Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? in Wireless Users Chat http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20587406 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:19 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:19 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23769309 anon : Flat out, cricket isn't an alternative and you're better off spending the extra 10-20 bucks for a quality service. It's connection is incredibly spotty, slow for downloads and uploads, and you can forget any chat or streaming video, unless you've got the patience of a saint. We've had the service for 2 weeks and already set up an appointment to get our old carrier back. I say this of course, assuming in your home the internet is used frequently and for more than just browsing basic websites. I would honestly recommend Cricket for broadband if it were about 20 bucks a month, because then I'd feel like I'm getting what I pay for.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23769309 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:33:12 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23743943 Jim_in_VA : wow, to me that is pricey for those speeds. But hey, as long as you are happy ... But Tulsa? , you should have other options
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It says
* Throughput may be limited if use exceeds 5GB per month.
* Internet browsing does not include, "Machine-to-machine connections, "Peer to peer (P2P) connections."
but that's not necessarily true.................. :p

I got a strange configuration so it dosent show Im using any bandwidth and and the p2p works (Machine-to-machine) works fine :o

down speeds at 65-80kB range :huh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23328605 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:52:05 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23290876 anon : They built my new cricket store in the corner of the local laundary matt....And I believe the same person who cleans the dryer lent, also sold me the cricket... Soo many lies...when I asked how the speed compared to cable? she told me it was faster than cable or wireless? shame on me for not searching into this before I bought...I bad mouth this service to everyone I know...If you only want to check your mail, it works fine. to download 1 song,you might aswell hand write the music,and get out the old guitar,and record it yourself...bye,bye cricket]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23290876 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:35:30 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23275221 anon : And yes, Cricket "froze" on my while posting the previous message- twice.
It stinks.
Contracts with major telecos stink too, so pick your poison. If you MUST have mobile service, Cricket is a poor option. If you can use a cable land-line, Cricket is an abominable option.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23275221 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:26:10 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23275209 anon : Yes, for about one year, in Wichita Ks.
It worked well when I got it, speeds of 80-300 k-BITS (not bytes).
But it appears it has become popular, and now it is occassionally still 80-300 kBITS, but more typically, 30-50 kBITS. About the same as dial up.
And worse- there are now periods, EVERY WEEK, where it simply doesn't work- AT ALL- the web freezes for 20-30 minutes. It seems almost as if it's can't find bandwidth to get on. The little diagnostic program SAYS it logs on, and sure enough, it transfers maybe 4000-5000 bits, at 300 BITS (NOT KBITS, NOT BYTES, NOT KBYTES/sec, but 300 BITS per second). Then, nothing. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes. Happens EVERY WEEKEND now (afternoon and early evenings), and EVERY night (7-9 pm).
The good:
1) No Contract (it sucks soooo bad, I wouldn't even think about using it if there were one)
2) Price is x2 dial up, and speed averages...x2 dialup
3) Occasional, several times faster.
The bad:
1) Occasional, doesn't work- AT ALL
2) Price is 70% of cable, which KICKS CRICKETS ASS
3) It has HORRIBLE national coverage, I have found while travelling.
Summary:
Unless you can live with 3rd world reliability, and worse than 3rd worlds speeds- you will think it is tolerable. For about three weeks, then it will drive you crazy. You will be MUCH happier with any other name brand service.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23275209 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:25:48 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23255083 lila25 : i like you. :D

& you're right. i have a broadband from cricket & it
works perfect.
if you have problems with the internet being slow
why don't you go back to the store and exchange it for another.
sometimes happens that particular broadband might be defective.
i knew someone that had that problem & it was fixed just by doing an exchange. ppl gotta think out of the box.

& for the person that said that they didn't say anything about 45 days and then wait another 60 days to get the mail in rebate maybe you should of taken the time to read the mail in rebate form!!! is on there!
in total takes 8-12 weeks to get the rebate.
obviously you have to pay the first month of service if not the rebate gets cancel!
ppl just want everything the easy way. :huh: yes sad..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23255083 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:49:40 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23240875 anon : I have the Cricket Wireless USB Modem and I live in Houston Texas and I dont have any problems with it and it is 40 bux a month. Taxes are like only a dollar something a month. my bill is 41.40 a month. The modem cost me 105.00 and I get a 50.00 mail in rebate. if any questions feel free to call me 281 733 4530
HENRY]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23240875 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:17:30 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23211787 anon : In all honesty Cricket Broadband is a total waste! I have the phone service, which is pretty good. ($50 a month with unlimited calling, text, internet, and 200 roaming). But as for the broadband goes its terrible. I have a network set up at home and try to watch netflix off the Xbox360 and the best picture quality is only 2 bars. My neighbor upstairs has Cable and always receives 5 bars(Cricket's crappy download speed is slow and Bandwidth sucks). Thanks Cricket for your crappy wannabe high speed internet]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23211787 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:27:10 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23210257 anon : got it, hate it, and do not plan to keep it, the phone is ok. there is no p2p, slow as hell, cant even play a flv from you tube without taking forever and a day! not tops on my list!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23210257 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:24:08 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23205304 anon : Just throwing my 2 cents in....I have had cricket for a little less than a year. I live outside the Chattanooga TN area and get very decent connection speed (at least decent for broadband - and ALL broadband has some issues...period.) even though I am certain I am not that close to a tower.

