your DOWN/UP speeds

2.) ONLINE GAMING:

Garena Room affiliation shifts from BAYANTEL to PLDT rooms every 3-4 months or so.

No problem in accessing INTERNATIONAL SERVERS

VERY STABLE CONNECTION: Up time is @ 97% for me. NO DISCONNECTS due to connection stability. The 3% disconnects is due to ANNOUNCED downtimes or some other ISPs ineptly messing around with the cables/connections in my building.

3.) TORRENTS

Off hour connections may overclock your subscription speed.

Sometimes, I go upto 250 KB/s as opposed to the supposed “max” speed 187.5 KB/s for my 1.5mbps connection.

Slow torrent speeds is due to either your UPLOAD SPEED is TOO HIGH or SWARM SPEED is SLOW. Either way, it’s on the fault of the settings of your torrent program.

TORRENT PROGRAMS ARE NOT NATIVE PROGRAMS THAT “ADAPTS” ITSELF TO YOUR SETTINGS. AND SINCE SKY BROADBAND IS A CABLE INTERNET <> A DSL (DIRECT SERVICE LINE), YOU NEED TO TWEAK YOUR TORRENT PROGRAM ACCORDINGLY…

Besides, there is NO INTERNET SERVICE in the world that GIVES the FULL QUOTED CONNECTION SPEED, especially during PEAK HOURS.

4.) Downloading from Megaupload/Rapideshare/etc.

Forget about it. 95% of the time, it will tell you that your IP is being used by someone else. This is due to the fact that your IP is NOT UNIQUE TO YOURSELF and is being used by MOST ALL THE SUBSCRIBERS IN YOUR AREA.

I am not sure if it’s the whole region/country, but all I know is it’s not uniquely yours.

5.) ROUTERS/WIRELESS

WILL <> WORK UNLESS YOU CALL YOUR TECH SUPPORT AND ASK THEM ABOUT YOUR:

STATIC IP ADDRESS
including: NETWORK MASK & GATEWAY

ALSO, YOU MAY NEED TO SET UP A SPECIAL SETTING SO THAT YOUR ROUTER and MODEM CAN COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH THEIR MAC ADDRESSES

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Basically, most of the problems about SKY Broadband STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT

IT IS CABLE INTERNET

WHEREIN, YOU DO NOT GET:
1.) PPPoE … thereby you don’t get ->
2.) Unique IP

If you don’t know the jargon… well, google it…

I myself have had no MAJOR problems with Sky and will continue with their service in the future.

OH, BTW… Globe sucks, PERIOD.

A PPOEP

dammit the <> are supposed to be “NOT”

Zzz damn source code…

Hmm, I’ve been using PLDT myDSL for almost 2 yrs. We had are ups and downs. Since matagal na kamiing Sky Cable subscriber, itatry ko yung 15 day free trial.

Sa PLDT ala ako prob sa torrents, gaming and browsing. Kaya lang ang baba nga speed ko ung plan 990 lang which is 384 kbps ( but the good thing is, i’ve been getting upto 50kbps download speed sa torrents and kaapag naka-internet download manager ako.)

Kapag pumalya sa torrent at gaming tong sky broadband, pagtyatyagaan ko na lang si PLDT.

I have tried PLDT 2MB, Bayantel 2MB and sky 3MB.
The 3 packages have almost the same price.
Sky is quite more stable where I’m living. The service is stable and up most of the time.
About the shared broadband thing between DSL and cable, I experienced more that issue with Bayantel and not with sky. After I agree on peak hours I can feel the global load, but who doesn’t.
What you have to keep in mind, because of the poor peering partnership of the telco companies here, access international website always sucks.
I still download content at an average of 2.5MB with a download accelerator and 1+MB with torrent depending on the seeds.

The most complain I have is the upload which sucks for all telco here.

We’re far from the 20MB/1MB usual and cheap in Europe. They’re starting to switch for residential optical fibers …. so maybe in 10y in PH lol

@Daniel:

I have already made all the right tweaks to my uTorrent (limiting download & upload speed, opening ports to make the light green), etc. but Sky Broadband’s maximum speed is still pathetic: 50-70kb/s on a well-seeded torrent. (The location of this connection is Bel-Air, Makati.) On the other hand, our Globe office connection (in Palanan, Makati) simply rocks, with download speeds of 220+ kb/s.

I’m thinking location plays a role. What’s your location? How about the rest of the posters here?

hi!

anyone living at nagpayong, pinagbuhatan, pasig city? do you have internet access?

please text me if you have… i’m living in the area and would love to have internet access: 0917-810-4546

the ISP wars has not yet begun. with the price that they are offering this, other cable companies can still compete. but if they bring down that 12MBps deal to just about 2.5-3K a month, then seriously, Sky will be killing the competitors and a true ISP war will break out. Good for the consumers.

is there a way to configure/check outlook to check sky broandband email?

thanks
chris

One sentence, and its been repeated many times in this blog.

