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$38 per month avg ($10 to $60)

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Review by geeke19 See Profile
UPDATED: 2 years ago
member for 5.2 years, 56 visits, last login: 46 days ago


Lake Cormorant,Desoto,MS
$60 per month (24 month contract)
about 3 days
"no FAP, Fast Speeds, 99.% uptime"
"sure it can be slow at times but still way better than wildblue"
"check to see if you can get sprint or verizon EVDO before you sign up with satellite internet."
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    I was with wildblue from March 2006 to now, I started looking very hard for another broadband provider and I found sprint. Good thing I did cause after having them for one week it feels so great to have broadband with no limits can upstream anything I want, download anything I want with no annyoing email saying I am going over my limit. One of the order things I love is the low pings in the 100-255ms range can finally play wolfenstien et and unreal online. I have the pantech px-500 hooked up to a airlink router so my computers will be networked, signal is 4 to 6 bars which is good for me cause I am like 5.67 miles from the tower. If you are only getting like 600kb down and 77kb up, try using a program called cablenut to tweak your settings. I done that this morning and I am getting 1.3mb down and 390kb up.

    testmy.net
    speedguide.net
    dslreports.com
    evdoforums.com

    couple of sites to help you out at getting the most of your sprint mobile broadband.

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    geeny

    @spcsdns.net

    Terrible Sprint Part II

    It's been months now since my last post: »/comment/61877

    The court action idea turned out to be a waste of time. The "experts" said that it's not worth the time and money, and that the problems people were having varied. So, any legal action should be done individually.

    A few weeks after posting my review/opinion, Sprint seems to have done something to improve the coverage area and speed, and the signal meter on the connection manager stayed up. However the overall speeds are still much slower than Sprint advertises. When watching streaming media like move trailers or music videos on the net, there is constant re-buffering. There's never a solid connection. This is mostly with media streams that are only about 200-300 kbps, which is much slower than the max 500+ kbps I sometimes get.

    Okay now, another problem pops up. Just recently the connection with the 720 USB modem started to die after an average of ten minutes without activity. It just dies. But the connection manager software shows that it's still connected. In order to get things going again I have have to disconnect and then reconnect using the Go button. Talk about inconvenient.

    I think that the software designers are responsible for the problems rather than the ones that maintain the hardware. Sprint leadership needs to tell these guys to test any device software better before releasing it. The software should be thoroughly tested with Windows to see if there there any issues with the Windows networking protocols.

    I hate having to contact Sprint customer support all the time because the support people are nice and friendly and try to help with as much info as they are given by the company. Unfortunately most of the time they don't have the right technical answers for some of the software issues. It's not their fault.
    permalink · 2007-11-29 17:44:04 · Print · Reply to this
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