If you have no life and sit playing online games such as WoW. Have your mommy and daddy buy you dsl or cable. If all you do is download pirated music or movies find your nearest locally owned music store where you can buy used cd's (which I don't care what anyone says are still better quality than downloaded stuff) and help support your local economy.

Don't get me wrong. I am no pro or saint and I do like P2P sites, but they should not be used obsessively. I just recently removed limewire because I desire quality over convenience.

And speaking of Download limits. Which I've heard they ALL have to a certain degree (even verizon and comcast) but I am not positive on that. I can't tell. The first month I had cricket I downloaded over 5gb's worth of software and misc. files not including the streaming video I watch and never got the first warning or cut-off. I haven't checked it recently cause I had cricket cut for 3 months (and to do that all you have to do is stop paying for it, I love the no contract part) cause I lost my job and had no income. It was $55 to get turned back on and I was back online within a few minutes. And my bill is 42 a month tax and all (would be $5 cheaper if you have phone service too).

Sometimes Customer service can be a very difficult issue. I originally bought it in Fort O' but they new jack **** about anything. When I had to reactivate luckily there was another store closer to where I lived and the time he took and consideration he gave me were tops. Calling the support center over the phone is always iffy. (If they are like most mobile carriers they outsource that department to overseas somewhere and I am more of a face to face consumer) and sometimes it is hard to get the modem to load on your computer (I had to reformat my hard drive just because I couldn't find the conflicting software but I am sure someone could have found a better way.)

True, speed can be an issue if your streaming movies or loading complex pages (If I compared it to the DSL connection running on a network I used at work it is only slightly slower, slightly faster if it is a crowded network). But it is possible to change some browser settings to slightly improve this issue. (what I've tested so far really didn't impress me) But I have learned what to do to best enjoy sites such as hulu and youtube. (relatively speaking of course)

Bottom line is...........
What do you need it for. If your a business person on the go but with a limited travel range and need something where you can send quick emails (which I don't so don't take my word for that part) or medium sized file transfers or just looking up information. It does the job. And from where I'm sitting it does it rather well.

If your a gamer. Don't bother. Go outside get a game of tag or hide and seek going and get some sun on that pale pasty face. Unless you can handle the lag times and sometime problems with connection to the game server.

If you want to download misc. files. Remember the size of the file does matter, downloading a 2GB movie will take forever and can be rented much easier and if you can't wait long enough for it to come out on DVD find a flea market where a guy sells bootlegs cheap, (and yes their still around). Sending specs for a cabinet install to a foreman at the site over the internet barely took a few minutes.

If you have the physical memory and a good graphics accelerator and adjust a few browser settings and find a good tcp/ip optimizer that is easy to use with a usb modem (I haven't found a GOOD FREE one yet so if anyone knows please post it) Streaming (not downloading) and watching live shows on a site such as justintv exceeded my expectations.

I hope I did not offend anyone, this was just my opinion.

That being said if I had money to burn and a phone line run to the house I would have gotten DSL (I'll never have anything to do with comcast). I was hoping the EPB would have their system fully set up and available in my area, I am curious to see how that compares to all the rest.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23205304 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:17:02 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23202080 delmarvawifi : You could VPN to an endpoint that gives you a public address.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23202080 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:48:17 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23201875 anon : Had the Cricket BB for almost a week now. Looking for a way to get my bit-torrent client to connect. Perhaps get a different client, not sure yet. I ended up getting the 10Gig a month plan to allow large file DL's There must be a workaround to the client not recieving connections. Any suggestions?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23201875 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:25:21 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23199854 anon : :) i just got it a week ago. worst thing i ever bought. can't get any coverage better than "weak reception" in the kenosha racine area. unreal. junk. you can have mine free when my free month is up. don't waste your time. unreal. dial up works better than this thing. no joke. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23199854 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:15:58 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23197806 hematitan : I've had Cricket since July and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone...Here are my speeds with 3 out of 4 bars. If you notice my upload speed is higher than my download speed.


I am in the process of switching to Millenicom's 3g truly unlimited service. It runs off of sprint's towers which average about 1.2 to 1.4 mbps. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23197806 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:02:46 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23194552 anon : I have had Cricket for a lil over 2 weeks....have had no issues with speed/ disconnects/or any other problems posted........I used to tether my HTC TouchPro2 thru TMobile and I must say Cricket is by far faster in Chicago. And my Outlook 2007 works perfectly without s=changing my settings.

Maybe speed and disconnects have to do with the are/city you are in.

Shawn]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23194552 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:21:42 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23191226 anon : my experience with cricket wireless broadband is I will tell everyone and anyone not to waist the time or money. I spend 2 hrs just to try to get connected and when i do i can use it 3 minutes and loose the connection, than takes another 2 hrs to get reconnected. i use my pc for business with my company so yes word of mouth will hopefully turn cricket into a better deal or they need to get out.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23191226 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:21:15 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23180350 CyberDude : I posted this previously! This is the outlook configuration with Cricket because Cricket blocks port 25.

