A new poster ad from Smart Bro promotes their broadband speed to be up to 2Mbps. The operative word is “up to” but that’s still a huge jump from the previous 384Kbps.
Could this be the one that I predicted earlier? Of course, even running on HSDPA, this is still the max speed and not a sustained speed.
I fired up several internet bandwidth meters, hooked up my Smart Bro Prepaid account and positioned my laptop to get an HSDPA signal. This is the result I got after several rounds of testing:
The results, 827/350 Kbps, is nowhere near the 2Mbps claimed but that’s still more than twice the usual 300+ Kbps I usually get with them.
Please note though that this claim is a maximum achievable speed (on HSDPA) so if you are located in areas with only EDGE/GPRS, you won’t see any improvements.
Disclosure: Smart Comm. is an advertiser on this blog.
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Yes. I just notice that I had a slow connection after they installed the unit in my PC.
slowwwwwwwwww ng smartbro
@ Noelskii on Oct 11th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
wow! bilis niyan ah! do you work for smart?
turuan mo naman the rest of us how to get those speeds.. im also on smartbro prepaid and it takes me forever to even connect to speedtest.net. the only signal outside of iloilo city for smartbro is gprs which is capable of 14.4Kbps speeds and i am way slower than that. it peaks at 5 Kbps max.
if i had a landline, old simple dialup would run at the same speeds. i think they deserve their name: SMARTBROKEN!
@ newbie on Oct 18th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Guys tulong naman pls…
I’m a SMART BRO plan 999 subscriber currently using my Desktop PC for internet browsing and I just want to ask if I can safely use my TOSHIBA notebook L35. It is stated in my manual that.
Connect the built-in modem only to ordinary analog phone lines.
Never connect the built-in modem to a digital line ISDN
Never connect the built-in modem to a digital connector on a public telephone or to digital private branch exchange PBX
Never connect the built-in modem to a key telephone system for residences or offices
Connection to any communications line other than an analog phone line could cause a PC system failure.
Do I have to buy an external modem for this even tough I have a built-in modem?
I hope you could help me out in this matter pls.
malakas kasi sa kuryente ung desktop PC compare sa laptop
Ive tried to email smart customer service but they didnt reply back.
I’m on plan 999P for 3 years already and i have noticed a BIG change in my speed since Nov.17.2008, I’m somewhere near 3Mbps!!
here is my speed test for Nov.19 & 20
http://www.speedtest.net/result/358471831.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/358955190.png
@Alex:
how’s the torrent download speed?
Globe and Smart Broadbands really. kung ako sa inyo at pc ang gamit nyo, mag dsl na lamang kau. safety na lang ang kailangan isipin.
Ang bagal ng smart bro prepaid. Naka 3g pero 30 seconds bago maload ang google.com, 2 min anf speedtest at syempre 5 oras bago matapos and isang 5-min na video sa youporn at redtube
Smartbro in the plan 999(postpaid) dosnt have the real speed of 2mbps! pero ung modem na smart bro talagang sobrang bilis.. icompare mo ang bilis ng smart brong postpaid sa prepaid(3G):
Post paid 50 kbps lang ang DL speed
Pre Paid 200+ ang DL speed.. halos 4 times na mas mabilis kaya lang indi unlimited
bumilis ang smartbro canopy ko, umaabot na sya ng 700 kbps!
sa mga may balak mag apply ng smartbro, b sure na yong may antenna na ikakabit sa bubong nyo at i sure lang sa technician kung natatanaw ang nila ang tower ng smart, kc kung wala sayang lang pera nyo. na try ko kc at ng mga friend ko yong mga product nila na direct sa usb waste of time ang money lang. kung obstructed naman ang antena mahina rin dapat pa extend pa ng tubo kung may pang additional payment ka go na! ksa naman mag suffer ka sa intermittent connection
Hi I bought the 995 kit Smart Bro Prepaid, I got the white huawei modem. Why is is that I was not able to get a good connection here in Manila…Does the performance of the connection depends on the modem you get? I tried my cousin’s, who has the black one and I got better connection than what I have now.
Does it mean they’re trying to sell their low performance white huawei modems, that’s why they lowered it to 995?
i will terminate my subscription w/ smartbro. i can only get .81Mbps in early morning. but on peak hrs its only .35Mbps the problem is the up load drops to .04Mbps if you upload a 10min 50Mb video it will take about 3hrs.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/607046155.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/607046155.png
gamit ko smart bro prepaid
@jon where are u in cdo? in a week’s time my highest DL was 320kbps. tonite its 200+kbps!
am near malasag btw. any particular settings u did? naka demo kasi c noel (from smart) with 700kbps. i’d greatly appreciate ur help. thanks
how bout u yuga? where exactly in cdo did u got ur results above?
pwede ba namin palitan un smartbro postpaid plug in namin dun sa smartbro broadband with antenna…kasi “PANGET TALAGA” ang service ninyo sa amin ngaun…ano b ang priority nyo customer service o customer sales?
gumamit kyo ng free proxy, free ung net nyo kasingbilis lang dn ng my bayad.. jeje igoogle nyo kung panu..
mabagal un plan 999 sana mag improve tlaga ,un 1mbps na sinabi nyo 200kbps lang
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