SKY CABLE SUCKS!!!

today every hour i DC 5~10 times.
at a normal day you will surely get disconnected for at least 20 times.

and every gamer knows, that is so shitty!!

DL speed is not impressive as well,
it depends on the server of the site you are downloading on.

But BELIEVE ME, there are just few sites where you can download SATISFACTORILY. Most of the time u get speed 20~50% of wat u subscribed.

I live at QC and i think that our location is not that good for a sky broadband subscriber.

So if you live at QC DON’T SUBSCRIBED TO THIS SHITTY ISP!!!

hi guys, i need some help bcoz im looking 4 a good internet provider for my wife’s pc on the philippines, she applied for globe broadband and smart but they cancel her application bcoz when they visit our location the signal is too weak, is where does this skybroadband get thier signals? our location is too far from the city bcoz it’s a province, no landlines. sometimes cp’s are no signal. is it possible for skybroadband to work in our place or location, what do you think guys, plz response. to those who knows a lot about skybroadband, plz email me @ vaniz_all****@****.*** thnx a lot god bless. meri xmass.

hahaha. nice one kevin

anyone suffering intermittent issues with skybroadband near timog area in qc? Mine has been like that for the past couple of months. And as usual, sky won’t believe me :/

I want to get the 6mbps kindly contact me so we can have a transaction 093929***** Thank you so much

We initially had Destiny cable’s ISP, it was very reliable and had a good customer After that earthquake in Taiwan about a couple of years ago it started to degenerate. Since I am always overseas and go home twice a year only, my sister in law was convince by a smartbro agent and got rid of the cable ISP, smartbro sucks after 3 to 4 months I decided to get rid of it, but they said I still have to pay the rest of the lockin period remaining months which is 8 months equivalent to 8K plus, I told them since I am not the one who permitted the installation and they did not live up to the service they advertised, I need it disconnected. They were looking for my sister in law but she already migrated to the US, so they are out of luck, good for them scammers. I got this myDSL now by PLDT and it seems Stable for the past 3 motnhs , but lately is becoming like the other ones,more down times, intermittent connections, are getting frequent and prolonged. Now I am thinking about switching to SKYbroadband but with all the bad reviews in this forum , I am having second thoughts. Can anybody advise me, who is not an agent of any of the ISPs, but a heavy internet user, since Iam one and do most of my works online. Many thanks in advance.
Rhonnie

Anyone using their broadband for VOIP services? How’s the quality?

I’m using Globe broadband right now and I’m not happy with the services I’m getting most especially on their customer service. Kasi parang recorded message lang pag nakakausap ko CSR nila eh. Paulit ulit lang yung sinasabi kaya in short, wala ka magagawa kundi mag hintay kung kailan nila aayusin yung line mo. Kasi nung last time inabot ako ng 7 days. Lampas na sa pinromise nila na 24-72 hours. Na usually kasama sa script nila pag tumawag ka sa kanila.

Now I’m planning to get bayan Broadband. yung wireless na worth 799 ata yun or 699. Gawin ko sya backup just in case mwalan ang globe.

Ano sa tingin nyo? Tama ba ang move ko ? Kasi in terms of reliability, lahat naman ng network may possibility na mag down paminsan minsan eh. Pero sana lang maliit lang yung possibility na mag down sila ng sabay. Kasi I’m satisfied sa speed na binibigay ng globe. Pero Hindi ako satisfied sa mga times na nawawalan ng internet. This January twice na ako nawala ng internet. At ang reason nila ay affected daw ako ng ongoing system/network restoration nila.

Sa wakas, nagkaroon na rin ng DSL dito sa Nagpayong, Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City.

Salamat sa Globelines!

I’m enjoying their plan 2mbps+landline right now.

Hey guys I need your comments on Sky Broadband. Im planning to switch to a faster connection, not neccessarily a different ISP.

I currently have a connection with PLDT and its been great. I experienced only a moderate downtime a month after my first connection. That was 5 years ago. So until now I have no problem when it comes to service. Its just the speed that I want to improve.

I have, on average, 800kb download(Bandwith) and 400kb upload(Bandwith). Information gotten from speedtest.net

I want to try SKY broadband 12Mbps but I need some comments. Should I try the trial? It may just waste my time.

If you can suggest a better speed package that would be great. I am a SUPER HEAVY internet user. It takes days to finish what I download with
100kbps(speed).

Advise lang po sa mga gustong kumuha ng Sky Broadband for gaming:

DONT!

Mabilis po sya for browsing, downloading, VOIP. pero pagdating po sa gaming, it sucks, kasi proxied ung connection. Di hamak na mas mabilis pa smartbro or tattoo pagdating sa gaming.

I have the 6mbps, ok na ok naman, wag lang sa gaming. So I’m not bashing sky at all, just my unsolicited two cents worth.