Incoming Mail (POP3) Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port: 995)
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port: 465, use authentication)
Account Name/Login Name: Your Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address without the "@yahoo.com")
Email Address: Your Yahoo! Mail address (e.g., user@yahoo.com)
Password: Your Yahoo! Mail password]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23180350 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:08:39 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23177536 delmarvawifi : Cricket does work with Outlook - you just need to use an alternate port other than 25 for outgoing mail.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23177536 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:30 EDT Cricket Broadband: Consumer Fraud in My Opinon http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23176381 austiniter : Cricket told me my broadband card would work seamlessly with my Outlook 2007. They lied, in fact 3 of them at their corporate store lied. It does not work, they block all ports. I tried taking the modem back, however after 3 days sorry-bud, its yours regardless whether we lied or made a mistake. This company is a ripoff, the broadband is cheap, so is their service. Very slow when I've tested it around Austin. Cricket needs to let consumers know they cant use Outlook with Cricket broadband cards. Hope this company goes out of business, trying to reach their customer service is horrific, and they don't care about help you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23176381 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:17:34 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23172141 anon : The 9th and final call to tech support this month and a talk with the supervisor reveals Cricket's tricky and dishonest method of determining bandwidth distribution. It seems that my bandwidth usage isn't being determined by billing cycle (1st to 31st of every month) but by some rollover method. So instead of me getting full bandwidth at the beginning of my billing cycle (like I have pretty much have every month in the past 7 months except the few occasions I've had to call and complain and ask for a reset) it appears that the cycle is *really* how many GB did i download between today, the 12th, and the 12th of last month. She stated that this was in the agreement I signed. So even though I've paid in advance for full bandwidth for October I will receive dialup speeds for the duration of my contract. I asked her to discontinue my service immediately and refund me the balance - she stated that this is impossible. I expected far much more for 40 dollars a month and, as a fairly longtime customer, better treatment too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23172141 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:55:55 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23152826 anon : The insurance may have been in the agreement, but I dont recall signing anything. Be that as it may, my signal strenth is a full three or four bars. I was getting good download speeds ( 50k and better) on the first few days only. Now 20K per sec is the best I can do.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23152826 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:39:47 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23152231 anon : I signed up for Cricket Broadband at the store, took my modem home and it would not work. Message indicated that the software supposedly included in the modem was missing. I took the modem back to the store and they made me pay a $10 fee for an insurnace replacement. I did not know I had insurance. They had signed me up for $5 insurance without my knowledge. It worked, almost as fast as dial up. Do I recommend Cricket. Only if you cant find dial up for less than $40 a month.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23152231 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:27:00 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23143194 anon : Yeah and they really suck bad! It's a shame because it really doesn't have to be this way. I've had them for just over 4 months now. I live in deep south Texas and the first two months were really horrible. At times I was seeing sub-dialup speeds. I mean really, really sub-dialup. I'm talking 3kbits/sec and less! Dial-up is of course 56kbits/sec. It was so slow that I was embarrassed to tell anyone I had Cricket. I actually felt bad for Cricket for minute that a ISP could be so inept. After the two months the speed actually got decent for about 5 weeks. I started seeing speeds between 600kbits/sec to 1.1mbits/sec in the morning up until about noon. After noon speeds would slow to 300-400 kbits/sec. Still tolerable though. About three weeks ago speed slowed to 100kbits/sec and have been locked there every since no matter what time of day it is. That is not broadband or 1xEVDO. What it really is is 1xRTT. I sent them an email asking them what up and of course got no reply. Didn't waste my time calling with all the horror stories about Cricket out there. The fact that they didn't even reply to a paying customer speaks volumes. I use to work telecom (broadband) test and turnup and PC tech support so I would definitely know if the problem were on my end. It's ain't folks. They're brazenly lying to the public with their commercials the speed being locked at 100kbits/sec. It's amazing no state attorney general has picked up on this yet. They apparently ain't doing their job either. I'll be contacting mine though right after I type this. This is my last month with Cricket. Next month i'll give Sprint or Verizion a try.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23143194 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:47:45 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23134890 anon : Cricket broadband is horribly slow! I am currently using it until my cable internet is installed, and I want to pull out my hair. It can barely sustain a remote connection to my desktop, which it is connected to. I'm in the premium coverage area, and I feel like I'm working with broadband! For $40 a month, it is not worth the frustratingly slow speeds! Spend a little more and go with DSL or Cable, and avoid this annoyance of their service.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23134890 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:40:58 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23132873 anon : CricketUserKCMO here again. I've been using this service since February now. My contract runs from the 1st to the end of every month. Was throttled the last 10 days of last month (September). Paid for October's service September 28th at the service center. Still throttled on the 1st of the month. The service center said that my modem was to be reset at midnight on the 1st. No - full bandwidth was supposed to be reset on the 1st - not midnight of the 1st/2nd. She called tech support and said it's been reset. Went home - modem was not reset. Called service center - she called tech support again and said modem was reset. Modem was not reset. Called tech support myself - modem reset for a few hours then went back to 12KBps download speed. Called again on the 3rd - modem was reset - reverted again back to 12KBps download speed. I haven't exceeded 5 GB this month. This is unacceptable service for the 40+ dollars I'm paying. Cricket will never receive another dime from me ever again.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23132873 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:34:55 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23131739 yragha : And does Sprint or for that matter AT&T or Verizon offer anything more robust? From reading some in these very forums you may get from 6-700 down with Cricket to 1000 with those, but is that worth the extra $20?

Not to me it isn't.
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Is Cricket misleading the public? If they had the infrastructure to support the overwhelming requests for mobile access, then sure, Cricket can say this is broadband speed. For now, deal with the slow connections and the blocked ports or go find another mobile wireless that offers true 3G speeds like Sprint ($$).

