What are the odds of 3 DSL providers down?

Yup, all 3 of them are down.

1) PLDT myDSL is down — no conneciton since 10PM last night. NO dial tone on the phone lines as well.

2) Smart Bro is down — slower than a slug since last night. Only 3 out of 20 pings get a response. You’re lucky if you could load Google’s homepage.

3) Smart GPRS is down — cannot connect to the network daw.

Now, what are the odds of that?

All other phone lines in the area not working as well. Thanks to Airborne Access, I think I’ll be here at the Bluewave all day.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

12 Comments

clair says:

18 years ago

Wow. How interesting…
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Noemi says:

18 years ago

that happened to two of my ISPS . Destiny was down and so with Smart Bro. eeks, smart bro is really slow right now. Lucky you have airborne access. There’s free wifi at the Shell station near the house
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kid says:

18 years ago

it’s quite possible in your case since all three seem to be under the same data network ;)
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Mike Abundo says:

18 years ago

Four letters. Starts with a P, ends with a T.
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Dave Starr says:

18 years ago

A good example of one of the real hidden weaknesses of the Internet. So many different services and yet they always run through just a few critical choke points … and most of the providers that ‘Net users deal with don’t even know where the chokes are. In the Philippines, yes PLDT (Ma Bell’s orphaned stepchild) if often the guilty party, in the US, AT&T (Ma Bell’s ghost) owns a huge percentage of all the wires, fibers and microwave towers, still. You may contract with company X, or with company Y, but it all goes through the “Big Guy’s” pipes somewhere … and in many cases no one knows for sure.

We’ll never have the ‘Net we need, in any country, until the infrastructure is adequately disclosed, mapped and alt-routed.
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JP Loh says:

18 years ago

PLDT’s DNS has been up and down lately. I think I found a stable DNS server.

Try 58.69.254.133. I can’t wait for Globelines to setup the connection to our place so I can dump PLDT already.
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Rico says:

18 years ago

Naks! Bumalik siya sa site of the Post BlogCon meet. :o
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Connie says:

18 years ago

Re : PLDT. Hayyyy, what’s new?
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Lynn says:

18 years ago

Huh, at least I’m not alone in my recent Net connection woes. I’m using Sky DSL and lately it’s been really wonky. It works okay for an hour and then everything just starts crawling till nothing would load anymore. And then when I try to reconnect, it takes me many many tries before I get online again. Aargh.
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Jed says:

18 years ago

You name all you want of ISP’s:

Airborne Access – subsidiary of PLDT
Smart Communication – subsidiary of PLDT

The most important get a plan that has a high CIR.

Innove or Globe really sucks.
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blacksquid says:

17 years ago

pldt dsl in mandaluyong is also down since tuesday morning, can’t get through d customer service lines either, it really sucks being disconnected and in the dark as to what’s happening, aaargh!!! I’m posting via smart edge btw
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Gillian Silberman says:

13 years ago

You can definitely see your skills in the paintings you write. The sector hopes for even more passionate writers such as you who aren’t afraid to mention how they believe. All the time go after your heart.
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