thereins04
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband?
Thank you for choosing Cricket Wireless where unlimited is really unlimited. A representative will be with you shortly.
You are now chatting with Travis.
Travis: Thank you for chatting with Cricket Wireless. Can I help you place your order today?
Robert: Well, thing is, i already ordered, and now have questions...
Travis: How may i help you?
Robert: i got the cricket broadband, and i guess i dont understand what you mean by highspeed broadband when i get dial up speeds......
Robert: i have had it for only a day now i figured highspeed would be at least 1mb
Travis: I am sorry to hear that you are unhappy.
Robert: i know its fairly new, does cricket expect the speeds to increase in the near future??
Travis: Sure, we are always expanding, and as the company and coverage grows, along with technology then you can expect it to grow also, in its performance.
Travis: Are there any questions i can answer about it?
Robert: okay, so could you tell me what max speed on cricket bb would be?
Travis: 400-700kbps uploading/40-70kbps downloading with 5g throughput
Robert: okay, whats the 5gb throughput mean?
Travis: That is the total information/data able to be transferred via uploading/downloading and surfing each month
Travis: Beyond that 5g amount, the service may slow down a bit
Robert: okay, so like, if i watch a video on youtube...that wouldnt count, but say i downloaded an email attachment at 300mb, that would count, right?
Travis: All activity counts towards the 5g throughput.
Travis: That is emailing, surfing, searching via search engine, etc
Robert: so basically, cricket set up the broadband only to surf, not to be able to upload or download.........like, i send lots of emails with lots of attachments, or upload to myspace, those add up over the month.........the service doesnt do any good other than to simply surf the net....
Robert: how is that being competitive with your competitors?
Travis: The broadband is for basic Internet users for now, not for gamers or people who use the Internet a lot for uploading and downloading.
Travis: Was this not explained to you when you ordered it?
Robert: no
Robert: the description even of the service on the order page isnt that descriptive, hence why i am talking to you.....
Travis: I am sorry, you have had it for less than 30 days. You can call customer service and see if they can assist you, maybe give you a satisfactory solution.
Robert: no, i dont mean to mislead you here.........i HAVE to have it, i use it for work, so i imagine i will keep it, not many choices where i am for net.......but, at the same time, at the rate i use the net, that 5gb throughput was over in the first week....
Robert: so it left me wondering....will this improve in the next month, or do i get to wait a year for the next move?
Travis: I am sorry, as of now i dont know of it improving, not for a while. I would still call customer service and see if they can provide you with a little more information.
Robert: okay, sounds like that is what i will do tommorow, thanks for your time tonite travis 
Travis: You are welcome, i am sorry for the inconvenience.
Travis: Have a great day
Travis: Thank you for chatting with Cricket today. We value your feedback. Please click the Close button at top right to answer a few questions about your experience with us.
My Positive Feedback to Cricket:
the description of your broadband plan on the order page needs to be a little less confusing, you might consider upgrading the 5gb throughput to like 50gb, and you might consider letting people know its more like dial up right now in its baby stages of development. other than that, i am ecstatic to see cricket go to broadband, and hope it succeeds, just think you could have gone about it a little better than you did. |
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Cricketbad
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
Cricket Broadband Wireless is horrible. I got it last week. Very Rarely will it work acceptably. If it worked like it should all the time it would be a great service. But it NEVER DOES!
Page wont load
Back click
sits.....sits.....sits....
Click link again
sits....sits....sits.....
Over and over and over and over and over again. It's agonizing trying to use Cricket wireless broadband. Almost painful. Think back to the 56k years and quadruple the irritation. They should offer a free refund if someone is THAT unhappy with the Cricket Service. But forget it. you're stuck with the modem and start up bill. Wasted money. Hopefully they will some day get their service fixed. Has potential. But for now you're getting screwed. |
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AbrahamShof
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
Well, I've had this useless piece of crap for over a month... My speeds are down to 10kbs! Try to get to a page without timeing out if you can... There's was no mention of a cap when I purchased it... 10kbs -- I can deliver messages by hand quicker than that... I guess I'll just have to pay my cable bill here in Denver... Cricket is a mess. Tried to talk to them in India... At least, I could almost understand them -- no matter... still have my 10kbs... my reload icon is my friend... I spend so much time with it... I'm 63 years old... wonder how long I have left to reload this page. My headstone will read "10kbs..."... yeah... I like that... |
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NEKRO45
@level3.net
|  reply to formeat
IF YOUR TRYING TO GET CRICKET BROADBAND JUST JUST FORGET ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT REALLY SUCKS  1ST ITS REALLY SLOW IT HAS ITS DAYS WHEN ITS FAST BUT THERE NOT THAT MANY DAYS SO COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT IT AND WHEN I BOUGHT IT IS CAME OUT LIKE $256 APPROX IT REALLY A DISAPPOINTMENT 
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HoustonB
@level3.net
| Portland, Oregon. Started off really good for first 5 months (May 2008 to October). Up to 1.1 mbps download bandwidth.