Thanks, Mark]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23129770 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:35:56 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23129108 anon : I currently have Cricket Broadband. You are not able to run multiple things @ once, or it will be really really, slow. I think my wife bought the phone & the modem for like after rebates, total of $50. OOur monthly bill is like $42. I do not however recommend this for downloading apps. It takes weeks to download one thing. It is access to the internet though for $40 compared to all the other air cards, that are $60 a month. I have not had the opportunity to use these, as I will not pay $60 a month for an air card.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23129108 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:43:29 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23128312 anon : Ok so I got cricket (befor I found this site) so far its been decent thank god. My issue is that I also have TIVO and would like to use the wireless features of tivo to connect to the internet. When I follow the directions from my husband who is deployed with the military atm to making the network connections and internet sharing open Tivo still does not see the connection.

Is it possible to share the internet connection with devices such as tivo? I have seen where people connect thier xboxes so I am thinking yes but Im wondering how... help anyone?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23128312 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:54:09 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23106009 yragha : Love it.

Have used Cricket for two weeks and get 700 down and 500 up. Currently, no dropped connections either.

Very satisfied.
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The key here is an understanding about what Mobile Broadband is and the technology behind it.

It is better than Satellite and Dial-up, far worse than anything else.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23090165 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:25:13 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23089379 radiohead473 : Hello!

I have a cricket modem and service.I was told by the sales-person it would stream movies and such.That it was almost as fast as cable broadband.So,do I have the right to return this for a refund?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23089379 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:47:24 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23068909 judgedredd : Hi, I just posted about using Cricket with Outlook etc,.

I got my service yesterday. I can tell you that apart from the problem with not being able to send emails from my personal domains via Outlook Express, which I just solved using port 587 on the SMTP server port from a post on this site, I can state these things with regards Cricket service:

The broadband is much FASTER than the Sprint Broadband I am giving up (the unlimited 69.99 a month service using a Sierra Wireless USB 598 modem, with their most advanced thechnology)
The cell phone account is BETTER; I am clearer, and others can hear me better.
My usage last month with sprint was just under 5GB, as I used a netmeter before changing over to see what my usage was. So the cap (after which the service slows down, it does NOT stop) is not really a problem for me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23068909 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:13:05 EDT Re: Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23067477 anon :
said by matthewcoleh See Profile :

I calculated mathmatics regarding the 700kps that Cricket boasts and so loudly advertises. If a client of Cricket actually operated at speeds of 700kps; then said client, considering the 5 Gig. limit, would only be allowed to experience the unlimited magical wonders of the internet and downloading for approximately 2 hours!!
Let's assume the data rate is 700 kbps (kilobits per second) and they limit you to 5 GB (gigabytes).

There are 8 bits/byte, however serial communications typically require "stop bits" and "parity bits" for framing and nominal error detection owing to the fact that occassional streams of 0000 or 1111 bits in a row at high speed can sometimes cause your modem to lose its place. The rule-of-thumb is 10 bits/byte sent or received (this also makes the calculation much easier in decimal.)

We'll also assume 1,000 = K, 1,000,000 = M, 1 billion = G (rather than powers of 2), again to keep the arithmetic simple.

So, 700,000 bits per second is equivalent to 70,000 bytes per second. 60 seconds/minute means 4,200,000 bytes per minute (4.2 MB/min). 60 minutes/hour means 252,000,000 bytes per hour (252 MB/hr).

Therefore, at their maximum data rate you'd expect to expend your 5 GB cap after a little less than 20 hours of continuous use.

So to clear up one possible point of confusion, Cricket is not offering 700 KBps (kilobytes per second) and if anyone thinks they are offering KBps then this calculation should clear it up for you. That's not to say you will see anything close to 700 Kbps (kilobits per second), or if you do that it can be sustained for 20 hours, but you should understand how these speeds are calculated so that your expectations are well-grounded.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23067477 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:58:05 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23062821 anon : Cricket Broadband's service really confuses me. On some days the shit acts like it's supposed to act, on others it's damn near impossible to use! Firstly they need to change the name from cricket broadband to cricket dial-up, because the connection is dial-up.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23062821 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:00:01 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23054920 anon : I think a lot of people don't understand how internet speeds work. If you are downloading a file and it says 70kB, that is equal to a 650-700kb line.

And don't listen to "speed tests", they aren't accurate for the most part. Best way to test your speed is download a file from a server you know has the bandwidth available and look at your speed that way.

Using Cricket in chicago area now for a couple of weeks and it's decent for what it is. I get 500k-768k download speeds (60k-70k is what it would show in my browser), and 90-100ms pings. Not bad at all.

And if the service goes bad, just won't pay it any longer since there is no contract. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23054920 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:34:31 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23016217 anon : cricket broadband is not worth 40.58 a month, stay with cable. I have had cicket for 3 months now and it is terrible the modem cost 150.00 dollars to start the rebate for 50.00 was no cash just goods. it is slow and unrealiabe dial-up is faster than this crap. I did the connection speed test and it gave it a 2 1/2 stars out of 5. If you want slow videos streams then this is the one for you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23016217 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:02 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23012159 RockyBB :
said by matthewcoleh See Profile :

Ph.D.
Have you tried it in a different room of your house? Cellular internet tends to work better in a higher elevation and close to a window (reduces interference from stuff between the transmission tower and your aircard). If it's connected to a laptop, do you get better performance outside, or at different locations?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23012159 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:46:12 EDT Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23011650 matthewcoleh : I have cricket broadband service activated and installed on my home computer. All hardware and software appear to be functioning correctly, however I am not downloading anything or anywhere at the advertised 400-700 kbps.

