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Smartbro experience…including making it work for Ubuntu Linux!

Smart signal is not a problem here as we could get full bars. With the Smartbro prepaid kit, I could get 3 bars at most but internet speed is not that good yet(as I just mentioned). I admit that I got frustrated but I still understand Smart as it’s not yet economical for them to allocate a larger bandwidth to an area that seldom has SmartBro. The only thing that I think Smart should need to improve on is the consistency of internet connectivity. I experience once a week that I can’t browse websites, not even Google using its ip address(to bypass DNS) and image loading in my browser turned-off(which is not a factor as the only image in its homepage is its logo). You can’t say that I don’t have load as I’m sure it’s not empty as I just reloaded it. Anyway, I hope Smart will improve in this aspect. Continue reading

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