The last 5 days have been truly miserable. Connection strength is still 100% but bandwidth has never been anywhere near 'broadband'.
I've been online at all times of the day and night - even at 3 AM, after a cold reboot, the bandwidth varies between dial-up (56k) and 100 kbps.
The result is frequent web page request time-outs needing a 'refresh' or try-again. Also, I've noticed that the connection status will very quickly (sub 15 seconds) goes to 'dormant' if there is no activity, resulting in the next web page request invariably failing.
youTube and Google videos are impossible to watch.
Cricket tech support number is impossible to find on their web site. Customer Service (lol what a joke) sucks big time.
Since May 2008 I have had 511 sessions and total data transfer is 1.8 GB, no where near the 5 GB per month limit. I am using Windows XP and I'm a software engineer and would know if my laptop was compromised in any way with for example a virus.
CONCLUSION : Cricket Broadband Wireless Service is a fraudulent con. Save your money and use pen, paper and snail mail. |
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Dave33
@level3.net
| Cricket has slowed down disastrously in Fresno County, CA.
I used to get 500-700 kbps downloads, since about Oct 16 it is 90-100kbps any time, day or night. Tech support seems to just say what they think you want to hear so you get off the phone. |
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David33
@level3.net
| I called Cricket tech support this morning (5:30 AM PST) and got right through to a tech. She had me disconnect the modem and then said she "refreshed the main switch" . When I reconnected my download speeds were back up to 600 kbps! This was a good experience and I am happy again with my Cricket Broadband |
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slowcricket
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
It sounds like there's a lot of variance in speeds here. I'm in Las Vegas, always have full signal strength and have never had speeds beyond 70 kB/s. I can only get those speeds late at night or early in the morning. It can drop down to 15 during the day with lots of timeouts. I'm totally blown away that some people are getting hundreds of kB/s. |
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cricket_in_ATX
@level3.net
|  reply to formeat
I have had my modem for a couple of days and it has given me a solid 500kbps - 900kbps+ connection with out any drops. I am very impressed, especially after reading some of the bad reviews. I ordered on line and got $71 off the modem. Now I have only tried it in south west Austin. In a few days I will go to San Antonio and find out how mobile it really is.
So far I have downloaded Open Office using a torrent and stumbled a lot of videos with out to much trouble, also have used hamachi and ultravnc with out any trouble. |
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Lil d
@level3.net | reply to formeat
I am using cricket broadband right now and i can tell you it runs great it does have some slow spots but what do you expect for wireless internet. I would recomend it I think it is well worth the money |
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rocanrolo102787
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
ive had this service for about a month now and recently my download speeds have been going down alot,im not good with this stuff,so can someone explain what the 5gb limit means?im actually in mexico and didnt get very good speeds but would go up to 40kb when doing p2p but now im lucky if it gets to 10kb.im about 10 minutes from the border so i get signal strength of about 45%.can anyone help me out,any feedback would be really appreciated.i wolud call tech support but since im in mexico i know what their going to say. |
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lollollol
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
Well, since my last post.
Cricket has apparently fixed their network not responding problems a few weeks ago.
Yippy! Been working as it should be now...
I'm sure glad I don't have to go back to dialup @ 3.9kb max!
and once in a while my dial up would go all the way up to 4.1kb..wooo hooo...lol... it was like a tv with 1 channel.
**** If your using VISTA. You really should change the MTU.
Vista is defaulted to 1500... and that is just to big of packets for cricket.
So you may get pages half way loading up or not loading up at all even when the network is working fine...
I had to drop the mtu down to 1368 for best performance.
Refer to: »www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/vistaMTU.htm
to change vista's mtu.
If you have uac user access control on...
* You would click: Start> Programs> Accessories>
and right-click on command prompt and select
"Run as Administrator"
and then type in:
netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Cricket Wireless" mtu=1368 store=persistent
and yes the quotes are included above..
and No need to restart or disconnect as the mtu is changed on the fly.
Although I would stop downloading anything when you change it.
To find the correct mtu using command prompt...
Type: ping -f -l 1400 www.opendns.com
(Thats an -L not a one.)
opendns was the worst ping site so this is what I used to set...
In other words ping the site your having problems with.
Google worked ok at 1428, while opendns and other sites would not load up at all or half way load up.
but setting mtu at 1368, every site seems to work fine.
but yes, it can be different for your location.
Basicly you wanna lower it until you don't see:
Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.
and then add 28 when you find the right setting...
So I typed: ping -f -l 1340 www.opendns.com
So 1340 was ok, then I added 28, making it 1368 for my mtu.
To bad there's no way to change vista's RWIN values...
its all auto, turning that off did not help.
So just try the mtu setting of 1368 and see if that helps anyone else that may be having page load problems.
I bet it works much better after you change it.
Cause I know the vista default of 1500 is too big for cricket.
Just to note I'm using the usb modem using usb 2.0 ports.
and usually have 85-100% signal..right now its 100%.
and also to note opendnsDOTcom does not work with cricket, so don't bother changing the dns server to theirs..lol
been there done that. and it didn't go to nothin then..
