Finally, an end to my Bayantel miseries!

Success!!! I finally saw the end of my Bayantel DSL miseries. The Bayantel technician, Dan, just left about five minutes ago… and he didn’t leave without providing a resolution to my DSL woes.

When he called their office to request for a test port or something, he was told that there’s already an instruction to transfer me from Shelf 2 to Shelf 3. I didn’t understand much of their conversation because it was laced in DSL jargon, so when I asked Dan to “translate”, he told me that the cause of my slow DSL speed is the congestion in the shelf where my connection was in. He also said that the new DSL wired customers are already on Digi40 while mine is still in E1… Na-E1 (Naiwan… left behind with the old configuration)?

What’s more, Dan said no amount of reconfiguration, modem resetting, speed tests, ping tests and trace route tests will change my speed because of the shelf congestion and the fact that I was still in E1 (I really didn’t understand what E1 is but I think it’s the archaic DSL connection of Bayantel).

So there… after several email exchanges they finally sent the guy who was able to resolve my problem. 

What I don’t know is for how long this “honeymoon” period will last or  if I’m going to have to ask to be transferred to a new shelf every month.

I’ve had this DSL connection for almost a year with my contract ending on March 26, 2010. Prior to this episode I was already thinking of getting one of those thumb-drive DSL connectors because of the portability it offers. I was actually going through the motions of reading several reviews about Globe Tattoo. Now that my DSL got faster, I guess I’ll really have to give it until March 26.   

I have tried Smart Bro prepaid but ended up giving it to my mother because it did not give me the speed Mo twister said it would give.

Based on my postpaid connection with Sun cellullar which only registers 1 bar (sometimes I don’t even have a signal) inside our house, I will not try Sun Broadband. I couldn’t even hear or understand what my husband is saying when he calls me using his own Sun postpaid line… how much better can I expect Sun broadband to be?

Globe Tattoo… I’d like to try it because I often (it’s not always) get a full 3 signal bars of 3G even in our bedroom. Other than that and the convenience, I don’t think I’m going to get a lot out of it as far as speed and consistency is concerned. Oh, but I like the soft phone feature, too. 

Can someone lend me a Globe Tattoo so I won’t have to spend another P895 on it?