Thursday, October 04, 2007

Randy and I didn't go anywhere today.

A Bayantel lineman came over in the morning and tested our connection using their bandwidth checker that doesn't tell the actual bandwidth speed: "Your download speed is: 988.49 kbps." Huh? If that is my actual bandwidth speed, how come I cannot open any sites, and most of the time, pages were timing out?

The lineman hooked up directly the dsl cable unto his laptop but just the same, he got poor bandwidth reading. He was not done yet pinging the network when his laptop battery went dead. He wanted to use Randy's laptop to continue the test but I told him several times the physical connections had been checked and it turned okay. Either the problem was from their cabinet or network port.

The BayanDSL box where my DSL cable was hooked up has a pending legal case VS a homeowner who filed charges against BayanDSL for failure to comply with the agreement. BayanDSL pays millions in pesos to property owners who entered into agreement with the ISP to build their cabinet inside their property line. When another cabinet was added, on top of the first cabinet, the homeowner filed a complaint and sue BayanDSL in court, and that's how my internet nightmares started.

Legal cases in the Philippines takes several years before it will be resolved. Being a BayanDSL Net Basic business plan subscriber, why nvolved me and the rest of the subscribers in that legal case by keeping my internet connection hooked up in that questionable cabinet? I subscribed to a stable 1 mbps plan at Php 3,360 monthly rate... why give me a bandwidth speed ideal for 384 kbps subscribers only, who pays Php 899 a month?

Earlier, I had this reading: "Your current bandwidth reading is: 19.11840 kbps, which means you can download at 2.39000 KB/sec." My God, this is worst than dial-up!

Randy is pissed off with my internet connection and I am fed up calling BayanDSL hotline 4112000 to remind them I am subscribed to a business plan in a residential area... thankfully, I didn't have a cyber cafe business, otherwise, I will be out of business...

Today is the 9th day of my BayanDSL nightmare, NTC, please help meeeeee!!!