Your internet connection speed

[Dr.Kamiya]

Walang buyer? Hindi recycle tulad ng copper?

Ma-bend lang fiber optic cable minsan useless na eh, lalo pa if someone forcibly removes it without proper care in handling.

In terms of raw materials I guess meron sometimes copper or aluminum used as a strength member, but far less than in electrical wire. Otherwise the core is just glass which is probably cheaper to make from raw silicon or existing glass panes rather than extracting the relatively small amount inside a fiber optic cable.

[papi smith]

Ma-bend lang fiber optic cable minsan useless na eh, lalo pa if someone forcibly removes it without proper care in handling.

In terms of raw materials I guess meron sometimes copper or aluminum used as a strength member, but far less than in electrical wire. Otherwise the core is just glass which is probably cheaper to make from raw silicon or existing glass panes rather than extracting the relatively small amount inside a fiber optic cable.

Wow buti binanggit mo, now I know I can't bend it pala when I organize the cables near it.

[Monseratto]

Any PLDT fibre users here? Their 150 mbps plan got a big boost... now going at 400 mbps.|

[carxynogen]

Any PLDT fibre users here? Their 150 mbps plan got a big boost... now going at 400 mbps.|

Same here, ganyan speed din.
Regret tuloy why nag avail pa sa +100MBPs speed boost nila on a +99/mo add on.

[Dr.Kamiya]

PLDT is pretty smart about keeping their plans equitable naman. If the lower tier gets a speed boost, the higher plans will usually get a corresponding boost as well so that the people on those plans don't feel "lugi".

This is a friend's connection on an old plan that got phased out. He's paying significantly less than plan 9499 (Gigabit), but PLDT pro-rated his speed to around 800Mbps.

[gls2001]

Checked the current 50Mbps 1699 plan last night.



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I have no doubts in my mind that they're bypassing bandwidth restrictions going to their Speedtest servers so that everyone will get artificially high bandwidth results for the purposes of their PR campaigns.

Because of that, I only use Speedtest to check if there's anything wrong between PLDT and my network.

For that matter, I've lost track and don't even know what I should be getting for Plan 2899. All I know is, I typically don't get less than 400 mbps.... 300mbps at worst.... using any of PLDT/Smart servers. Anything less and there's definitely something wrong and I call them.

[Dr.Kamiya]

You can manually select a server not under PLDT. We have some apps hosted sa US West so I often ping ISPs near Cali where the submarine cables terminate.

For me the acid test if I can download from Steam (or Origin, Ubisoft, Epic etc), Microsoft, or the high seas and get the rated speed. Usually kasi once you get to the 300+Mbps range you're limited by the websites you're downloading from already.



This is pretty solid proof that the connection was going at around 750Mbps since Steam was able to peak at 80MB/s.

For the most part I'm happy with even 200Mbps. Even large downloads finish within the day, any more than that and it's the hard disk space that becomes an issue.

[thearsenal1205]

You can manually select a server not under PLDT. We have some apps hosted sa US West so I often ping ISPs near Cali where the submarine cables terminate.

For me the acid test if I can download from Steam (or Origin, Ubisoft, Epic etc), Microsoft, or the high seas and get the rated speed. Usually kasi once you get to the 300+Mbps range you're limited by the websites you're downloading from already.



This is pretty solid proof that the connection was going at around 750Mbps since Steam was able to peak at 80MB/s.

For the most part I'm happy with even 200Mbps. Even large downloads finish within the day, any more than that and it's the hard disk space that becomes an issue.

i also getting 10mb/s peak right now when downloading at steam.