Another thing is that their technical support is so bulok/crappy. Why? Because their trunk line is not working anymore. They switched to one phone per tech support agent. You have to memorize lots of phone numbers and dial them one at a time, you’re lucky if you get on the line on just one dial. Isn’t that so bulok? If i didn’t call them I wouldn’t know that there is a problem with the lines our area.

For me, MyDestiny should give proper notice to their subscribers when something happened with their servers or whatever they call it. Well, we’ve been a subscriber for more than two years already and nothing has changed. No improvements but full of crappy service.

By the way, I’d like to congratulate the Bob Reyes of TurfSite Manila and Tonyo Cruz for winning Jepoy’s PLDT Landline Prepaid Plus Sim Giveaway Contest.

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Anyway, I’ll try to activate it first and after that I’ll write a review about it.

I haven’t tried smart’s services yet but I do think that it is the real deal. I mean, if you are looking for an alternative say like you’re in a province or on the go, Smart is there and I’ve heard that it’s nice. Added that it’s internet service is relatively cheap(10pesos every 30 minutes).

Maybe some of you might be wondering why the hell Am i desperately in need of internet connection. Well, we are moving to dasmarinas cavite really soon. And I think the subdivision were we live is not supported by any ISPs so my alternative is using my phone and prepaid sim as my modem to connect through the intarwebs.

Anyhoo, do you guys know if there are any ISPs providing services in our Area, it’s in greenwoods subdivision dasmarinas cavite.

Thanks and Goodluck to me.

Last week, there was an internet outage in Middle East and south asian countries due to a damaged cables lying under the seabed. It happened Wednesday that’s why the casualty, at first, has not noticed by home users. But businesses and call centers are much affected because of they rely on this technology. Until now, they are not sure what caused the damage and when is the internet going to be stable.

Our internet connection here in the building is not quite stable yet. Time to time I got disconnected and wait for hours to re-establish a connection. I tried to download Visual c++ 2008 express edition to test the download speed of our connection and to my surprise I downloaded it fast and encountered only one problem, that’s when I got disconnected.

Internet connectivity has been a part of each of our lives and we feel incomplete when we are not able to check our mails and do our daily tasks with the internet. It’s just frustrating trying to go online these past few days.

Anyways, I’ve already solved the problem. It seems that Simple tags plugins, Asides plugin and other plugins which uses categories would cause this problem. The reason is that newer version of wordpress doesn’t have wp_post2cat table but uses other table name like wp_term.

Everytime you update your wordpress, make sure you check your plugins if it’s compatible with the new version and if it’s not then update your plugins as well.

By the way, this also covers wordpress themes because new version of wordpress uses different template tags.

Go to Tools > Setting Wizard > E-mail > Choose your Country/Region and Operator (Mine is Saudi Arabia, and Mobily KSA Prepaid) > choose your email provider (we’re using gmail) > Outgoing mail Server (choose smtp.gmail.com) > type your complete email address (youremail@gmail.com), then your user name and password > then press Options and select Ok.

Once you’re done, go to Messaging and you should see a Gmail folder below My Folders. Congratulations You have just setup your gmail account in your N73 phone.

This actually applies to other N series nokia phones.

Before retrieving your messages, I suggest you modify your email settings. Go to Gmail folder then click options, choose email settings > Retrieval Settings > Email to Retrieve (choose headers only so only the sender and subject of the email will be retrieved) then press OK.

Retrieving your messages. Messaging > Gmail > Options > Connect. It will update your gmail inbox with the headers of the new messages. Remember that we choose headers only in retrieval settings so you have to mark every headers of the message that you want to retrieve. By choosing headers only, we were able to save data downloaded.

Prices vary from Operator. Here, based on my experience, 1mb of data transfered including upload(send) and download(receive) costs around 2 Riyals which is expensive compared to other Operators worldwide which offers per hour basis and sometimes unlimited browsing.

Three months ago, I came back here in Riyadh and was surprised that there are already a lot of broadband users. Yes, I saw them because they are connected through WIFI. But then ISPs rate are expensive excluding the devices. And down speed is slow compared to my connection, myDestiny, in the Philippines. I am not connected directly to the modem because I am using wifi but still I experience slow connectivity and intermittent connection. The access point is in the room above our flat.

I am still trying to convince my father to get us a broadband connection. In that way, I can test whether broadband here in Riyadh is really slow. Anyways, thanks to our neighbors for their wireless connection.

By the way, Another thing that I noticed is that their wireless connections are not secured. And if it’s secured, most of them are using WEP encryption which is more vulnerable to hackers.

The good: Lots of unsecured wireless connection, free wifi, a very kind neighbor.(grins)

The bad: Expensive subscription, down and up speed, lots of blocked sites.

Internet is like my life. I spend most of the time in front of my laptop reading news, blogs, etc and just surfing till i get tired. Anyway, here’s a list of things that I do everytime our internet is down.

1. Play Sudoku
Fuck me if you don’t what sudoku is and how to play it. Yeah! I know, it’s really addictive. I installed it in my nokia n73 phone so that I could play whenever I’m bored or just have nothing to do.

2. Sleep
Yeah! Who doesn’t want sleep? I mean, we really all need it and we have to thank the ISP because we get to sleep coz of that internet connection.

3. Design
No internet. Uh oh. Ok. It’s time to design. Usually my creativity works when I’m alone and I hate it when I’m online because it’s tempting to like open your browser and surf than designing graphics.

4. Go out and chat with friends
Like I’ve said I spend most of my time in front of my laptop so going out is like going offline. When internet is down, go out, chat, play, do the things you love most except surfing the net. Really helps to relieve stress and just a good thing to pass time.

5. Dial up mode.
This happens when you are really desperate to go online. But you got so fucked up because its fucking slow, so you text while waiting for the page to load or do those other things that you do till the page loads.

I did not include calling the ISP because it sucks. You know what I mean huh?

Anyway, those are the things. You might wanna try it. It’s really effective because while you’re doing those you wouldn’t know that time passes by so quickly.

Anyway, this is just an update so good luck to me.

Oh by the way, I haven’t thought of a nice design that would fit 24newmedia.

1. No electricity, no dial tone.

Yes! I don’t know what happened but are PLDT lines and Meralco lines the same? BS! What if there is an emergency or something but we can’t use our phone because there’s no dial tone? the hell is that?!

2. No dial tone every other day or sometimes everyday.

Yes! My friend asked me if our line has been cut off because she couldn’t call us in our landline. I said, that’s impossible because I’ve already paid the bills and that they haven’t issued us a disconnection notice yet. But to my surprise, when i tried calling someone, our phone does not have a dial tone.

3. They’ll call to ask if we already have a bill and to pay immediately.

Haha! this one’s really funny. They would actually call you and remind you to pay your bill. But they would not ask if you are experiencing something wrong about your landline or whatever it is.

4. Complain and ye shall not receive. LOL

When it comes to billing, PLDT will hunt you. They will seek for yer money and remind you to pay your bills. But when you complain and ask for their service or support, they’d hide and It’ll take them years before they know what the problem is.

5. They’ll offer you a new service, and your bill will get higher.

haha, They will activate a service on you account and after that you would not notice your telephone bill will double.

Anyways, maybe it’s just me.

How about you? Do you have complains regarding PLDT?