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(May 31, 2003) The Official website for the Philippine Webby Awards will soon be up, and hosted here at Bitstop.

Click here to visit the site.

(May 30, 2003) DSL subscribers in Dagupan have started noticing a widening gap between the bandwidth they are paying for, and what they are actually getting!

While DSL as a technology is great, not all DSL providers follow the transparency of Eastern Telecoms. Check out their published rates here.

CIR stands for Committed Information Rate. This is the guaranteed portion of the bandwidth that they allot to each of their subscribers. So when everyone logs on, the CIR is the lowest bandwidth you will get. If your DSL provider sets a 8kbps CIR for you, then chances are, that is what you will get, despite having a ‘256kbps’.

Do you know your CIR?

(May 29, 2003) Bitstop has successfully signed a licensing agreement with a foreign-based company to create PC-based router systems for both wired and wireless environments. The systems are capable of doing BGP, RIP, and OSPF routing protocols, bandwidth management, VPN using IPSec, PPTP, or L2TP, and a lot more.

(May 27 , 2003) The Wireless Challenge is the first ever, nationwide student programming competition aimed at showcasing the IT skills and capabilities of the Filipino youth in the development of specific applications for wireless devices.

Over P650,000 in cash prize await the best and the brightest IT students and P150,000 for the schools they represent. To join, accomplish the online registration form available at http://www.eitsc.com/youthcontest03.php

(May 26, 2003) Mozcom has honored Bitstop Inc as this years’ Best Point of Presence. The award was received by Mr John Ang.

(May 23, 2003) Bayantel is currently installing the E1 peering link between Bitstop and Comclark (Instanet). Once commissioned, the link will bring subscribers of both networks closer than ever before.

This infrastructure will enable future value added service that both Bitstop and Comclark plans to bring to its subscribers.

(May 23, 2003) Mr and Mrs John Ang, along with Francis V are our participants to the 11th Mozcom Conference held in Evercrest Golf Resort in Batulao, Nasugbu, Batangas (near Tagaytay).

The conference is a bi-annual event that brings together all the Mozcom POPs (point of presence) franchisees in our area.

(May 20, 2003) Mozilla Firebird is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino™, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. More information about Mozilla Firebird is available at the Mozilla Firebird Project Page. Bitstop clients can download the zip file direct from our FTP server.

(May 16, 2003) Bitstop and Basic Internet are in the process of finalizing plans to bring the highly popular Nitro Internet Cards to the Ilocos region.

Plans call for offering full 56k access via 256kbps back haul to Bitstop. Operation is expected to start by June 15, 2003.

(May 9, 2003) Bitstop Inc. is currently testing the 11mbps link between us, University of Luzon, and Lyceum Northwestern University.

These deployments provide the 2 universities with the biggest bandwidth in the country. The link is powered by a Cisco BR350.