Has Globelines broadband finally recovered?
While writing the 2nd meme tag I got from Kars, I was forced to restart my dsl modem because of the crappy connection that was so crappy it would die for a few minutes. Surprisingly, the write post page loaded in just under 15 seconds! Has the connections improved?
There was only one way to find out; the Speakeasy Speedtest. Amazingly, here are the results:
Another test, this time from a server in Seattle, Washington.
Is it true? Am I just seeing things? Or this improvement in the connection just a spurt of the moment and it would go back to its crappy, slower-than-dial-up state?
Turning to another connection speed test site, Speedtest.net (which is closely related to Speakeasy.net) here are the results I got:
So good to be true and something all of us have been waiting for. For a few final tests, I opened up the few sites I know of to be bandwidth-intensive, Inquirer.net.
Not only did it loaded in just under 12 seconds, it carried this news story that’s worth rejoicing for; RP ISPs recovering from slow Internet. Let’s just hope that this improvement would just go on and on.
For the final test, I’m off to YoutTube! 
As a side note
Modern day mobile phones include advanced features to replace digital camera and GPS devices. Such features facilitate user and make it easy to interact with cell device. Cell phones now have pda keyboard like large keypad for easy text input. Connectivity features are also increasing as network technology grows. Like, Bluetooth support allows you to attach your verizon cell phone and other devices with network printer without cables.
Alot of people posting here seem to be impressed by looking at just the download and upload speeds, What they don’t seem to notice is the ping in most cases. The main problem with globelines is the ping (latency). Pinging to a node 50 miles away should be somewhere in the 10ms range but i never see anything lower than 75ms. Pinging the same node at different times will sometimes result in a much higher ping in the 200+ range. Pinging random server reveals anywhere from 300 to 1500 ms. Clearly this connection is not good enough to do the stuff broadband connections are supposed to be able to deliver like online gaming.
I too have noticed the customer service is not the same as it used to be, now it takes hours of calling to get a call center rep to answer, having to sit on the phone listening to the same 10 sec advertisement blasting in my ear over and over again for hours makes me want to cancel my account.
Will globelines ever fix their latency problems ? if i had to guess i would say no.
Gonna have to wait until some cable providers expand to the major cities and if they provide a better connection at the same price it will put all these crappy broadband pretending dsl providers out of the market quick fast and in a hurry.
nakakainis ang globe.. d2 samen sa bulacan 2wing umaga ok pero pag dating ng prime time don na nagkakaproblema paputol putol.. nakakaazar lalo na pag nag DDL ako.. bwicit pls naman alam kong nababasa to ng mga taga globe na yan paki ayos naman asap wala pa akong 1 week sa globe ganito na inaabot ko… kung hindi ninyo kayang tumupad sa mga pangako niyo e mag sarado nalang kayo.. =<
Bwisit ang Globe dito sa may area ng Ortigas Extension, Pasig!
Ilang linggo nang papatay-patay ang internet. Pati landline hindi magamit leche!
wala po bang makakatulong sa amin??? imbestigador! hoy gising! xxx! asan kau. tulungan mo naman kaming mga subscriber ng globe. para kaming hinohold.up
GRABE ANG GLOBE BRO. WITHIN ALMOSTH 2 MONTHS ALMOST 5 TIMES LANG AKO NAGSUCCEED MAKACONNECT SA AMIN SA SAN ISIDRO, N.E. NAKAKADISMAYA. DI LANG AKO ANG VICTIM, PATI KAPITBAHAY KO. NAKAKABWISET. KAHIT PISO DI DAPAT MAGBAYAD. SAYANGGGGGG
Globe is the worst nightmare to all on-line gamers every hour reset awts!!!! Really sucks it suddenly disconnects while playing. Globe is excellent in accepting payments but not in service….GO TO HELL GLOBE………….