XP should be ok.. I believe it's defaulted to 1300, so you may need to increase the value.
On xp you can change all the settings using Dr TCP. »/drtcp.
You must restart xp and older for changes to take effect. |
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judagrmn
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
Hey everyone 1st time post here.
My girlfriends mother recently purchased cricket Unlimited broadband here in Denver, CO since my lady is going back to school, she wanted something mobile to do her school work. I got it out of the box for the first time yesterday and was doing some homework seeing how fast they were etc. I came across this thread and noticed the post about there being a 5gb download cap. Is this true? I thought that unlimited meant unlimited? I noticed some fine print in the pamphlet that came with the modem said "unlimited coverage not available everywhere; coverage maps at mycrickethotspot.com" so I checked it out. My area here in denver shows unlimited coverage area so does that mean there is no download cap? I couldn't find anything on their sites FAQ or help section about a cap.
Thanks |
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cricket_in_ATX
@swbell.net
| reply to cricket_in_ATX
I took my laptop to San Antonio and I ran across slow downs and gaps here and there but the signal has been pretty good from south Austin, down the ih35 corridor all the way to the north west San Antonio. I have also used it for streaming radio while driving and it works great. I didn't realise that the connection also does SMS which has been very useful. |
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swsky1netzeronet
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
I just purchased Cricket wireless in Arizona. They advertized on internet at their site for $25 activation fee, and 40 a month nothing else.
When all was done, it came to 144.45 total. There is a
$109 dollar fee for modem. and first months rent.
Other than false advertizment of fees, I have been using
Cricket wireless for a week now. So far so Good.
GOOD luck. |
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Promecus
@level3.net
| I'm glad that you enjoy your new Cricket service. You've had it one week you say? Ok, just wait until the 60 day return policy expires and they move you to the crap list. Mine also worked awsome for the first 60ish days and then suddenly performance dropped down to that of a 14.4K modem. It's nothing but shit in this area now and I'm going to switch to a new ISP the moment I find a decent one. |
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homeslycer33
@mindspring.com
| reply to formeat
i had cricket broadband card for a week it was alright but i decided to switch to sprint . It is alot faster alot better coverage and better qualities about the card. Crickets breaks too easily very cheaply made..... Go with Sprint only ten dollars more and alot better too... |
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JimmyBeen
@Level3.net
| reply to formeat
I have had Cricket Wireless Since July and all of a sudden in half my house will not connect. I call them up and they tell me to uninstall the software and that should work. Nope, I am getting 2 bars and it will not connect. So then I think the device is defective and call tech again. She tells me take it to the store to have them test it. So I take it to the store and the dumb girl working goes" o on your account tech said nothing about taking it into the store and we can't test it here. So I call Up tech and they add it to the account and I take it in and they charge me $45 dollars to look at it and if it it not defective I get a $35 dollar credit back. So they send out, give me a new one. Get home plug it in and it works for 1 hour and goes out. WTF. So I then take my laptop and drive to the nearest cell tower 3 miles away and test it and 4 bars and it works. Then drive a mile away and test it and 3 bars and works. Then go infront of my house and test it and it dont work. Walk in the back yard and it works. Only the main room in the house it will connect to with 2 bars. And I Ask how come all along it has worked and all of a sudden the signal gets lost in the house. Your telling me I basically have to walk outback by the cows to get online? Somebody messed with the towers and now this crap dont work in the house. And I am going to have to eat a $45 dollar fee beacuse they could not test it in store?? I got on fine with 2 bars all the time and tech tells me you need more than 2 to get on. I wish somebody at this place knew a bit about the crap they sell. |
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gimpdude
@level3.net
| reply to formeat
ok so i got this thing back in february of this year and it worked great...for about 6 months the past 2 have been horrible max speed is 20kb which to me seems really lame for a so called "broadband" connection...btw i used to get 60k down even on a low signal now i got 4 bars constantly and can't get past 20k...it's convenient for me to be able to take this thing anywhere i go i'm in college so i do a lot of research online for school and maybe a lil just cuz i'm a nerd lol. anyways i bought into theirs cuz it was half price from what verizon was charging. i found out later on that they do have the 5GB cap which they never told me but the one time i got a chance to check out the speeds on verizon it was too slow i thought. ping times were over 200ms and the speeds weren't that great either...so i got cricket and now my ping times are up over 400ms...speedtest.net reports 100kbps down and 300kbps up which i thought was kind of funny cuz crickets TOS prohibits running servers on that connection(ironic isn't it?) well anyways thats my two cents...if u need wireless internet get it cuz it's the cheapest thing out...if u don't need wireless then get a hard wired DSL or cable connection cuz those are so much faster...oh yeah i also removed the cap on windows TCP cuz that crap was just annoying i was only getting half the speed i should no matter what service i had cept for dialup but ur not gonna get much past 5k on a dialup anyways and the cap doesn't make a difference |
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linkstarr
join:2008-11-20
Conroe, TX | reply to lollollol
GreaT review i lmao 2 thumbs up |
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