Review of Smart Bro Plan 999, honestly
Smart Bro isn't that bad not as bad as some of the complaints regarding downtime that I found on the net, so far I have been using it since march and have experience around 48 hours of accumulated downtime about 5 to6 hours a day and I also found out their technical support are no help during downtime, they are poorly trained and lacks basic technical knowledge or understanding of network concept and protocols, anyway if you just want to have a faster
Internet connection than dial up and your just planning to use your
Internet connection for e-mail, surfing the net, instant messaging,
irc, or other non-vital or critical stuff such as income related activities Smart Bro is good enough, but if your planning to use it to host an ftp, web, or a jump server to be access from the
Internet, forget about Smart Bro as it doesn't assign you a public
IP nor allow you to purchase one, so you won't be able to get to your server without help of a
third party
VPN provider such as "
Hamachi", if your planning to use it for torrent download take note that you wouldn't be able to upload files through torrent as
leechers won't be able to see your opened port from the net due to the port not being forwarded from Smarts firewall/router, if you plan to use it for work income related activities, you better get another
DSL provider for backup or load balancing because once Smart Bro goes down it will take at least 5 to 6 hours for them to restore your connection, overall I would recommend Smart Bro to casual/basic
Internet users.
Pros:
Cons:
1 year contract upon installation
Incompetent technical support
5 to 6 hours minimum downtime(when it does goes down)
NAT'ed IP
No option to purchased public IP
Poor connection during heavy rains