Tried on: Aion, WoW, Rohan, RF. Pag ok po sa inyo using Sky (esp. Aion), paki describe naman po ng setup para magaya hehehe.

BEWARE OF SKYBROADBAND 15 DAY TRIAL – ITS A TRAP

I’ve been using Globe Broadband for years and its basically stable. Had a few issues with it at times, but the issues were more with technical support being so hard to reach, and many times they don’t listen and treat the problem always as if the problem is with my computer set-up even when it is clearly a problem from their end.
But overall, when things are smooth, its good.

This January I decided to test the 15day free trial of SKYBROADBAND. I just tried the 1.5mbps plan and compared it to Globe’s 1mbps. I was amazed at the speed, it was clearly faster and cheaper. And during non-peak hours it would even reach up to 2.7mbps. My sister, who used to work with globelines warned me though that probably, things will be great during the test, but once you subscribe the nightmare would begin.

Boy, was she right. Just over a week after I subscribed, beginning Feb 2, I noticed that during peak hours, there is an immense difficulty to connect to most secure sites. Gmail, Yahoo mail, Yahoo Messenger, and many others. As long as you need to log on, you can’t connect during peak hours. If you can connect it takes many many tries and after long long waits, and then everything is unstable. IStarted calling Skybroadband’s customer service. I explained the problem but they claim nothing is wrong with their system. So we go through all sort of resets, checking configurations, adjusting ipconfig, etc and still the problem exists. They said they will send a technician in the morning. But by 1:30am, things normalized. In fairness, 9am the next morning, a technician came and when he found out what the problem was, he was surprised that the customer service guys didn’t tell me over the phone about that problem. In other words, its either the customer service people are clueless, or they are trying to trick their customers into believing there is no problem with their system.

Anyway, to make the long story short, it is now February 9 and the problem has been happening just about daily. And I have been calling their customer service daily to follow up. Each time I call, whoever answer is totally clueless. Their immediate response is that there is no problem with their system. But I have to explain over and over each time that I’ve been complaining for days. They would then put me on hold, call their system administrator, and when they get back to me they confirm that there is indeed a system problem and that I’m not the only one experiencing it.

After nearly a week I started asking about this problem with SKYBROADBAND in some forums and discovered the following.

Apparently to maintain the bandwidth during peak hours, SKYBROADBAND does something to BLOCK DOWNLOADING. I tested this and it is true. By peak hours, torrent downloading goes down to zero. Limewire reports that it lost the connection to the internet, even though the internet connection is alive and would still rate high on speed tests.

The other thing reported by others is that whatever Skybroadband does during peak hours affects secure sites, https sites. And its true, I’ve been experiencing it everyday. And when I commented about this on facebook, I found out many others were experiencing the same problems.

What’s the point of getting an allegedly fast internet connection if they disrupt your ability to log on to email, to connect to ym, and they prevent you from downloading?

Added to this is the terrible customer service of Skybroadband. They are clueless about what’s going on. I’ve complained everyday for a week, each day having to explain the whole problem over and over again. Plus, I have to counter their persistent pretending that there is no problem with their system. I hate it that they thing we are stupid and that they can convince us that the problem is with our set-up when it is clearly with them.

Also, you can’t even email their customer support as listed in their website, it just bounces back because the mailbox is full.

So, even though my account is barely a month old, I already told them I want to be disconnected by Feb 28 since I already paid until that date. They told me that there would be a disconnection fee of P350! I vehemently objected and told them I refuse to be penalized for their inability to provide adequate internet service. Besides, I never signed their contract. So, if they try to charge me that ridiculous fee, then it will be war.

SO BEWARE OF SKYBROADBAND!!! YOU WERE WARNED!!! THE 15 DAY TRIAL IS A TRAP.

Mark,

You mentioned that you are with destiny Cable. I have a small office staff in project 6 that supports my operations in Houston, TX.

We use the net for our VIOP. and web surfing.
Right now, we are leaning on getting the P3,000 plan of pldt.

I have Comcast Cable here in the US and we love it. Unfortunately, there is no Comcast in Manila.

Anybody’s 2 cents worth is appreciated.

Dart,

Yeah, I’m on destiny cable… I’n using plan 999. fairly stable at 512kbps but it can reach to 1.5 Mbps. I;m not so sure if it can provide your needs. But you can try contacting them. maybe they have another package for business like yours.