There is no improvement whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grabe nung una bgong kabit ung globe broadband nmin ang bilis kaya nga ung plan 1295 ang kinuha ko pero habang 2matagal sobrang bagal n pakicheck nman server
ganun din sakin, nung unang kabit mabilis,nung nagpakabit na mga katabing bahay ko bumagal nako. gets mo???
I mean the above apply to GLOBE BROADBAND
System maintenance and system restoration according to their technical staff..what the hell it happens since January 2009 up to the present..internet connection is not stable almost everyday there is a disruption sometimes duration per day is more than 12 hours…
My globe broadband is always down!!!. . magkakaron lang siguro mga 5mins tapos down nanaman. . ASAR TALAGA ANG GLOBE NA YAN!!! I have a 1mb internet connection pero when i test my speed ni wala man sa talampakan ng 1mb, 30kbps to 10kbps downspeed ko . . I am working pa naman as home based graphic designer.
Tumawag ako sa CS, kesyo sabi nagdadagdag daw sila ng cell sites kaya daw naapektohan ung internet ko!! whoahh!!! what a nice aliby!!! I’am a graduate of I.T. and major ko networking . . Akala nila pwede nila lokohin lahat ng subscriber nila. .. Im really pissed of with this!!!
napaka bagal ng globe ko, sa sobrang bagal kahit nga yung google.com at yahoo mail ay hindi pa maaccess, masmabute pa yung dial-up ko noon, nakakapag email ako, pero dito hindi, laging connection timeout.
meron ga palang itinatayong globe tower sa lugar baryo namin, sana bumilis na kapag natapos na yung pagtatayo, sasabihan ko kayo kapag tapos na at mabilis na
grrr damn you globe company
Mas matindi ang SmartBro-ken. Almost one month na ako wala connection. Tech support nila keeps on saying the same things wala naman nangyayari. Di rin sila pumupunta to change the antenna. Magpapa-disconnect na ako ng service.
Globelines Broadband is a scam!!! Letting us customers experience their 7-day trial period of real broadband speed then they will tie us in their 1yr bond then after that the HELL ON EARTH of internet begins.
I am experiencing problems with globelines broadband… I subscribed to their 512kbps wireless broadband package with wireless phone (PHP1295/mo.)… they gave me 7 days trial period and within that trial period I was amazed with the speed… pumapalo from 700+ kbps to 1+ mb… kaya pina-activate ko kaagad. Pero eto na ang kalbaryo… right after the 7-day trial period nagsimula nang maging intermitent ang connection speed nila either super bagal (I even got 5bps or lower!!!) o totally walang connection. Lagi ako nagrereklamo sa CS nila pero wala naman sila ginawa kundi palitan yung modem na wala naman nagbago ganon pa din naman problema. My work is related to IT and I know that there is no problem at my side (hardware, softwares, cabling, etc…). Kakainis na talaga ang service ng globelines… feeling ko naloko lang ako kase nakatali ako ngayon sa kanila for 1yr dahil sa 1yr bond na kasama sa package.
i checked my globe broadband internet download speed it’s 79kbps and upload speed of 10kbps. ang galing galing este ang bagal bagal! booo to globe broadband. it’s a big mistake. it’s been 2 weeks of slow globe internet system. i’m pissed off. i’m heading to globe office first thing in the morning to shout at them while surrendering their rubbish modem.
Globe broadband s*cks. imagine, our pldt-vibe dial-up i guess is faster than this !@# globe broadband
My broadband connection with Globe in now quite ok but before and after the eartquake it was so bad. Pero and di mo maintindihan ay bakit young neighbour ko bagong kabit ang ganda ganda ng connection while me, ive got a measly 5.2 kbps connection buti pa yung dial-up nila 50kbps. Now its ok and it doesnt go down to 384 kbps it goes up to 500+ kbps.
i just want to ask if there was an overpricing in the proposed contract between the zte and philippines?
I am looking forward to this article because I have been trying to find more Clobelines blogs to subscribe to.
