Pocket Wifi - What are my options

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

It's been 3 years since I have been in Philippines.

 

What are my options for a pocket wifi or mobile hotspot where I can get high speed internet?

 

 

[Hank_ 9,174]

2 hours ago, Chris Duffy said:

It's been 3 years since I have been in Philippines.

 

What are my options for a pocket wifi or mobile hotspot where I can get high speed internet?

 

 

 

I use to carry a Huawei that was G4 LTE, cost about P4,000 .      Most phones have a HOTSPOT setting also.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

3 hours ago, Chris Duffy said:

It's been 3 years since I have been in Philippines.

 

What are my options for a pocket wifi or mobile hotspot where I can get high speed internet?

 

 

I have little experience but did view this VLOG from a fellow who lives in the Philippines and he has a video describing a wifi unit that he swears by. He's been using it for about 5 months now and no throttling down at all so OPEN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEh991-ro4

[Hank_ 9,174]

That is the pocket Hauwei, just have to make sure it is the 4G LTE ..   don't sound like a good deal renting it.   You can get the smart LTE sim for P995 a month that is 800MB/day as he is talking ... that is what I use when there.  

Edited June 24, 2018 by Hank_

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

7 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

I have little experience but did view this VLOG from a fellow who lives in the Philippines and he has a video describing a wifi unit that he swears by. He's been using it for about 5 months now and no throttling down at all so OPEN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEh991-ro4

That is the one I was told about.  It like $42 per month for a monthly special.  But it appears as if it not available anymore in Philippines.  I sent them a email today and will see what the response is

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

3 hours ago, Hank_ said:

That is the pocket Hauwei, just have to make sure it is the 4G LTE ..   don't sound like a good deal renting it.   You can get the smart LTE sim for P995 a month that is 800MB/day as he is talking ... that is what I use when there.  

So do you have to buy load also?

[Greenbaum 12,259]

24 minutes ago, Chris Duffy said:

That is the one I was told about.  It like $42 per month for a monthly special.  But it appears as if it not available anymore in Philippines.  I sent them a email today and will see what the response is

Select "Asia" then next box select "Philippines". Data is unlimited compared to other plans.

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

5 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

Select "Asia" then next box select "Philippines". Data is unlimited compared to other plans.

I have tried a few times today. It says product unavailable for Philippines.

[Hank_ 9,174]

1 hour ago, Chris Duffy said:

So do you have to buy load also?

Yes.   You can put any sim in those.  I would use SMART, they don't have unlimited plans anymore, but still better than Globe,  Globe was too spendy for very limit data.   

 

Strangely I used Globe for my phone/text ... everyone I would call/txt used globe for that, and as you know gotta have to same "brand" ... 

[jm17 7]

For the last 3 yrs, the only thing that changed in the Philippines is price. Everything is expensive now. Sorry for the unrelated answer but dont expect any changes from 3yrs ago. Internet is still slow.

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

13 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

Select "Asia" then next box select "Philippines". Data is unlimited compared to other plans.

I got a email back from them, They no longer offer monthly rental, it's only daily. 

 

Daily is like $150 per month, too expensive,  They did have it for $42 per month. 

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

5 hours ago, jm17 said:

For the last 3 yrs, the only thing that changed in the Philippines is price. Everything is expensive now. Sorry for the unrelated answer but dont expect any changes from 3yrs ago. Internet is still slow.

I was afraid of that, Last time I was there pocket wifi was 999 peso.

 

That is one complaint about the Philippines the internet speed suxs there

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

31 minutes ago, Chris Duffy said:

I was afraid of that, Last time I was there pocket wifi was 999 peso.

 

That is one complaint about the Philippines the internet speed suxs there

It's all 2G in the provinces and 3G in the big cities with no clear and concise plan for expansion to 4G anytime soon.

[John & Rose 7,239]

I use a SkyRoam.  It is hit and miss (mostly hit).  It costs $8 a day for unlimited data and it works in hundreds of countries.  That is good when you have stopovers and dont want to use the airport's free wifi.  It isn't perfect but it has been adequate in my 10 or so visits to the Philippines.

Edited June 25, 2018 by John & Rose

[Hank_ 9,174]

In metro Manila SMART updated their equipment to G5 last summer i was pulling 80 MB downloads, of course once were done in our area they started throttling .. then I was only get 36MB.   It is the data caps that are annoying

Edited June 25, 2018 by Hank_