The Four-eyed Journal

Where have I been during these past 5 days of being offline?
I was calling up Globelines Broadband customer support service in order to follow up on the restoration of their “unlimited” internet service in our little corner of Silang, Cavite.
It all started back in March 28, 2007 when the broadband service was disrupted due to [...]

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?

OMFG!

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?

Last night, I was so frustrated because from around 7pm to almost 11pm, my connection was just useless. The only site I could access is my Gmail-powered e-mail. However downloading attachments were at 0.4-1kb/s! OMFG! Uploading the files needed by my professor? Forget it, I just used my USB thumb drive and would have to manually give the file later this day. I wasn’t able to do my homework and my research because of this. Would my professors accept my excuse that ‘my internet connection at home wasn’t working last night’? Hell no! Now I understand that the earthquake was really no one’s fault and we’re lucky that very few were hurt or killed and that, at least, internet connections have been restored - to a very, very limited capacity.

Though I’ve been wondering and have come to suspect that Globelines has been the worst affected or most ill-prepared among the broadband providers in the country. A great shame and disappointment really, thinking that I actually bragged the I’m quite happy about their consistent high connection speeds and satisfactory customer support, until now that is.