Globe wireless internet has this free trial for 7 days right now. Para sa wireless internet na 512kbps. We’re currently trying it and so far sobrang okay naman ang results ng speed tests from speedtest.net. Usually nasa mga 300+ kbps ang download speed and minsan umaabot pa ng 500 kbps pataas! ang glitch nga lang is that upload speed mga less than a hundred lang most of the time, or ok na ba yun?
Mabilis din ang pag-apply. same day na nagpass kami ng application ay binigyan na kami agad nung wireless router na parang kasing laki lang ng phone na madaling dalhin (unlike sa smart bro na pupuntahan ka pa sa house to install your antenna). The next day na-activate na yung internet! If after 7 days hindi mo magustuhan ang service, you have to return the router to them and tell them you don’t want to avail of the service before the seven days is over para hindi ka padalahan ng bill.
Date: October 9, 2007
I have been having major problems with Globe line Broadband for over 4 months, and now with the 5th Globe tech visits at my home! Last week was the last tech at my house who told me that Globe reduced the DSL speeds in half. Before the reduction my true speed was around 100kb on down-loads and my service plan was the 768kb speed. You would loss your connection about 6 times a day.
Also I live in Davao City which is a few worlds apart from Metro-Manila–so the problem may be a local problem, meaning any place outside of Metro Manila. After all Davao City is the 3rd largest city in the Philippines with over a few million people, but that means nothing to Globe or the Philippine Government.
Globe over the past several months had reduced speeds by over 50% and are now limiting your access to USA sites–they are redirecting your search to Philippine or approved Philippine sites. Also now their 768K service plan runs at only 56K for the past 3 months –what a joke! Censor, Censor and censor! They must be working with Fools and censoring your views–so maybe they are trying to stop price compares so high goods prices in the Philippine will not look so bad!.
Do not try to watch video news above 56KB since it will stop many
times or no picture. At 56K it stops only a few times when it works with a bad video picture! Also down loading data, is mostly at 7kbps, so a 25mb file will take you about 4 hours if the line stays up—but mostly the line goes down before the file is down-loaded.
Frank
Former Vise President of Operations for a USA Computer Technology Company for 15 years.
well based on my experience with Smart Bro, when the time i was having a problem with the connection I reported to them immediately and guess what…48 years in the making muna bago nila inayos.. kung gaano kabagal ang connection Ganun din kabagal yung serbisyo nila when it comes to tech support..at may hotline pa silang nalalaman aba naku naman kakantahan ka lang ng theme song nila gang mamaga yung tenga mo sa paulit ulit na kantahan nila..eh wala namang sasagot sayo to help you with the problem kaya eto si ikaw mega trouble shoot at nagrurunong runungan na lang makuha lang yung connection na gusto mo. At may paltik yata yung data base station kasi palagi na lang may problema dun.. at eto pa wag ka.. if you ask for the rebates naka nang!!! daming palusot ni Ateh… wala raw records ng paghingi ng rebates eh samantalang inugat na ko sa kakaintay mula sa tawag ng Smart di man sila nagtext to inform na they want to discuss something pala… so I end up making bayad na lang wala eh…ikaw pa tatarayan.. well kung sino man sa taga Smart dyan..weve been patronizing SMART eversince.. so kindly give to us the good service that we deserve…AS in walang plastikan..wala namang lamangan SMART ka eh…
guys alin ba mas mgnda pldt mydsl o globebroadbsnd?
I think the main problem with globelines as I’ve experience was the incompetency of their tech. people.Always intermetent connection was due to TAMAD na tech.personel nila. As Ive experienced,they would just go to my house then sit in front of my computer then thats it…type a site…wooola pag na-open ung site gawa na ng report then call sa globe to close the repair,actually I have observed that everytime they go to my place but still same problem… PUTOL-PUTOL AT WALANG KWENTANG CONNECTION PRIN!!!! SAME PRIN SINCE THEY INSTALLED IT LAST APRIL.