I use BitTorrent, LimeWire, Internet Explorer, and I play StarCraft online. BitTorrent download speeds are 10-40 kbps. LimeWire download speeds are 10-40 kbps. It took almost 2 hours to buffer a video on YouTube. And, the most aggravating and dissappointing of it all: StarCraft servers actually responded to my attempt to connect to their server by stating, "your connection speed is too poor to proceed." StarCraft came out March 31, 1998. It is easily, with over 11 million copies sold, the #1 selling online game of all time. For the past 11 years I have been playing this game online. A couple of days ago, for the first time in eleven years, I was told my connection speed was too poor to play.

Are Cricket connection speeds so poor that they cannot support online gameplay of software that was released eleven years ago? Cicket Broadband just came out and it isn't as capable as internet connections developed over a decade ago? Seriously?

Furthermore, I calculated mathmatics regarding the 700kps that Cricket boasts and so loudly advertises. If a client of Cricket actually operated at speeds of 700kps; then said client, considering the 5 Gig. limit, would only be allowed to experience the unlimited magical wonders of the internet and downloading for approximately 2 hours!!

700kps + 5gig limit = 2hrs of service.

In conclusion, I paid approx. 30 dollars service fee plus approx. 50 dollars hardware fee for a grand total of approx. 85 dollars. My 85 dollars bought me an internet connection service that, when at its best, lasts 2 hours; is too slow to conveniently surf YouTube(the dominant provider of online video in the United States and 4th most visited website after Google, Yahoo, Facebook); and too poor/slow to allow 11 year old, outdated, online gameplay of the largest selling online game StarCraft.

If cricket is swindling 85 dollars from each one its 4.5 million customers, thats 382500000.00 one dollar bills that are sinisterly whispering from George Washington's threadbare mouth, "You've been robbed!"

That might be 382500000 reasons why I cant do anything about it, except type...

Thanks Cricket.

-Matthew Cole Hagen, Ph.D.

P.S. I have yet to experience this mystical assitance Cricket calls "customer support."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23011650 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:21:17 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23010953 Gunslinger01 : Let me put this very bluntly: CRICKET WIRELESS BROADBAND IS GARBAGE, GARBAGE, GARBAGE!! Now I can't tell you why in "tech speak" but I can tell you based on the 3 miserable days I've had service. To start $40 per month is way too much to pay for a service that is slow. They call it "broadband" but this piece of crap isn't anywhere close. If you are a online gamer DO NOT GET THIS PIECE OF CRAP. If you enjoy streaming movies DO NOT GET THIS PIECE OF CRAP. If all you're gonna do is sign on, check your email then sign off then this piece of crap is perfect for you :) I certainly don't think my individule use overloaded their towers but would sooner believe they don't have enough towers in the first place and they shouldn't be offering this broadband joke since they are not equipped to actually handle it. Where I live I have 4-5 bars of signal on my phone yet on this modem I get 2-3. Internet pages load up slow, movies are in constant "Buffering" mode and trying to play any games is a complete waste of time.

I have over 2gigs of ram, nvidia graphics card and NEVER, EVER had these problems when I was on cable or DSL. Would I reccomend this service? I will give a loud HELL NO and I will be cancelling my service as soon as their local office opens tomorrow. Oh yeah, thats another thing.....THERE IS NO TECH SUPPORT HOTLINE!! ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23010953 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:09:38 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23008432 anon : I posted the codes to put your broadband in a digital state which is something even the tear 3 tech support failed to tell me but I got nosy and hit the settings button & there were the options if u look at the 7th page of posts u can see my name lilking or lilking 26 & all directions on how to do this are there. I had tear 3 actually come out to my home but I was dealing with them since end of may till september 1st it got resolved finally but it was the towers having conflict with each other just contact the corporate office it is an escalation department and I had them fix the towers but I also never told them I figured out how to get it to be stable but now I can set it back to automatic in the settings and it works good stays at rev A connection no cdmx but I still leav it on the digital option so check my earlier post & u should have the broadband working fine there was already a reply to my post that it worked for 1 user so try it out & see if it works but I suggest u still have them come out & mess with the towers & check your area so they can fix there end of the problem. I payed for june but have gotten credits for it plus every month since then so from july to now it has been free without them knowing that I got it to work I feel they can afford a few months of income lost by me since I figured it out & it took them so long to fix the problem so hope my earlier post on page 7 helps everyone. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23008432 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:44:15 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22947829 anon : i have it an it runs fine only cost 85$ total to set it up an its plug an play set up i get 230.4 kbps an it is only 42$ a month ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22947829 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:23:33 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22946334 anon : I'm in Las Vegas and have had Cricket for two days now and got what I expected: a slow-but-not-quite-as-bad-as-dial-up experience.

I made sure to buy from a Cricket corporate store (not a reseller) so as to ensure I'd get the best deal on the hardware, and I did. The modem Was $50 (soon to be $0 once I send a $50 rebate) and the activation was $25 plus the first month of service for free. So just under $80 out the door.

