shucks gusto ko pa naman magpa-connect…hindi na lang siguro… time for DSL to shine! haha! Globe broadband kaya ok? :)

I seriously hope that with all the ‘downtime’ that your internet connection is having, that they aren’t making you pay for that said down time. I’d be bitching that they take off a week’s worth off the bill. lol

true to that.. smart’s internet service sucks -.- na experience ko din yan madalas tapos pag tumawag ka eh paulit ulit lang sinasabi nila or “mam may technical activities po kasi” sheshh walang katapusan technical activities, saka ang bagal dumating ng bills nila sobra…

hehe mag globe lines broadband ka na lang :P 999 lang at 512 kbps pa hehe, ganyan talaga ang wireless hehe

TO all smartbro user visit http://smartbro.blogspot.com to increase your bandwidth. thanks!

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Dear! I’m getting smartbro sa MAndaluyong. I do hope na —all you’ve said that’s bad about the service will NEVER happen to me. After all I wish it will be a better service than my every 5 minutes disconnected GlobeDSL! :)

simply amazing isn’t it? how they take their clients for granted.. I just recently had my subscription cut (actually it was just last night). reason why? simply coz they suck. I reported a slow and non-existent connection aug 3 (average speed was less than a 100kbps). guess what the excuse was? naturally the “base-station-upgrade/base-station-techprob” excuse. so i continually called their hotline (in every occasion losing at least 15mins of my precious life because no one was answering) to report and do followups. and then aug 9, I talked to “jack” and said that I was scheduled for a field visit on aug 11 to check my canopy settings because the problem maybe there. WHAT?? so why then were they saying before that the problem was in their base-station. They were practically lying to me. unfortunately for the agent, i wasn’t stupid to fall for their crap and received the hell out of me. Guess what, Aug 11 passed without a shadow of their contractors in my place. Had it cut Saturday night after waiting the whole day for a no-show contractor. I told the rep at their wireless center don’t they dare demand from me the remaining months off my contract (still just 6months with smartbro so i’m still within the lock-in period). If they want to sue me, feel free, they’ll be facing a losing battle.

Whoever is planning to go SMARTBROKEN, don’t! ridiculous service!

Bad mouth smartbro? why no bad mouth smart telco! THEY SUCK BIG TIME!
Facts about smartbro:
1. Bandwidth promised is a just a teaser.
2. 80% downtime
3. 1 year undisclosed contract.
4. No rebates given for downtime. (as 4 me 3 months downtime no rebates given.)
5. Beware if you don’t pay your monthly bill on time a ridiculously high interest rate will be slapped in your face.
6. No amount of explanations, emails, begging, shouting will help you get a better service with smart.
7. You will always lose money if you go for smart. You may even get a heart attack.
8. It’s the no. 1 swindling company here in the philippines.

The bad news is that there will never be a solution to the Smartbro problem, and here’s why:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2170719,00.asp

There are tens of thousand of hits in a google search for this smartbro problem. Smart is ripping of many people and this is a problem of national importance. Consider the amount of money that smart is stealing. Stealing from hard working folks, folks that rely on their internet connection for their school, work, business, and communication around the globe.

It looks like smart will continue the ripoff by appearing to be concerned and providing dubious support and building false hopes of problem resolution. The problem will continue because it’s unsolveable.

Smart may be just keeping the cash flowing in for now, and plan to roll out WiMax sometime in the future when they can no longer deceive subscribers.

don’t fall for globe yet..

http://www.pinoywifi.com/index.php?topic=964.0

wala ba matinong ISP dito sa pinas?????

I’d rather avail of a DSL account rather than a broadband connection. The Philippine broadband service is not as smooth as they claim on the advertisements because it is still immature service-wise. Kailan lang ito sinimulan sa Pinas kaya marami pang gusot, ‘di tulad ng DSL na stable na.

Oo nga pala, SmartBRO rin ako. And guess what? I cannot access google, blackle, YM, chikka, Gaia Online, etc. Goddammit. I already brought this to the CS’s attention but to no avail. They refuse to welcome the thought that it is their system that is at fault and not my PC.

I’ve had a bad experience with Smart Bro as well and blogged about it on Smart Bro Downtime A Downer.

My brother also had a bad experience with Smart Bro. Hassle lang talaga service nila.

mga bros, mga sis.

there is no problem with SMARTBRO connection, ang problema sa kanila is yung mga nagkakabit ng kanilang ANTHENA ( lagi walang signal ). I also experiece the same problem you tackled post here (like one week akong walang signal, kung meron man on and off, tapos hirap pa sa pag connect), pero when i got a chance to fix my ANTHENA to get a good signal ayun nawala.

Mga trainee lng kz ang mga nagkakabit ng ATHENA nila at nagsesetup, most of the time yung ISA marunong yung isa hinde, kaya minsan nde magkatugma yung dalawa sa pagkakabit nung ATHENA nila at and the same time sa pagcheck kung may signal na narerecieve ang ANTHENA.

When they installed my ANTHENA d2 sa bahay eh wala ako, so they just installed it infront of my brother after that its ok na, basta may internet pages na lumalabas and the connection is ok, then they go na. Nataga pa nga kami ng 1Thou dahil sa tubong ikinabit sa ANTHENA, they used 3pipes para dun sa ANTHENA.

So nung ginagamit ko after a month, aba wala akong RECEIVE data, puro SEND data ang operation ng LANCard ko, so mean walang pumapasok sa signal ko, when I called up SMARTBRO CS, they said ok naman daw yun ANTHENA ko so nothing to worry baka lang daw maraming nakaONLINE that tym (pero after a week pa yun grabe, on and off, nde ka makadownload ng MP3 at FLV files sa Youtube ) then i decide to up our roof to position the ANTHENA to gain signal.

From then, ok na sya no HASSELS. sarap.

try nyo galawin signal nyo where it can receive more signal.

o-o
Ato Macapagal

another issue sa GLOBE, ADSL (asymmetric) sila not like SmartBro SDSL(Symmetric).

— quote from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-adsl.htm —
The “asymmetric” in ADSL refers to the fact that the downstream data rate, or the data coming to your computer from the Internet, is traveling faster than upstream data, or the data traveling from your computer to the Internet. Upstream data rates are slower because Web page requests are fairly miniscule data strings that do not require much bandwidth to handle efficiently.

Some businesses, however, may require matching upstream rates for uploading large files. SDSL, or Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line is an option. “Symmetric” indicates that both datastreams are operating at the same speed of 1.5 to 7 Mbps, depending on the grade purchased.

SDSL service requires a dedicated telephone line because, unlike ADSL, telephone and fax services cannot share a line with SDSL service.

— end quote –

o-o
ato

oi makapagal……. ehehehe……… IT ka ba?? tagal ko nang napagaralan yan ahhhhh hahaha…

peace