Faster and Cheaper Internet

Faster and Cheaper Internet
Mahal ang internet sa PHL
Showing posts with label Ookla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ookla. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Is this finding of white listing of internet connection during testing similar to the emission test defeat scandal of VW?

Faster and cheaper internet access for progress

Philippines, October 17, 2015

There was this video at You Tube which investigated the internet speed connected to the speed test, and the speed being being monitored when not connected to the testing site. (There was another measurement site - MLabs which monitored the ping and the speed) The testing site reading gave a higher reading which was the advertised speed, but the actual usage showed a much slower speed.  The investigator/author of the video theorized that the telco was white listing the connection when being tested.  When the test site is the connection, the internet gives a correct speed, but when another URL is the site, the internet speed is the slower actual speed.

But what is new? Carriers/telcos are ignoring Speed test results. What, are helpless against telco
giants?

Exempting Ookla speed test by T Mobile We must have FCC or NTC doing independent test sites on line?

Data caps by T Mobile


 Is this not   similar to the VW scam/scandal discovered for emission testing, by an independent group of investigator. Because of this, VW is facing sanctions and the CEO of VW had to resign,  The VW stocks took a dive.  As a result, VW is also investigated for wrong doing in Europe.  How can this happen to a venerable brand like VW with over $400 billion of car sales annually?

  Mr John German who discovered the VW cars emission scandal of ICCT International Council of Clean Transportation (what a paradox, a man named German discovering a German origin scandal. The cars tested initially passed the emission tests.  He found as in this case that the test of German cars in actual usage,  were 20x the limit.  They did more test, and their hypothesis is that  there must have been an emission test defeat software, or language in the computer box or emission hardware. software.


Monday, August 31, 2015

Top Cities in the Philippines with Fastest Internet Speed.




Our internet is one of the slowest in the world, if not in Asia.  We are 21st, of the 22 countries compared ahead of Afghanistan.  (But that country is war torn -  we are not.  Well if you consider the warring politicians and religious groups)  Our internet is one of the slowest, and one of the expensive.


From Rappler - Phil is 155th of the 190 countries surveyed on internet speed
We must campaign to make this fast by appealing to NTC to our legislators, and to top honchos of telcos.  Are we together here?

What are the cities with top internet speed (Manila is not one of them)

From Yugatech - cities with fastest internet speed



The city that tops the list as of May 2015 is Pasay City with an average download speed of 11.03 megabits per second (Mbps) followed by Pampang

and Marilao at 8.75 and 8.48Mbps, respectively. The fourth spot is taken by Muntinlupa City at 7.16Mbps. From there, the rest follows at 5Mbps and below.
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