Speeds average 0.2-0.5 megabits per second. I tried out Guild Wars (an MMORPG) and averaged about a half a second ping, which worked fine. I can even watch Hulu (if I give it a minute or two to buffer). I subscribe to Napster's streaming music and songs load fine, sometimes stopping to buffer (I just pause a few seconds and let it buffer).

Cricket is replacing my Cox cable internet (which I missed a payment on, then they shut me off, then wanted $150 to turn back on so I just let them go). I was considering Embarq DSL (but I don't want digital phone and don't want anymore contracts). So I settled on Cricket.

I've decided to not try and limit my usage at all for this initial month, and see just how they will or will not throttle me. I think in this last two days I've already downloaded a total of about 2GB so that 5GB soft cap will be reached in no time. I'm connected more than half the day and will be every single day.

So I'm making no effort whatsoever to be frugal in my bandwidth usage or connection time in order to see just how much slower this service can get (as if it wasn't already slow enough).

I'll post again once I've reached (or think I've reached) my 5GB soft cap, and report if anything changes. As for now I'm happy with it and am getting used to a slower Internet: it's actually weaned me off just sitting in front of my PC clicking stuff. I think before I click now and I appreciate pages more. There's a sense of value to each link I click. Okay, now I'm getting a bit too philosophical.

No dropped connections yet, by the way. I get two bars most of the time, sometimes three.

So we'll see how Cricket holds up over this next month as my fulltime Internet for my work (I download about 100mb of files daily), my web browsing (I browse about 500mb of pages a day), my games, streaming shows and music. I'm kind of teetering on the edge of what Cricket does and doesn't want out of their broadband customer.

We'll see if I get throttled. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22946334 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:28:53 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22942332 anon : There is some bad news for those who believe that there is more than one company that can offer this type of service. Earlier today I spoke with every phone company in the area including the largest (Not to name anyone specific), It turns out the "network" cannot offer somthing for a real "on the go" office worker. I need to be able to connect and be connected 40 hours per week. The responce I revieved was "We cannot help you in that type of area". So even though it can be a pain with the modem as well as the costs Which for those wondering it is $150.00 for the modem and the $25.00 activation fee Which normally then your first month of service is free. I refuse to have Cricket as a Cell phone company but as a moble internet handler, This was the only real option I had.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22942332 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:22:13 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22938380 rsrussell : Recently bought the BB modem and started service in Northern Virginia. In fact, I'm now using it on a bus to NYC. Averaging 300-500kbps both up and down, which is good for cellular broadband.

I have seen a number of angry complaints, which isn't too surprising. Cricket is a new and cut-rate network, so they don't have the field experience with their cell sites of a Verizon or Sprint. And CDMA, which they use, is tough to engineer well: the number of subscribers using it will effect signal strength and your data rate, so they need to keep adding cell sites as they get more popular. If they don't, you go elsewhere.

Personally, I'm happy to be spending $20+ per month less than I would on Sprint or VZ or AT&T. Give me a few months to change my mind: at least there's no contract and penalty to stop me from going elsewhere!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22938380 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:18:31 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22937254 anon : It's not worth a penny]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22937254 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:06:02 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22895551 Danga09 : Thank you, and I didn't really search any companies. I had just got my new iMac, and I needed something temporary, so my mother said there a Cricket Broadband place near us, so that's where we went.

But while we were out earlier today we already said if it isn't fixed by Friday then we're looking at other companies. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22895551 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:10:44 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22895350 anon : So I also live in Fort Collins and realized I'm having the same problems as 90% of the people who've responded.

As someone who normally uploads and downloads a lot of big files, this is bull$h!t.

That's 50 something dollars down the drain.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22895350 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:26:51 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22894341 delmarvawifi : Actually that speed is pretty typical for any cellular provider during peak times. It isn't dial-up speed or even close.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22894341 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:25:42 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22891306 RockyBB :
said by Danga09 See Profile :

i would be getting a called, and that someone would probably stop by my house for whatever reason.

So hopefully I can get some help because if not I'm terminating my high speed with Cricket, and looking for another company!!
We're all pulling for you! You let us know when you get that callback and home visit!

Just for us keeping score, of all the various companies you looked at during your vendor research, why did you pick Cricket? What other companies did you look at and what made Cricket stand out compared to them?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22891306 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:54:48 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22889812 Danga09 : Well I've had Cricket for a little over a month, and everything was going fine until last night. It's been moving at dialup speed all day!

Here is how fast it use to go:


Now look at it:


And look at this too:


NOW TELL ME THAT ISN'T DIALUP ON 8/18? That is not high speed.

And for whatever odd reason speedtest keeps showing that my recommended server is Kansas when I live in Alabama! I live nowhere near Kansas.

It's suppose to show Atlanta as my recommended server like it always does, so I'm sure this has something to do with my very slow speeds, but anyway I called Cricket SEVERAL times and couldn't get any help. I finally called back, and was able to get some assistance. The man basically said it should be going at 400 KPS or something like that, and I'm pretty sure 0.10 is NOWHERE near that, but anyway he filled out some form, and said that i would be getting a called, and that someone would probably stop by my house for whatever reason.

