Last March, I bought the Smart bro Prepaid kit. I'm so excited at first because at last, I can have broadband in my house. Since it is prepaid, it is affordable. I can buy Php30.00 in any smart outlet.
The first time that I used it, the time is around 7pm. At some point it is in high speed but sometimes, it's data rate become's zero. Then I experimented on what time of the day Smart Bro will become fastest. The result is that when I go online between 7am to 3pm it can reach to 1.8mbps and when it is 8pm onwards, it became super slow with an average of 40kbps. So dial-up is much faster than this Smart Bro. And when you download big file, it is a luck if you successfully download it because sometimes it disconnect on it's own even you have an extra load. My experience is that when I download a particular game with a size of 150MB, it reached to about 80 percent then it automatically disconnect. I don't know why it disconnected. Well that sucks. And sometimes when an airplane pass, the signal is lower. Maybe since it is a signal powered, it is affected. Well, that's acceptable. So maybe next I go online, I make sure that I only connect when an airplane already pass.
Smart Bro has negative characteristics but we can accept it since we don't have any budget for monthly fees. And what's great about Smart bro, uhmmm... When you watch video in youtube, it is fast beetween peak hours (7am to 3pm). The highest rate that Smart Bro achieve in my house is 2.9mbps. well that's fast. It's portability is also a plus. So when you want to buy some, it is just only 1995 and it comes with 5 hours free. About Globe Broadband and Sun, I haven't tried it yet. So that's it. Tee hee.