Destiny Cable: (632)7011953; (632)7012091; (632)7428166

I hope they can provide the service you need.

recommend ko MyDestiny kung makati area ka, I’ve been using it for a year at 1-2mbps and speed na nakukuha ko, peak-1mbps offpeak-2mbps… speed and consistency okay as in, di sya nawawalan ng connection, nung Ondoy lang, and other few times,…

pero ang isang kakulangan nila ay customer service, hirap makatawag pag may-prob, pero once naman na na-connect sa mga tech nila, pag sinabi nilang bukas pupunta,pupunta….

been complaining to sky cable about this issue for about 10days now and still counting. I recall this started about feb 2, 2010 a day before they texted us about having a maintenance. since then we were never able to have smooth internet connection. at times we will be disconnected and lasts for 30mins to hours. just last night we had no internet connection from 2am to 7am. i got tons of screen shots of pings and disconnections and when i sent them to the supportcenter, they said it was normal. LOL i even encircled the time outs that occurred proving their connection was intermittent and yet they said there was no problem. they said they were gonna send a technician and still he hasn’t arrived. I’m really fed up with this coz every month they have a new problem which lasts for weeks.

Can anyone recommend me a good broadband for gaming? Im living in makati. thank you

The only problem in SkyBroadband is that you can’t play online games. Atm, we’re having a connectivity problems(more likely to be a limited connection and massive lags) So yeah. I can’t play ALL of the games(just to tell you that all of our games are online.) and sometimes we experience lags and every after 2 or 3 hours, our connection will slow down and poof. It can’t detect the network thingy which leaves us to, yes, limited connection/no connection.

God, I had a hard time reading that!

For heaven’s sake, just write a comment in Tagalog if your grammar is all over the place!

After my comment last Dec 16, 2009, I have decided to move back to PLDT MyDSL, I just got the 512Kbps plan of theirs for Php 1,200/month, and I must say it is similar in speed with the 2mbps of SkyBroadband except it is basically consistent the whole day, wala nung mga mabilis sa umaga, mabagal sa gabi. I had a chance to make it go head to head with the SkyBroadband since they haven’t pulled out the cable modem even though I had it cut last Jan, 2010. Kaya, I can honestly say na pareho lang ang speed ng 512Kbps ng PLDT MyDSL sa 2mbps SkyBroadband, at least here in Alabang, mas mura pa ng 800 pesos.

Also, after some investigation, SkyBroadband is marketing a 2mbps and not 2Mbps speed, take note of the capital ‘M’ and lower case ‘m’, so do not be fooled. The difference, 2Mbps is 2 megabytes per second, and 2mbps is 2 megabits per second. 2mbps is roughly the same as 384Kbps or 384 Kilobytes per second, kaya halos mag kasing bilis ng PLDT MyDSL lang. You can check this out by tweaking the Settings in speedtest.net to reflect mbps, Mbps, Kbps, and kbps.

Having said all that, I just came from Singapore and nakakaingit ang kanilang internet, dahil ang bilis talaga. Sa Changi airport ang 512kbps na speed ay libre lang sa kanila.

Hay naku, Pilipinas, kailan ba tayo hahabol.

Sky internet is fast. The problem is, how long can you keep the connection on? Kasi saken, I am having recurring problems with the Sky Cable Broadband connection. Lagi na lang ciang nadidisconnect!!! napaka bulok pa ng service ng customer support nila!!! kung wala lang early termination fee nagcancel na ako ng subscription! Sky Cable Broadband = BASURA!!!

HI jenny.. Looking forward for your post after your 15 day trial.. and by the way what’s your location on your skybroadband connection..?

Im currently in timog qc and im planning to subscribe. I am also scared of ”after 15-day trial” dilemma. I just want to play mmorpg games and i want a stable connection.

i’ve been paying 4000 Php for their “6.0 mbps” skybroadband bundle. more than 1 month nang 0.2 Mb/s and download speed (2.0 Mb/s if i’m lucky). is there any skybroadband customer who’s getting what they’re paying for? their call center agents aren’t helpful either – but for what it’s worth, they’re not as bad as pldt customer service representatives.

so sa mga impressed with their free 15-day trial, don’t be surprised kapag once na nagbabayad na kayo ng libo libo for their service, you’ll get a buttload of crap with their “speed” and “service”. obviously it’s just to impress you guys to subscribe and commit to them for 2 years. don’t be fooled.

i’m serously thinking of going back to pldt. although they too have given me a lot of headaches with their dc issues and service.

has anyone tried cablelink? – south area.

buLLshit SKYCABLE..sobranG paasa wlang kwenta c.service
almost 2 weeks kmeng pinapaasa na kakabitan kme ng cable
puro uo cla
pa bukas bukas
pero wlang nagpu2nta
tma ba un
ha
katwiran di ma trace itong place nmen
pateros lng …
hello
untill now
wlang nagkakabit puro pngko
shitttt
dammmnnn

@gheNIE – wag ka na magalit, kung ako sa iyo wag mo na tuloy at magsisisi ka lalo. hindi maganda ang service nila. ako nagsisi na nagpakabit pa ako. maganda yung 15 day trial but that is the best you are gonna get.

