If PLDT is trying to impress the hell out of me - it's succeeding!

[Adel]

Is it just me?

I have a PLDT myDSL Personal Plan, and the best I get is 32 Kbps.

I woke up and started surfing a half hour ago, and tried to download the Danny Deckchair trailer from the Quicktime trailer site, and was stunned to have the large version completely download - in 40 seconds! It immediately started playing in a window as soon as I hit the 'Click to Play' button.

Used to take me 5 to 10 minutes.

Thinking it was a fluke, I got something again, and the large version of the Alamo trailer came in at under a minute.

Started watching my net meters and ran some tests.

Was shocked to see my bandwidth burtsting at 1 to 1.5 Mbps!

Used 2Wire's test and was getting as high as 2049 kbps.

Netifice reported that my bandwidth was at 1.3 Mbps.

Bandwidth Place said I was hitting 1.6 megabits/second.

My little net meter applet in the menu bar was regularly staying at the 900 Kbps range.

Ran the tests over and over and over and the results were consistent.

Am I going crazy? I'm downloading stuff randomly, and I'm not dreaming. It's still there now, and I hope this lasts.

Are any of you getting the same speeds?

[caloysam]

Wow! Let's just hope that the provider doesn't conk-out. PLDT often goes down during weekends, in my experience. [Fingers Crossed] Maybe they're making up for their sometimes bad service?:drunk: hehehehe

[Adel]

Saw the recent posts in the PLDT myDSL thread, and it seems that it's a common phenomenon.

Yahoo!

(Waiting for the other shoe to drop).

[Mxzylplyk]

I noticed this too since 6 this morning, although I'm not getting speeds like yours, it is faster than what I usually have.
Posted it here

[mistermoya]

Really I don't notice anything different....hmmm...:dry:

[bagwis]

Congrats, Adel! I was just turned down by Bayantel because the Mayaman area is still not dsl activated. I had my second thoughts rushing to the PLDT office in East Ave. because of the poor reviews myDSL have been getting from this site, but what the heck! I applied yesterday and am still waiting for them to survey our area. This indeed is good news and I hope I can get broadband connection asap. Medyo na excite naman ako sa balitang ito.

And by the way, I hope you don't mind me asking. Which plan are you on?

TIA

[Edited on 4-30-2004 by bagwis]

[jobm]

hmmm... this is something i have to try myself, considering i only get around 30kbps for a mydsl professional subscription.:dry:

[directX]

They may already have the necessary equipment to provide the 384 and above bandwidth for myDSL subscribers. They may be tweaking/configuring their system - hence we're getting greater than T1 connections!

[togi]

I just had to check this post out.. was really thinking of switching
to another dsl provider.. this is definitely as good reason to stay.

i checked mydsl at 9:40 am today and this is what i got..

[caloysam]

Argh! I wanna go home and use my DSL connection Here at work it's a little less than 20kbps :dry: Add to that, I'm using a stupid sloooow desktop pc.

[Still keeping fingers crossed that PLDT server remains up]