We’ve all been experiencing the effects of the recent Taiwan earthquake. Our internet connections are mostly down if almost unusable. Here’s my own experience with the 3 major broadband providers.
PLDT MyDSL
Location: Mandaluyong, residential
While I’m not a heavy user at home, it is still annoying to crawl through websites. My connection speed is almost, if not slower than, a typical dial-up connection. There are some websites that are inaccessible.
Globe Broadband
Location: Mandaluyong, business
As our primary internet connection at the office, this one’s useless — unusable. Period.
Smart Bro
Location: Mandaluyong, business
Surprisingly, this provider as our back up internet connection, is the one that’s keeping us alive. It seems to me that it’s delivering the expected speed as if it wasn’t affected by the recent problems. In my mind, Smart Bro and PLDT must be using or sharing the same infrastructure, but why is the Bro working good and PLDT MyDSL isn’t?
What’s your broadband experience at this time? (please state location)
