Accessing Smart Bro Portal on my laptop

I was with Ajay all evening last night at Starbucks Adriatico in Malate for some very confidential undercover project. :p

Thinking that the Starbucks branch there had Airborne Access internet, I brought my laptop with me so we could do some online stuff. I was mistaken.

However, there was this wifi access point available somewhere which my laptop detected. The name of the network suggested that it was from Meridian (or SmartBro) but I was surprised I was able to connect to the network. Surfing wasn’t any good though as I could not get anything.

A few re-connection tries later and my browser was pulling some web page. I really though I got in but again got surprised again that I was redirected to the Smart Bro Portal page. I took a screen shot below:

Smart Bro Portal

Was that supposed to happen? I entered my Airborne Access account hoping that, since Smart/PLDT also owns AA, I could login successfully. Nay. What if I use a SmartBro account?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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220 Comments

Migs says:

19 years ago

So there’s now a “mobile” Smart Bro? Typical of the PLDT group to have competing products in their portfolio…
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vance says:

19 years ago

ang alam ko may weroam ang pldt.

pero diba wired ang smart wifi not wifi talaga so i dunno how that happen.
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hoop says:

19 years ago

It looks like somebody’s wireless router isn’t secured properly… then again, it could be that somebody’s intentionally tapping into smart bro and waiting for somebody to enter their username and password… phishing! :D
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vinvinvin says:

19 years ago

May mga AP ang Smart WiFi/Smart Bro na 2.4Ghz Frequency na pang SendFar bukod sa Canopy na 5.7 Ghz… Wala lang!
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Gloria says:

19 years ago

buwiset na smart bro yan, nag-apply ako online, di ako pinapansin. anyway, mukhang di pa talaga yan abot dito.
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vinvinvin says:

19 years ago

Gloria, taga saan ka ba? Malacanang ba?
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Gloria says:

19 years ago

hay naku, sana nga taga malacanang ako para puwede sindakin ang smart. kaso andito ako sa bulubundukin ng sorsogon eh. :))
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omski says:

19 years ago

yuga,

hoop is correct, somebody’s wireless router is powered on that time and not secured (starbucks neighbor) and this somebody is a SMART BRO subscriber (malas nya! dami problem nito at intermittent and uptime…) He went out for coffee and forgot to shut off his unsecured router! I think you can connect to internet if you have an account with SMART BRO using his wireless router…
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

omski,

thanks for the explanation. now i know. :)
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vinvinvin says:

19 years ago

Naku Abe, kahit i-try mo username at password mo doon, hindi gagana! Try mo lang… Hehehe…
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