But ITS BEEN MORE THAN A month na since the last technician that came to my house that solve that PROBLEM… IBA YUNG NAKITA KO THE WAY HE WORK….HE FINISHED THE REPAIR FOR ABOUT 40 MINUTES UNLIKE DUN SA IBANG TECHNICIAN NA NAGPUPUNTA AROUND 5 MINUTES LANG THEN UUPO LANG SA HARAP NG PC..BUT WITH THIS GUY..HE CHECKED THE “FACILITIES” WIRINGS FROM THE HOUSE UPTO “D.P.” HANGGANG SA CABINET. SINCE THEN MY CONNECTION WAS GREAT DI NA BUMIBITAW AND ANYTIME OF THE DAY MGANDA CONNECTION. Kya I think if Globelines tech personel are just doing their JOB ng TAMA that problem will be SOLVED!!!
yah i tried globe wireless broadband…
but i think globe cant satisfy my needs because at first it is fast(this where i can play online games… then after a week…internet slows down and poof no internet connection…
what a service…
the problem now is the service of the internet here in the philippines…
mas mabuti pa ung dial up ko dati nakakapag youtube ako…
Globelines has this new promo – Wireless Broadband. Similar to SMARTBro? Has anyone tried Globe wireless broadband?
Alam ko kung gaano kalubha ang problema sa Smart Bro. May 3 akong kaibigan na subscriber at talagang hindi sila masaya sa serbisyong natatanggap nila.
Pero may mga kakilala naman ako na wala masyadong problema sa kanilang SmartBro, totoo ngang depende din sa kung nasaang lugar ka. Pero hindi ito dahilan para mabawasan at magkulang ang serbisyo at suporta sa ating mga nagbabayad sa mga ISPs na yan.
Magtanong-tanong ka muna sa mga kapitbahay o ka-barangay mo dyan sa inyo, dun sa mga may broadband o dsl sa bahay at tingnan mo kung anong service ang mas maganda sa lugar niyo.
Sana ay mapanood mo ang episode ng The Probe sa Miyerkules, marami pang ibang subscriber sa ibang kumpanya.
guys, globe has this promo. Plan 995 up to 512 kbps. Do u think i should avail of the service? I am using smartbro now and i am so pissed off with the service. Mabgal tlg sometimes it’s slower than dial-up. I live at Pureza Sta Mesa Manila.
I am SO… pissed off with globe broadband..
lucky me i got the 267ms LATENCY.. you guys got a 1K MS for latency?? thats ridiculous… do you guys know that DSL are Digital Subscriber Line??? those Telco TECH support are so Stupid, to say that the line is CONGESTED, thats why the internet is slow.. thats so not true.. its DSL.. we are subscribe to a DEDICATED LINE!!! JUST FOR the INTERNET!! i got a stupid report in speedtest.net 534Kb/s down, and 98Kb/s up.. and like i said.. 267ms Latency.. when i play online games.. it gets so LAGGY.. even when just browsing you tube.. the stupid connection is slow.. i hate DSL here in the philippines.. TELCO’s are big joke here.. to think that 384? yeah sure.. stupid phone telephony Infrastructure.. just as i thought before i set up my Broadband with globe.. im just gonna finish my “contract”.. then away i go.. seriously.. purely cons… disgusting… sigh..
my minimum bandwith with smart bro is 47o kbps and maximum as 506 kbps and im paying only 788 for that… its much cheaper i dont need to switch on 999 for it. i was a poineering subscriber of smart bro and its provided me satisfaction services in my internet connection. i have some negative feed back in globelines from my friends and neighbors… at least globelines must provide some scheme to make their services more convient to all subscriber…
its natural that their is some interference in using wireless like smart bro but considering the wired lines of globelines… also have losses and data traffic during the travel of data… i simply dont understand… why it is very difficult to globelines connecting in router… unlike to smart bro its users friendly…
comaparing with smart bro and globelines… i preffer smart bro… i guess globelines is still on experimental period… their connection is not so good enough… even their technical support are not that good to accoomdate you in times you need them… after the installation they just leave you empty handed…
i tried the speedtest of my globelines connection. here’s the result.. download is 666kb/s and upload is 39kb/s
@ meili:
Globelines has been doing fine this past month. Pero may mga ilang araw na kailangan kong magrestart ng modem para bumalik ang connection.
