My Terrible Experience at Globe Service center regarding Globe Tattoo

[kirby_agudelo]

I started craving for the wireless broadband USB dongle of GLOBE braned as GLOBE TATTOO. My brother's GLOBE VISIBILITY works fine in my UBUNTU system. The only problem was the poor signal in our house in cavite. So I thought maybe it would be better in Makati.

So I went to the GLOBE SERVICE CENTER at Park Square 1 at the Ayala Center in Makati to

Comments

[psychomadness]

ITT: sales people need to be more technically informed.

yup

[anonymous]

sales people are indeed stupid in the philippines...they dont know anything...its useless beating around the bush to talk to these fools

updates?

[anonymous]

So, did you already buy it? Is it working well?

Re: updates?

[kirby_agudelo]

no i haven't bought it yet.

though I have already used my brother's GLOBE VISIBILITY which is practially the same. but i haven't used it here in makati yet

Re: updates?

[anonymous]

i visited globe today and tried running globe tattoo...and was not able to make it work ..i tried it using wine...but it was not able to detect the device(maybe it was permission thingie)...i didnt have much time since the personel who i talked to keeps asking me if i am done..grrr...

i tried visibility also and it werks on my box....

if globe tattoo works on your box please do post back..

thanks

Re: updates?

[kirby_agudelo]

I used usb mode switch please see my blog entry regarding it

http://kirby-agudelo.livejournal.com/144087.html

all it does is make the usb modem switch to its modem function. after being able to do it, your system can connect to it like a regular modem

please also see related articles (for other linux variants)
http://kirby-agudelo.livejournal.com/143632.html

Globe service staff are #### and uneducted on sales n products

[anonymous]

Re: globe usb e1553 (in Bacolod)

i was going to purchase the globe tattoo usb at a little cell store,
however after asking about connections and signals,
the worker scared me away... by saying....
"yeh yeh yeh, all good, works fine, great deal, many people use it"

so i decided to go to the globe store.
they gave me the same answer. (much nicer though)
so i decided that it must be tru, n bought one.
however it didnt work, well it worked so slowly, it drove me insane !

after returning to the store, i was told globe has only one tower for 3g
n its located at the mall on the other side of the city.

and after explaining that i told them where i lived n what i wanted to do n how to use it,
they just smiled.
n shrugged !!!!

i went to smart, they sent a rep to my work n house.
he plugged a usb into my laptop in both places n let me try it out.
so i bought a smart, n it worked PERFECTLY.

bobo talaga mga technician dito sa pinas

[anonymous]

bumili ako ng acer emachines netbook sa mega mall, kasi nakalagay dun linux compatible. ayun nun ininstallan ko na sa bahay, hindi gumagana yun mic at wifi, hindi ko na masyado nakalikot dahil hinahabol ko yun 1 week replacement nila(thinking may problema yun netbook na nabili ko), nun andun na ko at kausap ko na yun technician, habang nagbooboot, pagsulpot nun ubuntu logo, iniabot kaagad sakin na parang may leprosy yun laptop, ayaw hawakan, sabi ko hindi pa nga nagboboot ayaw mo na testinging, sabi niya ay hindi po kami nag aayos pag linux, "free software kasi yan, paulit ulit sya sa pag sabi na free software yan. kaasar kasi hindi man lang nya pinatapos magboot ayaw na nya tignan. or bobo lang talaga sya hindi niya alam yun ubuntu. gusto ko nga sabihin, hoy ang nagpapatakbo ng most web servers sa BUONG mundo eh free software. wala lang masyado nya minaliit ang ubuntu/linux. wala tayo magagawa...bobo talaga mga technician dito sa pinas.

Re: bobo talaga mga technician dito sa pinas

[anonymous]

Mas proud naman akong sabihing Ubuntu ang system ko kesa naman Windows-based nga, PIRATED naman, tapos pinatch lang yung WGA protection, sinong mas cheap ngayon? Hehehe...