So hopefully I can get some help because if not I'm terminating my high speed with Cricket, and looking for another company!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22889812 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:25:22 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22888279 Max Signal : Why not borrow a laptop from someone and try it on the laptop . If it works fine then it is your computer. If not you have ammunition to argue with Cricket with
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www.MaximumSignal.Net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22888279 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:38:46 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22887333 anon : I just got the cricket service it worked great for the first couple of days but ever since then my computer is giving me the limited connection screen and I am getting no internet. I call the cricket help desk and they say I need to contact microsoft or the maker of my computer to fix the issue and its not their internet card. I had to pay 130.00 out the door for the modem for two days worth of service and now nothing. I am getting full signal and still nothing, anyone have any help I am about to use the modem for target practice cause of course they will not refund me anything.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22887333 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:55:36 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22873033 anon : so i got cricket wireless bb the other day. i also have time warner in my apt, but 3 days ago, a bad storm rolled through and knocked that out.

since then, web surfing on time warner is just as bad as cricket's mobile broadband.

pros (so far) -

no contracts
54$ out the door! (modem included, monthly bill will be 42$)

cons -

unpredictable speeds. when i got home, i couldnt get anytihng more than 10kBps. strangely, after midnight, it zoomed up to 65kBps.

right now, im on with cricket mobile bb. web pages are loading fairly quickly, youtube... 5 minute videos take around 7-8 to load. so far, ive loaded 5 vids at once, all were done within 10 minutes total time. not too shabby for what they advertise.

now, i do game alot. mostly WoW. my latency is sporadic on there also. usually , ill sit around 600ms (enough to farm, maybe run a 5man heroic), but it has been as good as 180ms LATE at night (2am central time). im not going to even attempt to raid on it, seeing as my GM would laugh at me and remove me from the raid if i did that.

overall, if you need to web surf, check emails, this is for you.

if you do any type of moderate gaming, id recommend a DSL line w/ at least 1.5megs down / 512k up.

ive already called ATT and set up an install date for next week. im plannin on reselling the modem, still active, for 40$. i figure i can find someone who will want it for that price, so ill get back most of my money and just disconnect the account before the bill date comes around.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22873033 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:51:56 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22847371 anon : I so hate Cricket, I knew I shouldn't have bought em. It was my husband's "brilliant" suggestion. I should've just kept cox. if u guys have a reliable internet connection let me know cuz Cricket is not dependable. I am on a mission to bash Cricket because my bill is paid and I can't even get no one on the phone 4 customer service @ 1-800-cricket. I've been calling for 2 wks literaaly. At 1st I was extatic at 1st but they changed it, slowed it down or somethin cuz it ain't workin like it was at first.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22847371 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:33:03 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22841919 anon : yes, i bought it about a month ago and it is very good. I paid 75 dollars and got 50 of that back in a rebate. and i only pay 40 a month but the coverage area is bad if you travel a lot.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22841919 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:47:38 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22828722 anon : I've had Cricket Wireless for the past several months. I myself moderately despise it, as I cannot do what I really want to do.

Torrenting, gaming, and pretty much anything aside from forum posting is so slow that it's unacceptable for the $40 that is spent for the service.

And I swear, they have actually blocked me from doing certain things.
Yesterday I downloaded the demo to a game I saw on the Steam Store. Every time I played it yesterday it was all nice and smooth. Then today every time I play it, I get disconnected after several seconds.
I'm actually afraid to continue on my EVE Online subscription because of this, for pure fear that my hard earned $15 will go to a total waste.

Also, "broadband" is a complete and utter lie. I've never, EVER reached broadband speeds on this service. I wouldn't call cruising at 60 Kb/s "broadband."

tl;dr: Cricket Wireless is not for you if you're a gamer and it's a bad service for P2P activities.

Really, if I were the OP, I'd get it. You seem to just want it for browsing the web, and that is exactly what Cricket Wireless will let you do.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22828722 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:29:18 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22802405 anon : I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!
Those codes you just shared have saved me a world of grief. I got my cricket broadband just 3 weeks ago and it was working fine in Austin, TX. Then I moved to Lockhart, TX 30 miles away. It kept disconnecting every 60 secs or so and going back and forth between CDMA 1X and EVDO. I went through 3 tech supporters and you were the one who solved my problem.

Working great now and I'm showing zero bars! ( I do have a booster). Also, I've been online with no disconnect now for over and hour.

Thank You!

