7 posts tagged “mydestiny”

EARTHQUAKES SHOULD BE OUTLAWED!

That damn earthquake that killed 2 in Taiwan and damaged the underwater cables that link Asian countries to the US should be fined. Dammit. It's been 2 weeks and my connection has been crawling and crawling and crawwwwling! I cannot even open my emails on Gmail and Yahoo! My Blogs, my works... sigh. I was to apply for a PLDT DSL connection but I learned that their connection sucks even more. sigh.

This advisory was sent by myDestiny Cable Internet last January 3:

To Our Most Valued Subscriber,

First of all, we would like to thank you for your
continued interest in our services.

We would also like to advise that our International
Private Link (IPL) Provider has blocked certain sites to
free up some bandwidth.  Here are the blocked sites:

www.friendster.com
www.revver.com
www.movies.com
www.download.com
www.apple.com
www.youtube.com
www.quicktime.com

This is ONLY temporary.  We will advise you as soon as
we possibly can when the said sites are up.

Again, thank you very much and Happy New Year.

Very Truly Yours,

John Luke Q. Chica
Officer-In-Charge
Account Management Group
TEXT HOTLINE: 0917-577-1111

And this just yesterday:

Greetings from MyDestiny Broadband Internet!

Our International Private Line's damaged undersea fiber
optic cables are being repaired continuously. You will
still experience slow / intermittent connection during
the duration of the repair.

We're very grateful for your patience and understanding.
We will advise you as soon as we possibly can, once the
connection normalizes.

Thank you for bearing with us. Rest assured, we are
always at our best in serving your needs.

Very Truly Yours,

Customer Care
MyDestiny Broadband Internet
2/F Solid House Bldg.
2285 Chino Roces Ext.
1231 Makati City, PH
+63(2) 841-9393
+63(917) 577-1111 (text hotline)
helpdesk@mydestiny.net

The news article from Inquirer.net said that this nightmare would last 3-4 weeks. I just hope they fix this soon as I'm already loosing visits and adclicks from Adsense on my other blogs.

Destiny should give their subscribers some rebates! Browsing is slower than dial up and most sites won't even load. *sigh* I envy those Bayantel DSL subscribers. Globe and Destiny's connections are screwed. Dammit. Watta new year. 

After totally losing my internet connection even to local websites for 2 days, myDestiny went back up a few hours ago. There were lucky myDestiny subscribers (new guys) who didn't lose  their connection, lucky bastards. But for old-schoolers like me, it was hell for 2 days. I learned that old subscribers where being re-routed to Globe Telecom's backup lines while the newer ones where on Destiny's backup. EVERYTHING IS SLOW! :~(

Globe also sent this advisory:

Globe/Innove Advisory: You may experience difficulty making outgoing IDD calls, sending international text, roaming in some countries, and accessing internet via your mobile phone. This is related to the damage caused by the Taiwan earthquake last December26 on international cables affecting all telcos. Network restoration is currently ongoing. We assure you that service will be made available the soonest possible time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Weird thing though, my Adsense earnings went up 65% yesterday :))

This is not the typical Destiny Cable I've known for the last 7 years. They seldom send out advisories to their subscribers via email or even their website if there's something wrong with their service.

Date:	Wednesday, December 27 2006 03:48 pm
From:	MyDestiny Advisory
To:	undisclosed_recipients
Subject:	Internet Breakdown

To Our Most Valued Subscriber,

Please be informed that as of 10:00AM today December 27,
2006, different IPL Links experienced multiple submarine
cable breakdowns due to an earthquake in Taiwan which
resulted to temporarily loss of Internet connection.
However we can still access the locally hosted sites.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience, we will for
sure keep you posted for the update as to when the
connection will be restored.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely Yours,

Mydestiny Broadband Internet

But I have to admit. They've really improved from the first day they installed my cable modem. Those were the days when everyone was still in dial-up and broadband access was just limited to handfuls.

A lot of broadband providers are now offering cheaper packages compared to Destiny but I rather stay with Destiny, the ISP that help boost my interests on computers and the internet. And besides, Destiny Cable's the pioneer of broadband access in the Philippines.

Whew! I'm on a VOX blogging spree.. I cannot access my Blogger account, email, and everything else. /heh I'm starting to think that VOX servers are located in the Philippines.

Ok, I take it back. myDestiny doesn't sucks. This explains why I cannot browse some websites.

Taiwan quake damages RP Internet links
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 01:03pm (Mla time) 12/27/2006

THE 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan early Wednesday damaged the Philippines’ links to the Internet, telecommunications executives have said.

BayanTel spokesman John Rojo confirmed this and said he was not sure when normal services would resume.

In a separate interview, Wilson Chua, Internet Service Provider owner, said that there was “massive damage” in the international links.

Chua said his connection to at least four major telecommunications firms -- Globe Telecommunications, BayanTel, Digitel, and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. -- had been down since this morning.

PLDT officials could not be reached for comment as of posting time.

At least three Internet cafes in Manila visited by INQUIRER.net had been closed due to the service interruptions.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the southern Taiwanese town of Hengchun Wednesday, killing two and triggering a regional tsunami alert.

SOURCE

:~(

I cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger for the past 3 hours and now I cannot browse a lot of websites. Destiny sucks.