Suggest ko na matanong-tanong ka sa mga kapitbahay mo dyan para malaman kung ok ang globe o yung ibang providers.
@ Joseph Montalbo:
I tend to agree. Though there are a few hick-ups during this past days. Though I never experience that “peak hours” effect.
I’m also considering switching to PLDT this July, just to try what they have to offer.
Maybe it’s safe to say that Globelines Broadband is on the way to recovery. The connection is more stable now than it was a couple of weeks ago, and my download speeds now reach 200kbps on some sites (I am on a 384-kbps connection), although it could drop down to 70kbps on peak hours.
We’re planning to switch to PLDT once our 2-year lock-in for the broadband expires.
san dito ung mga taga pedro gil/UN area? maganda ba connection?. haha. kasi gusto ko magpakabit ng globe eh. parang mas ok kesa sa smart.. mejo lag smart ngaun dahil sa ulan. tas ung friend ko naman sabi mabilis daw globe, nasa QC area sha.. eh cguro depende lang sa gmagamit. well mablis din nman smart pero kasi rainy season, wala connection pag umuulan. ok na ba globe ngaun??
Now they keep disconnecting, and no one answers their customer care hotline for some weird and awful reason.
My speedtest using Globe, plan 995(756)
@ baltik: If the Taiwan earthquake didn’t happen I’d strongly urge you to sign up for Globelines broadband.
Unfortunately, the earthquake did happen and it opened my eyes to a lot things not so good about Globelines broadband.
Some of those realizations:
1) They were among the most ill-prepared for the Taiwan earthquake. It took them so long to restore their services to normal.
2) They want you to pay your bills even if the due date is still far away. You fail to pay, the just cut your service off. Plus they quickly charge you with an overdue fee and a reconnection fee.
3) Their customer support is one of the worst. Takes you 30 mins before someone at the tech support answers your call. Worst, they don’t answer and simply drop your call.
4) Their customer support representatives love to leave you with empty promises, like your service would be restored within 24-hours or the technical crew will be there in 24-hours and they’d call you back, but all those are just empty promises.
The good point:
The quality of connection they offer is quite good. It’s near the speed of what they said they’ll offer. This is in comparison to PLDT’s myDSL and SmartBro.
Their new promo of P995 broadband + landline is good enough, the speed though is the basic 384kpbs speed.
ok n po ba ung speed ng globe broadband?
we would like to know if GLOBE BROADBAND especially TECHNICAL 24/7 cust service HOTLINE is also affected by taiwan earthquake!!! Its really frustrating…
yep, a 9.2 modem speed!!
mines still the same as am writing this post, took me about 3 mins to load this whole pages..wtf
:oops:
just imagine we’re living in the 1990s with a very slow modem
So I guess the improvements on my connection speeds is an isolated case, huh?
Tsk tsk tsk, but here’s a catch, last night around 10pm I checked again my bandwidth speeds and they were back to their crappy slower-then-dial-up speeds.:shock:
Everything sped up this morning and would do tests again tonight to see if this is a recurring pattern. The bottom line is, Globelines broadband still sucks.
read Globelines still hasn’t recovered…
nope, still is the same as last week’s… sppedest.net results shoed that i get 79kbos download and 51kbps upload… and i was doing this at 1:21 in the morning… you can imagine how this would look like during the morning… will test again in the morning and will let you know…
Mine hasn’t recovered yet. Still crappy.
feeling ko nakarecover narin ang PLDT myDSL eh… feeling ko lang! hehe
yeah, i think globelines has finally recovered, but i still can’t access youtube…
I feel the surge of bandwidth too this past week. My downloads reach peak at 100-120 kibibytes per second [but has 30-40 kiB/s average for the whole day] on PLDT MyDSL Plan 999. Browsing sites still slows down during 9-11 PM peak times, but I think it has always been like that.