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Globelines Broadband cheaper rates
In: Internet and Web
4 Feb 2010
Business sure know how to sucker punch you. I just noticed that Globelines is offering much cheaper rates for new broadband subscribers. My Php 1995 2 Mbps plan and landline is now only Php 1295.
Thinking it’s unfair, I called [...]
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- Tags: Broadband, Globe, Globelines, Internet
Globelines using new IP ranges?
In: Internet and Web
14 Jan 2010Just a quickie. I just noticed that I get 180 prefix when I connect recently. Maybe starting around a week ago. I used to get the dreaded 203 or 222 prefix which meant that I’m on their oftentimes shared public IP.
I used to have such bad luck with Globe’s shared public IP addresses. That meant [...]
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- Tags: DSL, Globelines, Internet, IP
Globelines P2P back in business?
18 May 2009As of 6:35-ish this evening, people have started to report that P2P speeds are now spiking to more decent speeds.
I’m still getting sub-par speed and is quite erratic but something definitely has changed since it’s now breaching the 44-46 kB/s speeds of the past three days. I still can’t say that everything’s back to [...]
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- Tags: Bandwidth, Globelines, Peer-to-Peer, Throttling
What is the business case for Globelines P2P throttling?
In: Business| Technology
17 May 2009Globelines Broadband subscribers are really pissed off. Many of them are threatening to jump ship and not at all threatened by the lock-in clause. If only class action lawsuits aren’t that foreign in this country, I’m pretty sure that Innove/Globelines would be facing one right now.
Rumor has it that Globelines will be making a [...]
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- Tags: Broadband, Cap, Globelines, Internet, P2P, Peer-to-Peer, Throttling
I’m a sucker for reading fineprints and Kyam already warned me of this before I applied so I know of their Peer-to-Peer bandwidth cap which states:
Peer-to-Peer download speed is restricted to a maximum of 20% of the subscribed maximum speed regardless of type of plan. Should the subscriber use the Service beyond the allowable parameters [...]
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- Tags: Broadband, DSL, Globelines, Internet, Peer-to-Peer
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