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My Data Plan Is Ending, Hoping To Upgrade

Plan 1699 Ultera is a wireless plan with data capping. Right off I knew it wasn't going to be the speed that's annoying, it is the daily data cap at 2 GB. The promised speed is 10Mbps but the fastest I got out it is 1.2Mbps. This is the practical speed of downloads. If you measure it using one of web measuring tools, you could go up to 3Mbps. Every time I call customer support about it, they would point out that my account has reached its data cap and they had to reduce download speeds to 50% sometimes more. I am locked in for 36 months. Yup, it's pretty annoying. But this contract is ending on March 7, 2018 and I'm on the market for a NO CAPS plan.

After looking at several ISP's available in my area, I settled on PLDT's Fibr plan 2899. I like it for the no capping feature. No installation fee. No buying their modem, (which means they own it, they repair it, they replace it). The plan has a promised speed of 100Mbps for the first 6 months and then 50Mbps on the 7th month onwards. I don't know if this is a technical limitation or a marketing strategy. I guess they want small businesses / big users to break into the market then add another plan on their account. They're betting on multiple plans on a single account.

This plan has a landline / voice service. They are offering Plan 2899 with CIGNAL but I didn't get it. Just the data and the voice. They sent me a subscriber certificate to sign. Looks like the Fibr facility isn't available to me. I got an SMS putting everything on hold. My cousin who lives in Ampid, San Mateo got the same message but later on got it installed in their village. So here's waiting for some good news then.

Meanwhile I want to put a summary of my internet activity here.
$ vnstat -m

 enp3s0  /  monthly

       month        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
    ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
      Feb '17     65.28 GiB |   24.94 GiB |   90.21 GiB |  320.33 kbit/s
      Mar '17    125.61 GiB |   27.09 GiB |  152.70 GiB |  489.71 kbit/s
      Apr '17     98.89 GiB |   22.63 GiB |  121.52 GiB |  402.73 kbit/s
      May '17     84.54 GiB |   21.83 GiB |  106.37 GiB |  341.13 kbit/s
      Jun '17     78.81 GiB |   11.81 GiB |   90.62 GiB |  300.31 kbit/s
      Jul '17     90.74 GiB |   20.27 GiB |  111.01 GiB |  356.03 kbit/s
      Aug '17     55.76 GiB |    7.27 GiB |   63.03 GiB |  202.14 kbit/s
      Sep '17     78.60 GiB |    8.33 GiB |   86.93 GiB |  288.08 kbit/s
      Oct '17    133.33 GiB |   24.25 GiB |  157.58 GiB |  515.55 kbit/s
    ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
    estimated    136.02 GiB |   24.74 GiB |  160.75 GiB |

Since starting this log, which is when I installed Arch Linux, I reached the highest traffic this month of October 2017. It's only appropriate to remind one's self how much hours and megabytes he has tallied sitting in front of his computer.



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