Friday, January 8, 2010

Bayan Wireless Broadband user spotted in the wild!

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Bayan Telecommunications Holdings Corporation a.k.a. BayanTel has already announced before the plans of providing wireless mobile internet within Metro Manila. To date, we haven't heard of any news on when they will be launching the said service to the public.

Well, this week, we saw someone using it! Does this mean that the service will be available soon?

Here was the photo I took when I saw it:
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Apparently, as announced, the Bayan Wireless Broadband utilzes the EV-DO technology. According to evdoinfo.com,

>Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only
>Rides on CDMA signal- 1x data capability
>Up to 10 times the peak data rate of the next best public wireless solution - 800 - 1,000 Kbps (kilobits per second) average download speeds, comparable to DSL speeds
>1xRTT: 50Kbps - 100Kbps Upload and Download (bursts to 144Kbps)
>EVDO Rev 0: 400kbps-1000kbps Download (bursts up to 2.0Mbps), 50kbps-100kbps Upload (bursts to 144Kbps)
>EVDO Rev A: 600Kbps-1,400Kbps Download (bursts to 3.1Mbps), 500Kbps-800Kbps Upload (bursts to 1.8Mbps)
For the rates? A blog post dated April 06,2009 said that it would be P699.00. It was also mentioned there that it would provide around 256kbps. But from the info I got from an insider just today, January 08, 2010, the one I saw was subscribed to the 512kbps. I haven't asked if higher speeds would be also available.

It was really fast! We streamed videos as if we were using a wired broadband connection. For a 512kbps, it seemed like 2mbps! Well, I think that the reason behind it is, the Bayan Wireless Broadband isn't saturated yet.

The Bayan Wireless Broadband speed just annoys me. Why? I am subscribed to a 3mbps Globe Broadband, A wired DSL service by Globe yet, my "modified" Sun Broadband wireless and this 512 Bayan wireless is way faster than what Globe provides.

*Globe Broadband did improve a bit when 2010 entered, still, not fast enough for a 3mbps sub.

Bayan Wireless Broadband profile settings:
Access number: #777
Username:
Password:

3 comments:

  1. how true is this?

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  2. yes its true, im an ojt of a research company and we got a project from our client (bayanbroadband)to conduct a speedtest from all over metro manila. we used 5 different broadbands (sun,smart,globe,bayan256 and bayan512) and im satisfied with the speed of the bayan 516 ^^,

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  3. BAYANTEL WAKE UP MAGSURVEY KAYO SA MGA USERS, MAY MALASAKIT BA ANG MGA COMPLAINT OFFICERS AT SERVICE CREW NYO O MGKA SWELDO LNG. BULOK ANG BAYAN DSL PUTOL PUTOL GRRRR....

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