1. Press the Menu button.
2. Then tap Settings.
3. Choose Wireless & networks (usually the first option unless you have custom UI [e.g. HTC Sense UI, Samsung TouchWiz UI])
4. Select Mobile networks.
5. Then go to Access Point Names.
6. Press the Menu button.
7. Then tap New APN.
8. Supply the following settings:

• For Globe Telecom
  • Name: GLOBE (or anything you want)
  • APN: http.globe.com.ph
  • LEAVE THE REST OF THE FIELDS AS-IS
• For Smart and Talk and Text
  • Name: SMART (or anything you want)
  • APN: internet
  • LEAVE THE REST OF THE FIELDS AS-IS
• For SUN PREPAID
  • Name: SUN (or anything you want)
  • APN: minternet
  • Authentication type: PAP
  • LEAVE THE REST OF THE FIELDS AS-IS
• For SUN POSTPAID or line
  • Name: SUN (or anything you want)
  • APN: fbband
  • Authentication: PAP
  • LEAVE THE REST OF THE FIELDS AS-IS

For SUN Prepaid and Postpaid, you may need to activate mobile internet service. You may request service activation by calling 888.

Enjoy your Internet!

These WiFi minutes can be used in any WiZ hotspot (Wireless Internet Zones) around the country, including most Starbucks coffee shops.

Instead of paying a hundred bucks an hour for Internet on your next visit to Starbucks, just don’t forget to copy your Globe Broadband username and password and redeem your two free hours per month. The format of the username is [alias]@globelines.com.ph where alias is the username you gave when you applied. The default password is your account number which is reflected on your bill.

If you are quite unsure of your username or password, you may call their hotlines @ (02) 9198888. The number is toll-free if you dial the number from a Globelines landline, local landline or Globe Telecom mobile number.

Globe Calls is a free app that keeps prefixes of Globe call promos. This means you don’t have to memorize all those prefixes as they are stored on the app itself. You just have to open the app and dial the number from there. As of now, the following promos are in the Globe Calls list:

• Sakto Calls (10 centavos per second, 5 centavos per second on Sundays)
• P10/3 min
• Tawag 236 (P20/20min)
• Unlicalls Nyt

The only problem I see in this app is that it doesn’t have an update option. Once all of those promos terminate, the application becomes useless. New promos are not added on the fly, too. It’s too hassle for end-users to download a version of the app manually everytime new promos are released.

Globe Calls has a Touch Mobile counterpart, TM Calls.

Last Friday, we had our Globe Broadband connected at the apartment. Globe Telecom deployed a PROLiNK Hurricane 5200 as our ADSL modem. Since we wanted to share the Internet connection throughout the room, we bought a Linksys WRT54G2 wireless router.

Configuring the PROLiNK Hurricane 5200 to work with Linksys WRT54G2 wasn’t that easy. Here’s a rough guide on how to do it. This guide must work with other models (such as Hurricane 9200) and other brands, but the steps will differ.

1. Place the modem to bridge mode.
   • Connect your modem to the computer thru the Ethernet (CAT5) cable.
   • Fire up your browser and go to http://192.168.1.1/globe
   • Go to WAN Configuration under Internet Interface.
     • You will be asked for a username and password. Use this:
       Username: Admin
       Password: 3UJUh2VemEfUtesEchEC2d2e
   • At the bottom of the page is the list of existing configurations. Delete them all by clicking the trash configuration icon.
   • On the same page, create a configuration. Fill in the VPI, VCI  and Channel Mode settings with the following:
     
   • Disable DHCP Server. Under LAN Interface, go to DHCP Settings. Choose None and click Apply Changes. unnecessary according to motion55 of PinoyDSL
   • Disable routing. Go to Routing under Advance. Choose None in Default Gateway and click Apply Changes. unnecessary according to motion55 of PinoyDSL
   • Restart your MODEM. Under Admin, go to Save and Reboot. Click Commit and Reboot.
2. Disconnect the modem to your PC. Connect your PC thru Ethernet (CAT5) cable to your wireless router. Use any port in the wireless router EXCEPT the Internet port.
3. Configure your router.
   • Fire up your browser and go to http://192.168.1.1/. The username is blank and the password could be one of the following: admin, password, pass.
   • The default page is the basic setup page.
   • Find the local IP address field. Change it to 192.168.1.2 to avoid conflict with your modem’s I.P. address.
   • After the changes are committed, you need to go to 192.168.1.2 and login again.
   • Still under basic setup, change Automatic Configuration DHCP to PPPoE.
     
   • Enter your Globe Broadband username and password.
4. Connect, connect and connect. Connect the Ethernet cable from the modem to the wireless router’s INTERNET port.
5. Do a hard reset of  your modem and wireless router by depriving them power (unplugging) for at least 10 seconds. Power them up and enjoy!

If you run into any problems, just comment and I’ll try to answer them if I can.

URL of image when not cached.

I’ve noticed though that they replace the URL of images inside <img> tags with another URL on their server for caching. This, in turn, causes some problems with web applications that requires authentication and generates images on the fly such as StatCounter. This replacement/caching process is only done when Globe Telecom detects that you are using a web browser on a computer or on a mobile phone (I curl-ed this website and the output did not have any URL replacements).

URL after caching. Notice, the cached and compressed image is in Globe or a third-party partner’s server.

As a workaround, you can spoof your User-Agent by modifying the headers of your requests. You may do this in Firefox by:

1. Going to about:config. A warning will have to scare you but just continue.
2. Then, find the general.useragent.extra.firefox setting. Using the filter above may help you find it.
3. Once you find it, double click the entry and change it to whatever you want. For it to work, it should not contain words like Mozilla, Firefox, Safari or other web browsers. I’ve changed mine to MikkoFox.

Have fun browsing without cached images.