Your report is due tomorrow. You still have a lot of things to research on the Internet, and suddenly, it takes 2 minutes for a web page to load. You keep on refreshing the website to no avail. Annoyed and frustrated, you open your Facebook account to rant about the slow connection, but even that proves to be a struggle since that site would refuse to load too. We’ve all been there. Ours is a world that depends on the Internet for so many things that it becomes a necessity for some. In my case, I am an academic writer, and my job requires me to stay connected. If the pages take too long to load, it would take me forever to finish my projects. So my frustration over slow Internet connections has reached a whole new level.
Last month, we decided to upgrade our connection to PLDT Fibr. The promised speed is 18 to 20 mpbs, and we had to pay Php1000 more compared to our old plan. One month had passed, and here is my experience so far.
The pages don’t load as fast as I expected them to. I really didn’t feel that much difference with our old plan and with the Fibr. However, the real win with the upgrade is the download speed. It takes just a few minutes for 1 GB+ files to download, which still amazes me to this day.
As expected, the connection speed is not consistent, and sometimes it would be so slow that you’d think it was a bad idea to upgrade. It’s only been a month, and I had already called the PLDT hotline to complain about the connection. I constantly run speed tests to ensure that I am getting the value of what I’m paying for. The connection would sometimes be so fast.
But then again, there are days when you get this.
I made sure to run these tests when I’m the only one connected to the Internet to get a fair result. So you see, even when only one gadget is connected, the speed can be really slow.
So is the upgrade worth it? Overall, I’d say yes because I need a faster Internet speed for my online job. The connection is not consistently stable, but I guess that’s expected from this company. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of rants on Facebook by people complaining about their connection problems. I hope there was a way to keep the speed consistent. After all, the monthly bills don’t change, do they?
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