Q: Why did we get PLDT Home Ultera?
A: We didn't. We had a SMART Bro connection at home for 999 per month. One day, a technician from SMART went to our house and said that there's a mandatory "upgrade" which means faster internet for the same price. Of course we availed! Who didn't like upgrades right?
P.S. If you look at it, Ultera is offered at 699 at the market now and we're still freakingly paying it for 999 a month because we're still with our previous SMART Bro Plan 999. Unfair.
Q: So how was it?
A: Let me count the ways:
1. Our bandwidth increased BUT we have this limit of something-Gig worth of download per month. If we reached our limit, the bandwidth will decrease. Talk about Torrent downloads, we cannot maximize the connection unlike when we we're still on SMART Bro.
2. We cannot change our own router's user name and password. Which sucks! We have this theory that our router is connected to a "mother" router where all Ultera users in our area are connected that's why we cannot change the router's username and password.
3. We're getting a LOT of captcha every time we browse. Which sucks, again!
Whenever we click a link from facebook or even going directly to a site, a page for captcha needs to be answered first. Every. Effin. Time. When you browse, you need to fill up a captcha. When you want to read an important article, you need to fill up the captcha. What the?!
Most of the time, the captcha is like this:
Q: Will you recommend it?
A: No. Our internet got slower. Sometimes the internet connection gets lost. A million captcha needs to be filled up before you can browse. Just No.
A: We didn't. We had a SMART Bro connection at home for 999 per month. One day, a technician from SMART went to our house and said that there's a mandatory "upgrade" which means faster internet for the same price. Of course we availed! Who didn't like upgrades right?
P.S. If you look at it, Ultera is offered at 699 at the market now and we're still freakingly paying it for 999 a month because we're still with our previous SMART Bro Plan 999. Unfair.
Q: So how was it?
A: Let me count the ways:
1. Our bandwidth increased BUT we have this limit of something-Gig worth of download per month. If we reached our limit, the bandwidth will decrease. Talk about Torrent downloads, we cannot maximize the connection unlike when we we're still on SMART Bro.
2. We cannot change our own router's user name and password. Which sucks! We have this theory that our router is connected to a "mother" router where all Ultera users in our area are connected that's why we cannot change the router's username and password.
3. We're getting a LOT of captcha every time we browse. Which sucks, again!
Whenever we click a link from facebook or even going directly to a site, a page for captcha needs to be answered first. Every. Effin. Time. When you browse, you need to fill up a captcha. When you want to read an important article, you need to fill up the captcha. What the?!
Most of the time, the captcha is like this:
Q: Will you recommend it?
A: No. Our internet got slower. Sometimes the internet connection gets lost. A million captcha needs to be filled up before you can browse. Just No.
