About 7 years ago the best we could get here in Leyte was 5 mbps... sometimes it goes up to nearly 90mbps!
We got out place upgraded a couple of months ago in Metro Manila and my kids are now getting about 80mbps down and 50mbps upstream, that's with PLDT fibre, it started out almost synchronous at 85mbps up and down but as more people in the subdivision got onboarded we could see a little bit of contention but saying that it is way better than what I get in this crappy flat in the UK 26mpbs down and 2mbps up.
Did a speedtest this morning with a paid VPN (cyberghost) 1 mbps and without a VPN 110 mbps. My internet plan is.. PLDT fibre 200 pesos monthy. Oh the VPN was to the UK on a 4k fire stick. Edit. Did another test, this time VPN connected to HK 9 mbps.. without VPN 299 mbps.
Ours is 1849 peso a month they kept our monthly fee the same and just gave us the new service. I think Jim might mean 2000 PHP a month.
299 mbps is incredibly fast you don't have any internet acceleration software installed do you? If you do it can result in tests giving a false reading.
No. I don't get that every time I do a speedtest ,it's so erratic I don't believe the test are accurate. I had zero connection in the afternoon for an hour. I'd settle for a true consistent 50 Mbps but I know I wont. PLDT are bent. I had an iptv service, between 6 and 10 pldt would throttle my connection, peak time.
Are you using Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test They are probably the best current worldwide speedtest, some kinds of caching software can affect the results and leave you with these wild swings, on the other hand they might really just have problems delivering a consistent service.
Yes Jim. It might be my location it's like a jungle here and my line from my router to the pldt cabinet weaves in and out of bamboo and trees. And we have had a few storms in the last month, not sure the weather would affect the speeds. Last time the line broke pldt took 6 days to send someone round to fix it. Plus there's major road works on the highway. (road widening)
I am not sure that the Philippines has undersea cables between all the islands it might but it would be expensive laying a full network around the country, some islands might rely on point to point microwave dishes and that could struggle in bad weather. We've had numpties causing explosions by digging through a mains power cable here that took out Vodafone O2 and other networks around my work for a week.
