We head out to Vigan around 2AM this morning. I brought my car, asked my cousins to drive for me so my brother tagged along. I thought that if I had to spend this whole week in some place like Vigan, might as well make the most out of it.
Justo antes de irnos, estaba revisando el sitio web de AirborneAccess para ver si tenían puntos de acceso disponibles en la ciudad histórica. Desafortunadamente, no había ninguno, pero acabo de recordar que Arnold posted his life-saving day by Smart 3G el otro día. Así que le pedí prestado el N6680 de mi primo para probarlo con mi laptop. Los ajustes no funcionaron para el N6680, pero cuando probé con mi N3230, ¡funcionó!
While on the road, I hooked up my laptop to my mobile phone and tested out Smart GPRS. Took me a while to be connected and when I was able to login, the pages load real slow, I couldn't logon to Yahoo Messenger and I can't view cPanel/WHM. Not a big problem but a little inconvenient especially when you want to check on your server that's been cranking up in the past few days.
Anyway, my connection spoeed was just around 40Kbps and the pages are crawling. Even GMail is having a hard time loading.
Still, it's way better than nothing at all. And for Php10 per 30 minutes, it's a bargain.
SMART gprs this days become very slow. whenever you try to connect on the internet via mobile phone, egprs automatically turn on. That means the phone is switched to a higher level gprs just to maintain the data speed given by gprs inspite of a weak carrier signal…but actually what happens is almost 4 times slower than ordinary gprs.. it started from late march until now.hope SMART do something for that.