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PLDT is Limiting Internet Speeds

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• published: 17 Mar 2014
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A video explaining that PLDT is INDEED limiting your internet speed. Limiting download speeds to be specific. The download speed is capped. It is called: INTERNET TRAFFIC SHAPING Everyone should be aware. Read the explanation and be enlightened if you don't know what is happening... We are subscribed to a 3.5 Megabits per second plan so... "we should experience" a download speed" of atleast 350 Kilobytes per second" based on what the people from PLDT are saying. But in my case, "I NEVER experienced a download speed MORE THAN 150 Kilobytes per second". The maximum is "always at 150 Kilobytes per second". I have checked it on a 24/7 basis, all time of the day, I left a unit(computer) open just to test, before I decided to make this video. According to their technical persons, the lowest you should get is 60% of the highest speed. In that sense, "60% of 3.5 Megabits per second is 2.1 Megabits per second." 2.1 Megabits (Mb/s) per second should have a download speed of atleast 210 Kilobytes per second (KB/s), based on what the people from pldt are saying. But in reality, it should be 262.5 Kilobytes per second (KB/s). http://www.google.com/search?&q;=2.1+megabits+to+kilobytes Atmost, 3.5 Megabits per second (Mb/s) should have a speed of 437.5 Kilobytes per second (KB/s). http://www.google.com/search?&q;=3.5+megabits+to+kilobytes --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 year nag-progress yang problema na yan: - nag-umpisa sa random disconnections - sumunod 'ung may oras na 'ung tuloy-tuloy nadidisconnect internet every 5mins (mga 6pm-10pm, worse until 12mn) - pagkatapos nyan, naging sobrang intermittent naman 'ung connection namin - tapos dahil nga walang pumupunta agad na taga-repair ng DSL samin, pumunta ko sa PLDT office para baka sakaling ma-prioritize 'ung problema namin kasi mahigit 5months ng existing, 'di pa rin nila inaayos ng tama - tapos may pumuntang taga PLDT dito, ginawa nya pinalitan 'ung modem namin tapos may kausap sya na nasa server side na nagkakabit din ng kable ng connection namin dun, pina-pair nya ng maayos - pinaalala ko sa kanila na 3.5 Mbps 'ung binabayaran namin, sabi nung nag-aayos sa server side, "tatawag na lang kami mamaya" - tapos naayos na 'ung internet namin, stable na, hindi nadidisconnect kaso ginawa namang 150 KBps ung sagad na download speed - inabot ako ng 3 weeks na nirereport yang capped speed na yan bago nila ayusin talaga resulta: - maayos na internet ko ngayon, kapag nagkakaproblema, tinatawag ko agad kasi 'un din 'ung sabi nung DSL repairman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: "My Internet connection is already fixed by PLDT. How? I called them continuously, on a daily basis. For how long? My connection started to have problems from August 2012 (problems include of intermittent connection and getting random disconnections). It was finally fixed last August 2013. So it took 1-year of continuously complaining on their Facebook page, on their Twitter account, and calling daily on their 172 hotline."