Last year, I speculated on getting a broadband connection. Now, after years of subsisting on dial-up and chewing on months of free Wi-Fi, I’m finally munching on high-speed Internet, baby! In a stroke of good timing, Globelines/Innove have recently began servicing my area and they have been aggressively promoting their broadband services around the time we got back to Las Piñas. While PLDT already provides MyDSL services in our village, we hear more horror stories about PLDT and their customer service (e.g., Rico and this hapless call center conversation) that signing up for Globe was an easy decision. My friend, who lives in the adjacent subdivision, has vouched for Globe as well. Not even Max’s gripes with Globe dissuaded me (and being the winner of this year’s Philippine Blog Awards Best Technology Blog, Max’s opinion must count for something).

So last weekend, Globe set up a booth at our village’s clubhouse and we signed up for an account last Sunday. I was surprised to learn that Globe installed our line a mere two days later, just the other day. (I was wondering if our family name, and the fact that my dad is a director at our homeowners association had anything to do with that. ) Anyway, we got the 1 Mbps package (PhP1,495/mo) which includes a Wi-Fi DSL router.

Below is the SpeedTest.Net result:

Anyway, we’ll see how Globelines works out and whether I can manage to contain myself from gorging on all the YouTube videos.