37.4Kbps

That’s what is displayed on my screen after connecting to the Internet.

It’s been a week after our phone went dead. My parents and my in-laws have been badgering the service people at PLDT to go to our place and fix the problem. Thank heavens, at last they went to our house yesterday. That’s PLDT’s excellent customer service (bleh!).

We could make voice calls now.

Unfortunately there is a faint hissing sound while we’re using the phone. That might be a symptom to yet another problem with our phone line.

This manifested on my modem connection. Apparently the line isn’t ‘clear’ yet.

As to how many days this can be fixed, I don’t know.

All I know is that aside from the fact that it took PLDT a week before deciding to go to our house and fix our phone line, my father has been burning their own phone line following up on PLDT to install a DSL on their place.

Service comes as slow as molasses, yet the bill collection goes as fast as Schumi on his F1 race car.