VIPEr ..ka asaR kc pina putoL kO pa unG destinY kO
kC nangakO slanG ipRriOr kme dhil almOst 2 weeks na kmeng waiting
untill now
succkkk tlga
twag kme ng twag puro pa bukas bukas promise nla
suuuccccckkk

I suggest you don’t get sky broadband if your in ayala alabang or in paranaque. Just check out this link and see if you would still like to get sky broadband. http://www.speedtest.net/result/780759108.png

what is the best isp services provider here in florida marilao, bulacan? thanks! im using sun broadband for 2days, ndi ko ngugus2han ung sevice..=( can’t view youtube..bagong lipat kami dito kaya wala akong idea.. need some help..=( hihintayin ko lng matapos tong 2mon. ko s sun then ill switch na..ok ba ang digitel?? sana may bayandsl na lng kasi dito..

sabihin ninyo ang modem motrola ba baka pwede natin ma uncapped ang modem para bumilis.

im in mandaluyong area.

just tried the 15 day trial. compared to my globelines 1mbps mas mabilis siya sa umaga. during day at lalo na sa peek hours. sobra binabagal niya. i’ve tried reporting it to sky pero walang nagbago.

im planning to change to pldt mydsl since globe has connection/configuration problems to my wifi router. it affects some programs regarding file transfer etc.

i hope it works

all of you guys are using bayantel dsl where giving good feed back, but on my location at SM Fairview Novaliches QC my bayantel dsl connection has the worse connection now I’m on the IT industry and my work is always on the Internet and anytime I connect and browse the simple website that I needed to browse it takes 10 to 15 mins. to load up the content of the website.

last year 2009 the connection where good but this 2010 starting January the Internet started to slowdown until now the Internet is worsening.. every week we are calling the bayantel dsl support to fix the connection all they can say to wait because there are some downtime work are going on.. I’m on the IT for 13 years and I know how the network and software works and it only takes 5min to 1 hour to fix the problem and 1day is the maximum but not months or 3 months to fix the crappy connection.. I’m turning my bayanteldsl OFF I’m done with this provider I have lost lots of working hours everyday because of there bad Internet connection..
I know there are some location that provide good bayantel dsl that is if the port connection for that location is not over crowded..

is like one 512kbps internet port lan cable sharing or providing internet to a 500 users imagine if all these people are using Internet downloading and view youtube at the same time.. other Internet users will suffer on connection…

unless bayantel dsl add more or open more internet port to SM Fairview Brgy. Kaligayahan location to get the Internet speedup I’m not subscribing to them right now..

right now I’m looking at Wi-Tribe or WiMax globe or other reliable DSL Internet connection

I am subscribed to a 3mbps account with sky. For the past 1.5 weeks I have had a very slow connection. about 167kbps especially between the hours of 6pm to 12midnight. I have called them numerous times, and I have never been able to talk with the one who is supposed to be handling my account a certain JJ Mendiola. Absolutely nothing has been done about. These people are ripping me off!

Glad to know I’m not alone with this kind of problem. I live in the Pasig area and I’ve been suffering from the shitty service of Skybroadband for months already. The previous posters were right about giving you a promising connection during the trial period, but once you’ve hooked up with them, shit starts hitting the fan. It has made me quit playing mmo’s and games like hon and dota, though might be a good thing, but still deprives me of even watching a 3 min video in youtube. The only time I get a really decent connection is around 4am and there’s no way in hell I’ll adjust my time for the proper use of their service.

So this is the last straw for me and I’ll be switching back to PLDT and hope for a better ISP service.

Any reviews on PLDT My DSL? I know they were bad in the past but are they good now?

been calling skybroadband tech support for 4 days straight can even play a simple online browser game what hell!! 54 days straight calling for tech support and still not working they even asked me to email the problem and still nothing nothing nothing

di na tayo mag english saa site na to para maintindihan ng skycable broadband na to TANG INA every month bago dumnatinbg yunmg bills mo sa network na to laging walang enternet sa may Balak na mag papakabit ng sky broadband mag isip na kayo walang kwenta nag service nila … lkagaya namin dito sa villa gloria 3 pinag buhatan pasig every end of hte month wala enternet putang ina talaga tong mga enternet na to gusto lang nila kumita npero service nila walang kwenta…sa mmay balak na mag papakabit ng service nila wag na kalokuhan yung sinasabi nilang mabilis ang puro sila manloloko,,, sinasabi ng skybroadband na sila mabilis perom sa totoo lang super bagal at pag tumawag ka sa kanila bago ka sagutinm it takes 30 minutes …. KAYA SA MGA TAGA SKY CABLE BROADBAND AYUSIN NYO SERVIVE NYO ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;TANG INA NYO TAWAGAN NYO KO SA CP KO PARA MAINTINDIHAN NYO PUTANG INA NYO TO NUMBER K 092136***** HANAPIN NYO PANGALAN KO SI BONG VALE SA VILLA GOLRIA 3 PINAGBUHATAN PASIG CITY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK YOU SKYBROADBAND MANG LOLOKO KAYO WALANG KWENTA SERVICE NYO SA MAY BALAK MAG PAKABIT NG SERVICE NG NETWORK NA TO WAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG NA MAAAWA KAYO SA SARILI NYO SCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ANG ANG MGA TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PUTANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG INNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ANG MGA TAGA ABS CBN MNA TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

SA MAY BALAK MAG PAKABIT SA SKYBROADBAND ENTERNET MAG DALAWANG ISIP KAYO DI MAGANDA ANG SERVIVE NG NETWORK NA RTO MAG LOLOKO SA UNA OK

What are the Differences Between DSL and Cable Internet?

