I hate smart bro
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You know what? I was angry every time I lost my connection in this F*cking smart bro! And here is my story I hope everyone who are planning to subscribe for a smart bro connection as his or her internet be aware of this.
Last week, I think it is Thursday or Friday. My sister, waked me up early in the morning saying that the there was no internet connection as she browsing the net, my sister already did the troubleshooting like repairing the network connection and other stuff, it still not working. And I answered her, “They might again fixing some eke k chu chu there, so do the browsing later”. Then after two hours, yeah! That is right I was still sleeping, my sister, waked me up, then telling me again, there is still no connection, and then I was bit alarming! Because of that, I still go back to sleep… heheheh… then at 11:00 am I am awake and turn on the PC, and when I log in to my YM try again message box pop up. And that means I have no connection. I do the troubleshooting that I know in the network connection, but still nothing happen! Then, the last option is to call *1888, then I pressed four then they connect me to the one of the agent to help me. I give him my reference number and others then I told him my condition. He instructed me to do the troubleshooting like typing command in CMD or command prompt like ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew and doing the plug and unplug the of the adaptor but then there is only one IP address I got. And unfortunately, I am still not connected!
Then after those stupid troubleshooting that it is obvious that it is not the solution, he said to me that it was my OS was in error! What! I said! Then he said I must reformat or consult to a computer technician about it! Then I said Okay, and thinking is he right? My OS? Why is that? My computer has no virus, it was purely installed by an Updated Anti-spyware, and he said that! Well, I don’t follow it, why? Because I don’t feel it was the right thing to do. I check the number of packets send and received, but then the number of packets received is still zero. And I feel hopeless; I reinstall again the LAN card driver but nothing happen!
After watching some of the movies that I downloaded which I wasn’t able to watch, my connection is still zero. I feel frustrated, I have a lot of blog post to do, and this state is a waste of time! I called to the hotline again; I restated my condition and applying again their style of trouble shooting. Stupid isn’t it? They called themselves technician concern representative and there giving me a ONE stupid idea of troubleshooting repeatedly. Then she finally said that she would contact a technician in our area to check the antenna and other stuff, and wait for maximum of 48 hours. Okay, I wait, I sacrifice for 2 days. I am only connected when it is night and early in the morning, however there were defects on that range of time, that I got disconnected and the worst part of it, when you are in the middle of posting a task in your blog and immediately “A connection Time out” would appear to your browser! It really gives me a headache especially to a person like me who has an Anemia.
Today, as the third day,48 hours is over and I still haven’t received any calls yet, I again and again called the service hotline and re-detail what happen and then telling me to wait for a couple of seconds and then telling me to wait and wait . F*CK THEM, I answered him back! “I am sorry but I have a lot of important things to do Online! And I must be connected overtime, unlimitedly! If this will not be fix! I will ask for a disconnection and transfer to another Internet service provider no matter what”. Then he answered me back (his name is McCoy) repeatedly with a sort of anger in a smooth way! Then without finishing his word, I told him, “Okay I will be expecting that, Bye” and hung up!
Imagine, I subscribe to smart bro for the case of unlimited connection, anytime and overtime and having a speed max of 512mbps but sad to say my maximum is only 260mbps, asking about my area, hey! I am in the downtown area! Moreover, it looks like SMART doesn’t mind it after all, they are only thinking of MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!
I suggest and I highly recommend for all who already subscribe to SMART BRO, please switch to another service. DSL is highly recommended. And those who want to subscribe to Smartbro please! Listen and trust me if you don’t want to have a headache!
(Got the smart broken logo at Pinoy Exchange.com)
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I heard that some Smart Bro users are planning a class action suit against Smart Bro, I don’t know what’s the status on that…
hi there ‘pril. I think you can still remember me
from the seminar
with Marc? 
hehe
anyway, you should really change your ISP if you are really not happy with their services. they really don’t deserve a single penny from you with the kind of services they offer. mag-PLDT na lang d i ka? mas maau man tingali dd2. may gani ka naa kay DSL, ako k antos ug dial-up. hihi.
daghan na sad ko nadawat na ingana na reklamo… specially kad2ng nagaflyff pa ko. Pangit dyud daw ug connection ang smart bro. so tama ra dyud na imong banner
so… agi-agi ra ko. TC
Hello Ara, It’s me Marc.. I’m glad I’ve subscribed with PLDT myDSL instead of Smart Broken.
Smart Broken is a problem if you’re too far from Smart’s cellsite
Hello,
I am a subscriber of smart too. I experience that very same experience. Redundant situations lang palagi. Don’t expect too much from their CSR. I’m pretty sure they know less. One experiment I did when I don’t have a connection is to survey the different answers I get from different CSR. 3 CSR with 3 different answers. But they don’t really even get close to what’s the real problem. It was my canopy antenna, it’s broken. Malalayo talaga kanilang mga conclusions sa real problem.
Hmmm… Sa ngayon oks na ang connection ko for almost 8 months or so na. They even upgraded the cellsite where I connect to to 512kbps from 384 kbps (good thing!).
Hmmm.. PLDT and SMART Telecom are partners I think. They do share the same problems with SMART. But take note, area² lang kasi yan. Lucky if malapit sa cellsite. Try BayanTel. They really do offer better service from what I have heard.
Christopher Baluyut: Walang nangyari sa class suit na yun. It just vanished in thin air. But people’s anguish are still not resolved against this company. ^_^x
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haha.. mag PLDT MyDSL ka nalang pril..
PLDT and SMart are tie-ups.
Coz i remember when i applied for internet at the coffee shop, they made me fill up a Smart Bro Application form and at the same time apply for a PLDT phoneline.
I am currently disappointed with their service.
I am paying 3K a month for the wifi connection at my coffee shop for a 2mb/sec speed.
When they installed it on a friday, it was working. The next day it wasnt working anymore. The following day it still WASNT working… until came TUESDAY morning ( so thats 4 days already). We called Saturday afternoon, they said it was a weekend so no technician was on duty but first thing on Mnday theyd fix it. Monday came we kept calling they said they reported the problem already and we just had to wait for a technician to come and fix it. Then came tuesday…(imagine how many clients came to the shop for WIFI and left coz there wasnt any connection, imagine how this affected the business)… Tuesday morning we called them up and instead of getting good news from the operator, this was what she told us “Mam naka 50 tawag na po kayo sa amin. Pakihintay na lang po ng technician” ..
Hmm… so umusok ang aking tenga…pero decided okay il wait for the technician…maybe hes on his way.
The day finally ended…and no technician was on site.
Wednesday i couldnt afford anymore to lose any of my clients…
So i kept calling them up …hour after hour…
5pm came…Still no technician in site…
So i told the operator that if they did not have the internet connection fixed,
i want the DSL connection CUT.
I told the operator to note down in my account that i want it CUT right away and got the operators name.
….
Long story huh?… then after 30 minutes ..which was already after working hours… a female called and apologiezed. She said she forgot to endorse the problem to the technician… (Ang cute nya noh?) Nway, yun…dumating ang technician after 2 hours and inayos ang DSL…naayos naman. Kasi sira pala ang modem na kinabit nila…then guess what…
The next day… WALA NA NAMAN kaming DSL CONNECTION.
Hahay…So i called them up again and again and again…
The technician came 7pm.
Fixed things…and said he was gona come back the next day to find out whats causing the problem…
And you know what? He never came back.
How about that kind of service for a 3K Corporate Account?
Not worth it.