It's that internet speed isn't it!

I was speaking to her last week and the internet was fine, and the last few days its those robotic voices - the wifi broadband speeds in the provinces do not stack up to those in the first world do they?

Frequent brown outs etc

So what do you do?

We used to just accept that it was poor quality, and use facebook messenger to speak on the phone without video. And it's free and doesn't need a wifi signal.

We have bad internet connection as well espcially during the day so what I did is stay awake until 2 am and by this time the connection is better already since my family is asleep already and I'm the only one who is connected.

Sometimes I sleep early and wake up 4 am just to talk to my fiance with a better signal.

We had to put up with that for 2 years and now we're together and we bid goodbye to internet relationship. Now we're both enjoying fast internet connection but don't need to use it to communicate since we're together.

It's all about sacrifice.

It's all about remembering that it's only a temporary thing. And to try to stay reasonably sane throughout it.

Not too bad for the boonies...

When I were a lad,
Put stamps on the letter, and two months later the reply would drop through the letter box.

Them were the days!

I get 50 down and 10 up. The max on my plan is 52 down and 10 up. 4g is noticeably quicker even when just browsing the forum.

The slow speeds in the Philippines are something that we have all had to live with, give it a few years and things may improve.

So in other words the likes of us will be six feet under by the time the Philippines gets a decent internet connection

Can businesses in the Philippines pay a premium for a better connection, especially the ones in major cities where they might have a better internet infrastructure?

From a forum perspective the fact we are UK based means a relatively slower speed for users in Pinas. I did a check on a service that determined loading speeds in different countries, Pinas was 3 seconds longer. I don't know if it was actual or calculated but latency issues either way.

Yes something is different with the Globe service in the last 2 months..My upload was always about 0.25 before.
The speed I get is fine for what I need...The big issue here these days is the ridiculously low data caps. Highest they will give me on my domestic LTE wireless acc. is 50 Gigs..
(shakes head with anger)
Our DSL business connection gives us 10 gigs per day..

Someone just posted me this from public wifi area in Greenbelt Makati..