This explains why Skybroadband -SUCKS-

Quote from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-differences-between-dsl-and-cable-internet.htm

“An advantage of DSL service is that your speed remains the same, no matter how many people are using the service. With cable Internet service, the number of users in your local area can affect bandwidth availability and result in slow service. Your personal experience is >>–>dependent upon the number of active users at any given time<–<<."

So… during off-peak hours (2am~9am), mabilis talaga ang Skybroadband. Pero during semi-peak hours (9am~5pm) at peak hours (6pm~12?pm) TALAGANG MABAGAL. Yung peak hours kasi nasa bahay ang mga tao sa area ninyo (watching Youtube, playing Online Games, surfing/browsing).

Conclusion — kasalanan nating mga consumers (biktima din ako) na hindi inalam mabuti ang mga pros and cons ng cable internet service. Mukha naman OK naman ang service nila pero hanggang ganyan lang talaga ang kaya nilang gawin. — Hindi magiging stable talaga ang connection ng cable internet sa "24/7" basis. —

— Villarica SUBD Cainta Rizal (bordering Pasig)

Hi all.

I have been using Planet Cable, but I think it is in fact PLDT, at least they provide the bandwidth to Planet Cable, I was getting a really bad connection, but Kept on complaining, and demanding something be done, in the end they gave me the correct speed (3MBps) and now over the last 8 months, it is really stable and can at last play my favorite game on-line, Red Orchestra.

Don’t sit back and accept what they give you, they do this on purpose, like everything else in the Philippines, you really have to push for what you pay for, if you don’t, then they will walk all over you, don’t let them fob you off with lame excuses, I threatened them with court action, then they where only too willing to help.

I am not a Filipino, I am British, I always demand what I pay for, in the UK, we get 56 MBps for the same price I pay for a 3MBps connection here, the Philippines are way behind in technology, I hope soon they realize that 3MBps just isn’t fast enough for a true INTERNET experience.

All the best.

Keith.

globebroadband 3mbps/2.2k php hindi totoo yan, eto ang speed na makukuha mo 1.6mbps almost half ang nabawas omg…. wag na kau sa globebroadband sa umpisa lang magaling yan.

<<>>

Anyways,

Destiny is ok.p2p connection is really fast and shoots up to 1.5 Mbps. How I’d wish Youtube and other web video protocols would be a whole lot faster.

I’ve noticed that http downloading has been slowing down lately. downloading a 7MB dota map took me about an hour or so. on the contrary downloading a 20MB torrent file took me 12minutes only.

super weird.

As much as possible I want better browsing experience, that is why sometimes i’m thinking of getting sky. I’m sticking with destiny since i can use its connection to immediately download torrent files if need be.

I noticed that most people here says that 200-300 kbps is so slow. In fact, in my PLDT myDSL, that would be very fast already! Imagine the speeds of download I get on average is about 40 kbps. So you people must be really lucky to get that speed of 200.

Btw, my subscription is Plan 990 and I am from Pasig (up to 384 kbps)but I only get that measly 40. On Friday, I’m trying this Sky Broadband. I don’t mind if it’s not 12 Mbps, but if it tops PLDT’s effin’ 40 kbps then I’ll continue the subscription.

Lol 12Mbps what for?, do you have a call center in your house. I only need a decent 1.5 Mbps and I can’t even get that here in this country it’s just like Sky Cable it’s called “bait and switch” they say this and do that. I live just beside this company’s office and I can’t get decent service here what a joke. I’m very pessimistic about company promises if a half decent cable company comes here in the Philippines I’m saying byebye to these losers. Get a life!

Am on my 2nd day of the 15days trial for 6mbps from skycable internet, so far it’s doin’ great. i get 4.79 mbps download and 0.63 mbps upload (1pm-speedtest.net – metro manila)

I paid 1k, i think it’s for the installation fee since i’m no subscriber of them.

i will be posting updates here of my trial.
location: manila
internet cafe
and also, still not disconnected with my pldtdsl 4.5mbps, (just in case, he he)

swertihan lang talaga ang maayos na ISP satin, dapat may internet standardization law, kasi never naman umaabot yun advertise speed sa actual speed…
gaano katagal ang lock in period ng skybroad band?

