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I was having the car fixed this morning sa casa which is right in front of SM Lipa. I tried to get in early, but I still had to wait a few hours because a lot of car owners got there first. While waiting for my turn, I decided to head on over to SM with my old laptop, and thought about surfing the net and test their free Wi-Fi.
The official launch of SM City Lipa’s free Wi-Fi is slated this Saturday, September 19, along with the Bloggers EB and Blogging Contest where you can win P5000. Although not launched yet, the wi-fi network has been installed for a few weeks now, and the SM people have been testing coverage and speeds leading to Saturday’s event. I decided to test the speed myself, and if you are used to a home broadband connection, then the results that I got might blow your mind, so better wear a helmet or a cap or something.
My test result using speedtest.net returned a 3.45 Mbps Download and 2.44 Mbps Upload speeds for SM Lipa’s connection. That’s about 10x faster than my connection at home, and 5x faster than our office connection. With that speed, you can download an mp3 file in under 15 seconds. I think they blocked torrent ports though, because I’m only getting 10-30kbps for a sample video file. But for web-browsing, blogging, facebooking and IMing, these download and upload speeds are storms, when all you needed was a bucket of water.
The only question that runs through my mind right now is : will this free Wi-Fi service be reliable? In a few weeks time a lot of people with laptops and wi-fi enabled phones will probably go to SM just to surf for free, and as with all networks, congestion will be a big issue.
Will confirm this perceived problem with SM when I get the chance. Will also update you with other tests in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, you might want to add us up on Facebook.
I tried the WiFi at SM Batangas and it was pretty impressive too. I wasn’t able to check it thoroughly as I was in a hurry and I was just using my iPod then. But again, it was pretty good. Better than Robinson’s Lipa I think.
I tried the WiFi at SM Batangas and it was pretty impressive too. I wasn’t able to check it thoroughly as I was in a hurry and I was just using my iPod then. But again, it was pretty good. Better than Robinson’s Lipa I think.