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.
Just before we left, I was checking the AirborneAccess website if they have any available hotspots in the historical city. Unfotunately, there was none, but I just remembered that Arnold posted his life-saving day by Smart 3G the other day. So I borrowed my cousin’s N6680 to try it out with my laptop. The settings would not work for the N6680 but when I tried my N3230, it worked!
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.
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 was do something for that.
can u be m seX m8 deuts?
mga laos na globe jer-jerin nyo ako
how to open smart gprs user fuck u globe
how to open smart gprs user fuc u globe
aw
ask ko lang papano po mag
open ng GPRS sa smart na nokia 7360?
ask ko lang po f papano mag open ng GPRS sa smart user. hehehe. tnx.
Your are lucky you use smart sim because Globe Sim is a nightmare. They charge per KB and they took a lot of your credits when you surf yahoo.com page. They are suckers!
Do not use GLOBE Sim when connecting to internet.
i tried also to hook up my laptop with my mobile phone n6600, it works, but only the homepage loads fast. try some tweaks with your computer internet settings. i cant write all here but you can search youtube.com about tweaking your pc settings to run faster in either internet explorer or firefox. happy gprs net surfing.
does Smart has GPRS plans?
For SPARK, re #7
You mean with your last statement that even when out of WI-FI range or other Hot Spots you can still connect with your Sierra card??? How can that be….
Frank in Abra without land lines or Hot Spots (no WI-FI), just GPRS
I live in San-Juan Abra and use SMART GPRS with my laptop and SIM adapter (Audiovox card) for two years now, full internet, but very slow. No land lines here!
Anyone can help me how to set up Outlook Express to send e-mail with Smart GPRS? I tried: SMTP.SMART.COM.PH but that won’t work. I have asked SMART support what their GPRS address is for outgoing e-mail but they don’t seem to know…
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if you really want to go mobile internet, then you better try Pldt’s we roam service.
I have been using mine for about a year now and even if the fastest connection i can get is just slightly faster than a 56k dialup connection, it get’s the job done.
Im using a pcmcia Sierra wireless aircard (came with the package) and my MRR is 2T +.
As long as you can get a smart signal (gprs or edge) then you’re good to go.
i’m really curious what’s keeping our telco companies in having a roaming wi-fi of some sort (im not sure if it’s the right term) so that we can be connected all the time.
Based on my experiece, Dusty is right. It’s only in their promotional that they say it’s cumulative, when in fact you get charged everytime you log on to Smart GPRS.
You can get roaming for SMART WiFi/BRO[ken]?
I didn’t know that. Interesting…
@ sylver
That, I’m working on. :D
@ dusty
It’s cummulative, so you can use up the full 30 minutes before being charged Php10.
That’s about the only time where the Smart Pricing Scheme seems to make any sense. Other than that it plainly sucks.
Do you know that when you connect to Smart for let’s say just 5 minutes then log off, you instantly get charged 10 pesos regardless if you stay online for that long or not. And when you log on again 30 minutes later, you get charged another 10 pesos.
boss, i guess you need to ask smart people if they can give you roaming account for smart wifi.