If you missed it here it is agen lol *facepalm

Here’s the proof of how skybroadband is doing nowadays people do your job

The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for

The dnsserver returned:

Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query.
This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.
Your cache administrator is a****@****.***.

——————————————————————————–

Generated Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:39:23 GMT by proxy3.skybroadband.com.ph (squid/2.7.STABLE9

And oh btw i wudnt b hir posting if your service was workin you all rofl

Here’s the proof of how skybroadband is doing nowadays people do your job

The requested URL could not be retrieved

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Hi all

I am British, sorry I don’t speak an awful lot of Tagalog, been in the Philippines for around 12 years, love the country, but it is run by too many corrupted officials, most of the people are great, but there are a lot of back stabbers in the country, been robbed many times, but they do have some of the most beautiful women in the world here.

Anyway, I get 2Mbps second for 3,000ph, that’s around 40 UK pounds a month, depending on the exchange rate of the day, and this includes cable TV, I am happy with the speed as I do usually get 2 MBps download, but the cost is way through the roof in-conjunction with the UK, for the same price I get 50+MBps, and free weekend calls, the speed here is so very laughable and so way behind the rest of the western world, in the UK, speed goes up every couple of months for the same price, but here in the Philippines, it has remained the same for the last couple of years with my account, the infrastructure is so bad, they still use copper wire in most locations, not sure if they have ever heard of Optical cables here, or just to bloody lazy to install them.

Things are starting to get faster, but god, you have to pay heavily for the bad service, they have along way to go, to even come close to the western world, they seem to be around 10 years behind, the tech is there, they just don’t want to give it to the general public, and they don’t like competitive companies starting up, they only just moved over to DVD movies a couple of years ago, the rest of the world is now using blu-ray movies, something that’s very hard to find here, then you pay though the nose to get it.

The Philippines is a beautiful country, but they are slowly destroying it from with-in.

Definitely agree with you regarding the deplorable aspect of service here in the Philippines. In the 80’s, it took 3 years to never to get a landline since PLDT was the only one providing, this changed when cellphones came, but back then to get a cellphone you have to wait 6 months and pay Php40K for the service, they kept it at this price range until SMART came along with their “affordable” price of around Php6K/month packages. Eventually, PLDT lost the landline business since most people would just use their cell for calls. The prices went down went down only recently when SUN gave their unlimited packages.

The same is true with the internet service, we just need somebody to break the monopoly and offer something faster at the same price. When people starting moving, the big boys will eventually start offering faster service.

I am sure PLDT, SkyCable, Globe, SUN know all the latest tech, I guess they are just in cahoots in the price level the industry is hovering on.

I guess I could put my comments in here.

Jumping fences will always be a risk in itself, so unless your speed is less than 60 kb/s, DO NOT change your ISP. With the sort-of crappy service of Globe Broadband I have, I still support it a bit. So…

Neither are good.

That’s the conclusion.

I say tolerance. or somebody make another Noli Me Tangere internet-style.

I am almost in the verge of changing my service provider from PLDT to Skycable. I am also a Skycable Gold subscriber and I am enticed by the discount they give to Broadband subscribers. Anyway, after reading all the comments, I am sticking my ass with PLDT.

Well, let me tell you my experience about Sky.

I currently have 4 mbps connection for 2000 peso, and until now, (about 3-4months) I’ve only have 1-2 Internet disconnections.

Now, I do agree with the Brit there saying that this place is way behind other countries. If I were to compare this country to Korea, then this country will be about 20-30 years behind. In a price about 2000 Peso, you can get a 100MBps download speed. (100 000 kilobytes per second)

What I want to ask these people in the broadband comapany is “Do you even have logics in your head?”

One reason is because, imagine, a company offers a FAST internet cnonnectio on a CHEAP price. What will happen? That company will dominate the internet industry within days. Not only that, but due to incredible amount of money coming in, they would be able to fix most of the problems being encountered from the users, increasing service, and with the remaining, money, they will be able to build up their technology and ACTUALLY make their OWN internet providers. (Reminder: PHilippines does not own any internet providers. They are getting it from (was it singapore or indonesia).

Hi all

after three years of being with “PLANET CABLE” there still is no increase in speed (2MBps), with the high cost of electricity here (one of the highest in the world) and PC (planet cable)ripping me off, they charge one of the highest cost for internet (3,000ph for just 2MBps+cable TV) and all the brown outs, some times several per day, it’s a wounder that there is any internet at all, I feel for the internet cafes here in the Philippines, and remember, the speed here is not constant, it is burst speed, just take a look in the task manager under network, and the grid there looks like a mountain range and not a smooth line as is usually the case in a lot of western countries, stability is something they not used to here.

Philippines is a beautiful country run by just 5 families who have crippled ” the pearl of Asia” the Filipino forgive and forget to easily, I would love to see Miriam Santiago run the country, now there is a woman who takes no shit from anyone.

