Bukid Life is Still Here

Hello!  Sorry for not writing anything for many, many days.  I guess when you're living in the Bukids one must have a lot of patience when it comes to enjoying modern amenities and perks... like internet connection.

We used to be connected with SOTELCO-PLDT DsL.  SOTELCO buys units from PLDT and resells it under their brand.  At first, it was fine!  We could chat and email and download and everything.  Then it became mediocre, creating connection and speed problems.  To the point that whenever it would rain and the wind would blow, we could expect a cut in the connection.  Over the Christmas break, our speed was so slow and the connection so scratchy that I was worried we wouldn't be able to call up family for chats.  (In the end we didn't have to because we were so busy.)  Anyway, since then I must have complained over 50 times, starting with once a week, to three times a week to every day.  Until, the connection was lost altogether.  I was in the middle of uploading a video (The Flying Gecko, previous blog) when all of a sudden everything stopped loading.  I called up the office to be told that the whole barangay's connection was out.  Okay, cool down.  A couple of hours later, internet was back up and wow, it was fast!  Then, promptly at 10pm it disappeared again and did not return even after 3 days.  No matter how much I complained-- I eventually got tired of calling-- the technician whom they were supposed to send never came, even up to the time when I threatened and made true the threat to have my account disconnected.

Last Thursday, I bought a device called PLDT WeRoam, the wireless modem of PLDT DsL.  It operates wherever there is a strong SMART Telecom signal.  That is what I'm using now.  So far so good.  It's a bit slow (must exercise patience) and sometimes chats take forever to send/receive, but it is sure.  I hope and pray that we'll be able to acquire a faster connection in the future, but for now, this is fine.

People, please bear with me.  My blogs will regularize soon.