The Smart Bro Chronicles

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, [...]

Who Breached the Contract?

marquis0503 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:42:15 +0000

I am from makati. I have been a subscriber since May 2007. 1st month was great. I’m getting like fairly fast when i download mp3, videos and games. After that the service completely s#!%k. I get disconnected every hour and speed is like 15-29kbps. The worst I had was 2kbps(wth). I [...]

Smart Broken’s DNS Server dilemma

Dagger — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:21:07 +0000

I guess, as all of us here are current Smart Broken subscribers, you probably know what’s plaguing this poor excuse for an Internet Service Provider since last week from this post’s date; the frequent timeouts of their DNS servers. What I’m perplexed about is this; why is it happening? Do these self-proclaimed technological wizards that handle [...]

Goodbye Smart Wifi/Bro! my Lock-in Period now Expires!

neozoby21 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:52:54 +0000

I was planning to continue my subscription to smart wifi/bro for a second year because its cheaper 788@256kbps despite the fact of a very unimpressive service and support that I have experienced, but my surprised that old wifi subscriber will be mandatorily upgrade to the Bro plan because they have repackage as Smart Bro [...]

Question on Billing

vhortex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:01:41 +0000

I have paid last month with P233 pesos on smart wireless center as per what is written on my bill.. Early September, I receive a bill for P999 plus my P233 outstanding pay which I have already paid. What puzzle me is that the billing period is for August 11 - September 10.. How come the bill [...]

“Up To …” Are We Getting The Speed As Advertised?

othello — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:39:52 +0000

Hey guys, just to let you know BBC News today (19 December, 2007) has published the calling that a watchpanel in the UK called Ofcom Consumer Panel had asked the Broadband Carrier in the UK to do something about the “Up to…” thingy that they promise their consumer. You know what the U.K. people are [...]