03 September 2007

Checking if Local Telcos Deliver What You Expect

Posted by Rico 14164 days ago
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If you’re blogging at home somewhere in the Philippines, you’ve probably signed up for a residential DSL plan. Of course, your service provider usually doesn’t offer any guarantees that you’ll always be enjoying a certain amount of bandwidth—such promises are reserved for business broadband plans. But if you’re paying for something on a regular basis, it’s reasonable to expect a consistent level of performance.

Which is why Speedtest.net is a great tool to see if local telcos are answering the call for connectivity. Just visit the website, and you’ll be treated to a stylized Flash interface that tests your connection’s download and upload speeds. And you can even share the results for everyone to see. As you can see from the picture above, I recently enjoyed 214kbps download and 108kbps upload speeds. Pretty reasonable for my house’s 256kbps DSL plan.

So, how does your connection measure up? Does it meet your expectations?

Filed: The Filipino Web
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4 Responses to “Checking if Local Telcos Deliver What You Expect”

noemi :

Checking my wi-fi connection only as I am lazy to check the desktop speed.

My Globe Broadband (up to 1 MBps) shows 623kbps download & 324 upload. Globe says that speed should hit at least 60%. remember they didn’t promise 1 MBps. it’s up to 1 MBps. tsk tsk fine print.

I have to check my PLDT and Smart Bro but they are usually within 50% of the promised speed.

I guess I am satisfied if it reaches at least 60% but below that ,come hell break loose. I demand utmost and prompt customer service and I often get it. I harass them . Tech support are amazed they are always at my home within a day of my report. Sometimes I wonder if these tech guys google if I am a blogger…hehe

E.X .Classmate :

This is a more reliable meter:

http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/

by InternetFrog.com

Rico :

I’m not sure, but I think it checking through WiFi wouldn’t matter anyways, since the maximum speed of your wireless router is a lot more than your actual connection. :)

Now you have another tool to keep your service providers honest! Mwahahahaha!

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