ISP in Davao City

When we talk about the BEST ISP here in Davao City, each of us has it's own opinion. Some say Bayantel or PLDT MyDSL are the best. Some might disagree and say they are wrong and SmartBro or Globelines are better.

I've been loyal to Sky Cable's Zpdee as my ISP for two years and it was my first connection to replace the ever painful dial up. Geez... I remembered the days of how annoying dial up was. A 10 mb file to be downloaded for 1 hour? Don't imagine. Luckily, these ISP became affordable with great speeds to offer.

The question now is how stable and reliable they can be?

I only tried 2 ISP in Davao so I'll give a short feedback.

Sky Cable's Zpdee - Sky Cable(not Sun Cable) is mandatory if you want to avail their connection. Their 512 kbps is 900 php + 650 php for Sky Cable. That's quite expensive BUT their connection is REALLY stable. Almost 0% interuption and you get what you paid for.

PROS: stable, no disconnection(unless some theft stole their cable wires), good download, good surfing
CONS: expensive, bad for uploading, for 900 - 1000 php, 512 kbps is not enough since some ISP offers up to 1 mbps, 1 PC only(I'm serious, you can't use this to other PC/laptops)

Globelines - This was my second ISP, most of my friends warned me about this ISP but 512 kbps is not enough for me and Zpdee is way too expensive. My mom never watch cable channels and I never watch TV so yes Sky Cable was useless for us! Freshly installed 2 weeks ago, it was fast. 995 php for up to 1 mbps, it was a good offer. Problem is, once it disconnects it really mean it! You'll have no internet for day/s which is annoying as hell!

PROS: 995 php for up to 1 mbps it was a good offer unlike the 512 kbps, fast download, quick response from customer service
CONS: not so fast on surfing(Tip: Use OpenDNS for improvement), unstable!

In my opinion, ISP here in Davao really varries upon your location. Some find this ISP good, others don't. Just a small tip, if you are satisfied with your ISP stick with it!

If you want to share your ISP experiences from SmartBro, PLDT MyDSL, Bayantel or other services please let others know and comment.

Goodbye May

Summer is officially over here in the Philippines. I'm sure most of you enjoyed it. Now here comes the month of June, students are back to school and well... workers still work.

But before I say goodbye to the month of May and move on, I have to say this year's summer was one of the toughest summer I ever had. It was one hell of a ride, a twist of fate. Well, I don't really want to elaborate the problem I was facing that time.

As June started, I am aiming for a new and much better start in my life. Now I am sure and willing to finally MOVE ON and never dwell on the past. There is no guarantee that I won't feel the same situation again or get hurt. The fact is nothing's certain in life. We will always be facing challenge in this world. What matters most is once you are down, get up and learn from it.

Goodbye May... Hello to a new and much better life.

Liquors Pleasure

Last night me and my ever loyal High School bestfriends went out to bond at Pescados(Torres Compound). Well we were not there to drink milk so we ordered pitchers of cocktail drinks. Due to fun and excitement, we emptied 5 pitchers and ordered 2 buckets of beers as the finale. I think those were too much for 5 persons that's why we all end up too drunk. Two of my friends slipped away with good "alibis" while I was asleep on the table for about an hour. I'm just thankful to my own feet that they took me home.

Damn liquors. I hate the aftermath but I don't know why I still drink. Well I just drink occasionally and I don't think it is that bad. Just don't drink beyond your limit like what I did.

Unexpected Changes

Lately I've been inactive on updating my blog site. iHenshin.com has been my primary blog site for a few months now which were all mix up with news, movie reviews, random thoughts and many more. I also created my niche site atx-case.com but haven't worked on it yet. Call me lazy, but I'll consider it as a challenge to my part.

Lately I've been thinking on how to get 'active' once again on updating these sites that I have.

Suddenly I decided to make iHenshin.com a plain movie site since it is one of my past time hobby. I would definitely enjoy blogging about the latest news and reviews about films so this would now become a niche.

Am I gonna stop blogging about Random Thoughts? That's a NO!

Another decision I made was to create my personal blogs not on other domain or subdomain but here on Blogger.com. Yes I'm new here, I've been using Wordpress so I guess it's time to use Blogger for a change. Setting up my blog site was easily done BUT one problem I noticed was NO CATEGORIES for each post.:( I read some work around solution but for now I'm so focused with that.

Hopefully I can entertain you readers and update this blog daily as possible. This could also be my only diary. Happy reading!