The Philippines could be a fantastic country, if they could just get rid of the corruption.

SkyBroadband already has 112mbs plan but for 20,000php. To be honest, that’s quite a rip off. I’m sticking with my PLDT 3+mbs for 2,000php that I had for a little over 5 years now. Always stayed at 3 for download and a little over .5 for upload.

We have had Sky cable for 10 months in La Posada Sucat – its average download is consistant at 11 mb and its transformed our lives. At times we can get download speeds of 20mb – late at night or early morning. At last we can use I tunes etc no problem. Movie in 15 to 20 mins. Only one service loss and that was fixed in 1 hour. Will upgrade when the faster speed becomes avialable. Well done Sky cable

Know as for my other house in Batangas……we can even get Smartbro

Robert

Hi sorry I think I mean 11 Mbps and on some tests it can be beyond the 12 Mbps that’s promised unto 20 mbps . I understand it will increase to 112 mbps which will be world class , it’s already faster than my apattment in hong kong with PCCW and almost as fast as my house in London with BT

@Patrick

What area is that? Maybe the distribution of data speeds are depending on the area? (I envy you…’cus many other users are getting ripped off by Sky, but yours is different. There must be an explanation to this. My guess is the area.)

Sad to say though, these broadband companies are such rip offs. XD I wish there’s somebody out there to at least provide a reliable 4 mbps service for 999 PHP. That’ll teach them. =P

Patrick, what area in AAV are you at, I am also from AAV and I never got that speed which was why I decided to move from Skycable see my post way up Dec, 2009. Do you get consistent speeds even at night, bec when I was with Sky, it was fast only in the morning and extremely slow at night. Was there an update in the lines or was I just the unlucky one. I am along Country Club Dr.

I have since moved to PLDT and now on Globe. Globe is consistent but is still too slow for HD streaming. Waiting for the Tattoo Torque to come.

May nakausap akong dating nagtratrabaho sa skybroadband, pang akit lang nila yung free 15 day trial sa umpisa mabilis talaga pag nakatali ka na sa kanila paunti unti binabawasan nila yung alloted speed mo. inaallocate nila yung bandwidth nila sa ibat ibang lugar kaya minsan mabilis minsan mabagal, ang gusto nila kumuha ka ng mataas na plan nila. Hwag na kayong kumuha.

We definitely lack the leaders to execute these high tier goals. I’m an American/Filipino dual citizen and I’ve lived here over a year now and I’m seeing the same thing you guys are. But what can we really do about it? Yell at the politicians on TV? Spite the big time mall and franchise owners? Who are we and what kind of power do we have? This isn’t America where the supposed “freedom of speech” reigns mighty. The nation and government is still quite new, despite the fact that it’s methods and corruption have gotten real old. The average citizen out here is not respected, not listened to, and not worthy of an opinion for many reasons. Mainly culture and religion, proven in history to regulate conformity. The rest are bad habits passed on from parents who “didn’t know any better” or were just downright ignorant. That’s what keeps locking us into the third world position. Before this country can be great, the education has to be greater. The politicians we have now only know what they were taught. Everything cannot change in a day. But more and more of us are becoming aware, and though that’s a good thing, we need more people who will take action. Making all of these statements on the internet are about as good as sitting on your ass and watching the world die.

Yes, competition is the key, but what happens?

Smart challenges PLDT, PLDT buys Smart.
Sun challenges Smart, PLDT buys Sun.

So in effect, there are only three providers: PLDT/Smart/Sun, Globe, and Sky.

I’m a subscriber of sky broadband bundle pack. The connection is not really reliable and the speed? bummer. My previous PLDT connection is way way way better!

So are you advising to stay away from Cablelink Internet?

all I can say is that wired is still the best internet connection. da best pare! walang putol putol maliban lang kung d kayo magbayad

This company is the height of business arrogance. Have called them more than 5x and they never come. 3 hours a day outage with the cisco 2100 modem provided by them giving me a 192.168.100.1 – this is just 1 machine i am connecting to the modem. Account manager and TL are all useless. Do yourselves a favor and stick with PLDT DSL or better yet Bayantel and dont get suckered in – YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

ahahahaha… all of you fool… what plan do you usually use and what area you are form… does skybroadband are nearly in your place? too far site of sky makes heavy bandwid to catch if you are too far away on the site… NOTE! it is a BROADBAND not like DSL… think what is the diffences of it…. from the meaning of it…

Kevin,

You say that you expected that response from me? e bakit mo ginawa kung alam mo mga filipino sensitive.

Then you mentioned na Filipinos are to sensitive. e ikaw ba di Filipino? O oo nga pala isa ka sa mga Wana be’s hahahaha.

Can you tell me how much you make? it seems that you are too smart and to perfect for us all.

Thanks sa mga input mga Sir! Buti nalang nagsearch muna ako bago mag-avail nitong plan na ito. :)

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