The Smart Bro Chronicles

Get Support from Smart via Twitter

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:39:24 +0000

If you are on Twitter, you can get fast support from Smart by sending a message to: http://twitter.com/smartcares Just follow them and send your complaints or feedback. From the looks of it, they respond really fast.

Smart offers Off-Peak Mobile Internet Rate at Php20/2hours

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:09:58 +0000

Prepaid subscribers of Smart Communications, Inc. may now take advantage of affordable, off-peak mobile internet (3G) rate of as low as 17 centavos per minute, with the Off-Peak Lite Mobile Internet package. With Off-Peak Lite, Smart Buddy subscribers will receive one free additional hour of mobile surfing, when they use their Smart celphones to go online [...]

SmartBro Share-It now Unlimited

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:25:28 +0000

SmartBro Share It was first introduced last March 2009. It used to be available for Php999 a month with a 90-hour free allocation. Smart has now moved this offer to “unlimited”. Speed : Up to 2 Mbps No. of Hours use : *UNLIMITED good for up to 5 PCs Connection : Wireless Connection (Via Wifi Router) Requirements : Subscriber [...]

SmartBro Plan 999 upgraded to 512Kbps

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:58:50 +0000

SmartBro Plan 999 just got bumped up and is now upgraded from 384Kbps to 512Kbps. Speed : Up to 512 kbps (New and improved speed) No. of Hours use : UNLIMITED Connection : Fixed wireless connection (FREE Installation Fee) Requirements : Subscriber Application Form, Proof of Identification. Total Initial Payment : Php 999.00 Lock-in Period : 12 months

SmartBro Plan 1500 Unlimited

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:51:38 +0000

Smart is finally re-offering their unlimited 3G for a monthly subscription of Php1,500. This was introduced last year but was put on hold for unknown reasons. Speed : Up to 2 Mbps No. of Hours use : Unlimited Service Connection : Wireless Connection (Via USB Modem) Requirements : Subscriber Application Form, Proof of Address, Proof of Identification, Financial Documents [...]

SMART offers mobile broadband services on HSPA network

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:35:54 +0000

SMART recently expanded its mobile broadband portfolio and launched two more products designed to run on SMART’s nationwide HSPA network. HSPA, or High-Speed Packet Access, is the next step in the evolution of the GSM technology, after GPRS, EDGE, and 3G. HSPA offers download speeds of up to 5.8 Mbps – or a full-length, [...]

SMART launches BRO-powered ‘Share It’ wireless router

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:27 +0000

Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART), through its subsidiary Smart Broadband, Inc. (SBI), today launched SMART Bro Share It, the country’s first broadband device built to enable multiple computers in a common area, such as a house, to have affordable and simultaneous but wireless, high-speed Internet access. “Desktop computers and laptops have become [...]

Smart Bro upgrades to 2Mbps

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:08:39 +0000

According to recent promo materials by Smart, their wireless broadband service has now upgraded its network to handle speeds up to 2Mbps. Before, Smart Bro only advertises up to 384Kbps so the new 2Mbps promise is a huge jump. Let us know if you have experience any increase in speeds on your Smart Bro accounts. More details [...]

Can’t transfer connection to other PC

bahtul — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:37:51 +0000

Hi, I am currently having problems with transferring my connection to my other PC. I can’t get authenticated correctly by the smartbro-lok portal *sigh* Details of what happened: - transfer lan to other pc - wait for IP to be retrieved - try initial browsing (i.e. www.google.com) - diverted to smartbro-lok portal - logged in - account authentication… (which doesn’t work correctly for [...]

VPN access not accessible to Residential Subscribers

pen_pusher — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:09:55 +0000

Are there any work-around on this problem? I’ve tried to reconfigure our VPN server to lowest encryption level, and still it didn’t work. I’m only using PPTP VPN. And I think the router they are using is not properly configured to route vpn packets or is not capable of routing vpn packets, [...]