Sunday, September 25, 2011

Unreliable SmartBro Connection


SmartBro never fails to fail me and it happened again last weekend. Although we have a DSL + landline at home, I bought a prepaid SmartBro plug-it so I could still have an internet connection whenever we go out of town. Because we were scheduled to go to my parents in law’s house last weekend, I loaded Php50.00 to my prepaid SmartBro plug-it for 24-hours unlimited surfing.

I have always been interested with accessories made of polymer clay and for the longest time, I have been meaning to learn the craft. Because I expected to have a relaxing weekend at my in-laws’ house, I thought that it would be an ideal time to learn how to make beautiful accessories out of polymer clay through video tutorials and at same time, search for cutters with safety features such as those utility knives at MartorUSA.com. So since Saturday afternoon I have been trying to download articles and videos on polymer clay tutorials but I was not able to get anything because of the intermittent internet connection. I thought that perhaps it was the rainy weather that caused the terrible internet connection so I decided to give up at around 10:00 in the evening and just try to resume my tutorial downloads early the following day.

I woke up to a sunny weather this morning, so after breakfast I decided to continue the polymer clay tutorial downloads with the hope that the internet connection using my SmartBro plug-it would be much better. Guess what? After 4 hours of trying, I wasn’t able to download any video but I was able to read about 3 articles about the topic though. Good thing I only spent Php50.00 for one day unlimited surfing because I definitely didn’t get the quality of service that I paid for. All I can say is that Smart should really improve the quality of their internet service…

2 comments:

teecup said...

We're using Smart Bro canopy, and indeed, we also lost our connection for about 12 hours sometime last week (or was it last weekend). Things are back to normal now.

We suspect the choppy connection had to do with major repairs. My friends who are located elsewhere also experienced the same thing.

We would still choose Smart Bro over Globelines on any given day :)

Mona said...

I am using sun broadband and thankful kasi connection is fine well different if the weather is not that good. We have also smart connection here and encounter problem when its raining.