Smarty enough for Smart Bro, and 3G
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Finally, I’m now on broadband! 
I made the move today to Smart Bro as they have been touting a promotion offering free installation and a 384 Kbps connection via their Canopy system. As I’ve been mostly offline (or slightly online, counting the occasional GPRS modem connection on a GSM network) I figured that this is the best way at the moment to get broadband connectivity, as the only DSL choices available locally have been either seriously damaged (due to the last supertyphoon) or excessively priced (with unpredictable foreign-currency adjustments.)
So, needless to say, I’m now enjoying myself with this new investment. Adding to this, I also got a new Netgear WGR614v7 wireless router so I can share the connectivity with perlis. While not exactly as flexible as the famous WRT45G from Linksys, it surely does the job to sharing the Net, so I’ve no complaints about it. And I’ve no complaints about the service offered by Smart Bro, either; the installer did an absolutely good job of making sure that the Canopy SM is on the most receptive direction and even gave me some pointers on what to expect with such a connection. Actually, I’ve already made arrangements about the peeves experienced by other Smart Bro users by taking a cue from Joey Hess by setting up the right service caches and by being not too abusive with my expectations.
But, I still have a lot to expect with this new connection. After all, I still have a few more items on my TODO that needs doing, namely writing about what the hell happened to me since last month until now, and my future directions (erm, resolutions) for this new year. Ah well…
… but first, I need to do some monster dist-upgrades… 
BTW: a UMTS (3G) signal has finally been broadcast in Daet, giving me a reason to also have smart-3g as a backup service in case the Canopy goes down. Yipee!
