Late this year, I had a very important discussion with my siblings. I’m sick and tired of frequent Internet site blockings in my office. And heck, I think I can earn a little bit now, maybe it’s time to have our own decent Internet connection at home. Yes, we’re that poor, we can’t afford Internet, even a landline connection. And of course, our family hates bills.
Last month, I asked my brother to inquire for a PLDT landline application. I’m upset with the requirements. My brother just started working so he has no tax forms or the equivalent. I asked my father to provide the documents but he doesn’t like the idea of aside from the electric, water and cable bills, we need to yadda, yadda, yadda.. pay bills even if I’ll hand him the money every month. But I still believe a landline’s a basic. If ever we’d rather quit a DSL plan that suck, we at least could continue with a bearable prepaid dialup.
I personally don’t like the idea of lock-in periods. I’m the type of person who’d rather curse silently a dumb service than cry at their customer service. And I heard that Smart Bro’s reception is bad on our area (Marilao, Bulacan). We’re waiting for the Globe Broadband to be available in our area (they said to wait around 3rd week of November but we haven’t checked again). But I heard similar complaints on Globe, people still recommends PLDT myDSL. Wait, isn’t PLDT and Smart a join venture? Maybe the difference is since anything wireless, always suffers a little compare to wired versions. And, since it uses USB cable, it will transfer files slower.
Now, I heard that there’ll be a dongle-based connection, the SmartBro PlugIt! It uses a USB modem for 3G connection which means, I don’t need to buy an expensive 3G phone and I could spend my money instead on upgrading a new laptop. But then again, reading all those bad experiences with the SmartWifi and SmartBro (PlugIt’s bothers), I still get doubt. Imagine a suffering for two years. I might just lose faith again to the outside world.
I read on the forums that these lock-in plans really limit users to how much bandwidth you can get. So, if I share my service with my neighbor, and he’s heavily downloading stuff, our connection would suffer too. If that is the case, I wish telcos would just allot a fixed bandwidth to each users. Then I’d gladly switch to prepaid service where I’d pay my additionals. But please, give us what we paid for. A decent service would do. Promise, I won’t download Korean movies. I won’t download A LOT of Korean movies.
Then there’s the news that Sun Cellular will have their 3G ready by, uhm, mid-2007. Where is it? I haven’t used a Sun sim but my brother does. I think he has no problem with it since it’s his full-time sim for years. But, I’d never know.
I’ll be researching for an Internet connection, so I might not post a lot this time.
Raise your Hands!