Netflix, the popular on-demand video streaming service on Wednesday announced that it is expanding to 130 new countries, including the Philippines. Read more here
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Yeah saw this yesterday, really good news, at home our connection is nearly 3Mbit downstream so it should be fine for Netflix.
I thought that was really funny. Thanks. Ever since the Investigations my connection has increased from a regular 0.98MB max to a stable 3.5MB now I could complain, but hey this is Philippines. I consider myself lucky I pay P1600 for that which includes P700 for landline
I hate to rain on your parade but what you describe is a repeatable pattern here but I'm afraid that in a month or so's time, your bandwidth will drop again - until you complain again!
It is hideously expensive for what you get, but 3.5 Megabit is good enough for most stuff, just not a lot spare for others in the family to do anything at the same time. I pay 1849 a month for PLDT including landline and Telpad and it would not have been that much if she hadn't got taken in by the bleedin PLDT advertising for the lousy Telpad. Thirty quid a month for very little but I won't complain it is not bad for the Philippines
Onwards and upwards. My PLDT contract is now on a month-by-month basis. My research informs me PLDT it's about as good as it gets. They're promising upgrades to service so we'll see. In the meantime it's OK
In Metro Manila Sky Cable is probably better than PLDT but I suspect that PLDT pretty much provides the entire network much as BT does in Britain, so in the end it all depends on their engineers.
...and for those seriously considering, here is a review http://reviewhalohalo.com/index.php/2016/01/07/netflix-philippines-review-is-it-worth-it/
Not enough bandwidth here in the sticks for streaming videos, let alone just to get a connection. Can't even watch match of the day through my VPN.
Thanks for that. Very informative. Based on that I will not be a subscriber. Most likely I will continue to pay for a really decent VPN and enjoy the BBC iPlayer Although having said that it's not often I can prioritise my time to actually watch much
Peter..I recently discovered a streaming site called Filmon.. It streams live all UK TV and just about any channel you need from around the world...Thus far the programmes I have watched have not buffered...Thoroughly recommend. In the past I have used VPN`s to watch UK TV but not any more by the looks of it. I hook up the laptop to the TV via a HDMI cable.