Rhonda]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22802405 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:49:20 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22799876 anon : i wouldn't put much reliability in it ,its famous for slow downloads,web pages not loading at all,and even more irritating you can't watch any videos ,it's not powerful enough,you basically have a connection a step ahead of dial up ,thats it :o]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22799876 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:05:54 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22799489 anon : Using Cricket Broadband as I type this, I've had no problems to date with the device or the service? But then,....living in Fort Collins, Colorado...the computer mecca of the new silicon valley, they Cricket) have their bases covered here. Tally Ho!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22799489 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:12:39 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22785209 anon : I know there is a code ctrl + D while your cricket broadband connection screen is up this code is for the A600 model it is ##ftm* then hit enter there is an option for manual activation leave that alone there is an option for settings click on that a screen will pop up on the roght side of the pop up screen click the option that says HDR only cause by default it is set to automatic then click OK close that pop up screen by the X in the top right of the pop up window once closed the modem will reset itself after that when you connect it will connect in Rev A and not CDMA 1X which I am assumeing the modem is like a cell phone so CDMA 1X is the analog signal & HDR is the digital but anyway you will always connect at Rev A as you are supposed to and will stay connected this is something Cricket wireless doesn't tell you or in my case the tech support guys are not aware of what retards. I got that code from a tech support for cricket cause there is a field test option that he needed me to check for him cause I have been having issues with them for like 2 mnths due to the fact that the modem as is doesn't connect all the tome just disconnects every few minutes like an old school dial up connection would so me being nosey I wrote down the code & ctrl + D shortcut command & looked and messed with it so as I am still fighting with cricket about the coverage as they say is only in this small part of my apartment complex even though I have 3 towers near by it is just the back section of the complex even though you can see the towers from across the bayopu less than a mile away pretty sad so I complain they get trouble tickets in not sure if anyone has ever had cricket tech support come to there home & actually do something but I did after calling the corporate office and they figured out it was teh upgrade to there tpwers that they did & are kind of fixing it but I am catching them in lies about calling me and so on they even said they left me a voice mail but funny thing is I have no voice mail on my cell phone. Anyway try what I said out see if it works for ya you should have a steady connection I know there is a code for the old modem but I can't find where I wrote that down anyway enjoy hope it works for ya & spread it around you know knowledge is power & now adays if you can get 1 over on these corporate D Heads then why not.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22785209 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:54:15 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22770362 anon : I have criket broadband, and seems to be unlimited use, I pay a little over 40 per month, I live in Vegas. have had it for 8 months now, no problems. my son has it too and he's always on his computer. haven't had any extra fees or anything. I just bought the device and pay my monthy bill. And got a $59 rebate]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22770362 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:04:11 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22747702 anon : Hello I live in southern Illinois and I have been using cricket for just shy of a month now and it isnt perfect, but it seems to be the best option for my location. I am rural and cannot get cable or DSL. My mother lives nearby and has satellite internet and it is way slower.

I 1st tried millenicom's unlimited package but the signal was VERY unreliable. Verizon phones barely work here and I expect that's why, millenicom uses verizon towers I believe. They will tell you that you are in an excellent coverage area but that is meaningless until you test for a signal around your house. I even purchased a cyfre antenna and amp to boost the signal and that did not help at all. When the signal was strong enough for a connection, the download speeds did seem to be faster than with cricket but that was rare.

I also believe cricket uses sprint towers. As I said its a bit slower but I can always connect and using the same antenna I had placed in the attic I can get 2 bars all the time. I havent experienced any throttling of the speeds yet that I am aware of but it is the 3rd week since I have had it and I suspect I am way over the 5 GB soft limit. To give an idea of the speed youtube vids are a bit choppy but most of the time I can stream music without interruption up to 128 kps.

My advice would be if you can get cable or dsl where you live, dont even consider an air card, it is not comparable. But for people in my situation who cannot get cable or DSL broadband, the air card solution is far preferable to satellite. I would advise you to find a friend with a sprint phone and one with verizon and check the signal strengths where you live as this will be the primary determinant of how well the service works. The local cricket guy even offered to come out where I live and test it before I bought it. You also have 3 days to return it and I believe a week with millenicom to mail back the device for a full refund. Then go with millenicom or cricket as they offer the same services without the contract BS of verizon or sprint.

Hope that is useful to someone.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22747702 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:35:23 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22731642 anon : I ordered A600 Cricket Broadband and cannot even install it - I get the blue screen of death and I am operating within all the requirements- Dell XPS Vista, 32-bit NOT 64 and yet, it does not work. I tried it on the other two laptops I own and same blue screen of death - ie, a CRASH.

Any suggestions? Tech support for cricket sucks and no one can help me. They say it is my computer- WHAT? I Tried it on three laptops, 2 of which are NOT mine. Same problem. They are not going to reimburse me either for the activation fee even though, HELLO! I cannot activate it cause I cannot install it. Any help out there? please help!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22731642 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:22:20 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22730820 mattsledge : I've had the Cricket Broadband modem (A600 model) for a couple of days now, and I am generally pleased with it.

I knew going in with some of the negatives by reading this thread, but as of right now things are working smoothly for me. I'm only getting two bars on the modem and the download speed isn't super-duper fast, but that's not a concern for me because I don't download TV shows and the like.

By the way, FTP does work for me. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22730820 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:15:04 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22576209 anon : I purchased a Cricket um100 modem and their wireless internet service at a franchised store to give it a try. I paid 90 dollars out the door.

In the 24 hours that I kept the modem, I tried various things with it. I was satisfied with being able to get a connection in the three counties I visited. I was very satisfied that my text messages were sent and received extremely quickly. I had read reports that cricket texts take forever on their phones. I was able to browse web pages perfectly fine. I was even able to view youtube videos fine. The download for the videos was just a hair faster than the viewing speed so it didn't have to buffer at all, but wasn't nearly as fast as cable. Then I tried online gaming. BZFlag, to be specific. Booting up the game and attempting to get the list of available servers took several minutes, as opposed to the normal 1-3 seconds. I was puzzled by this as the list is purely text. After trying this several dozen times, I concluded that had to be something with regard to ports/firewall. I think the initial requests were being blocked by Cricket and perhaps the game did a work around by obtaining the list through a http connection instead...after several minutes of failure. So at least I was able to eventually get a gaming list. This isn't good though because you typically change to different games several times an hour. Once in the games, I got a relatively good connection which surprised me. My lag and jitter were a bit higher than usual, but acceptable. No packet loss. I was able to play most of the games.
Throughout the trial I used speakeasy's speed test. I typically saw 500-900k download and 800-900 upload. Almost always the upload was higher. This surprises me because most posts on this thread shows uploads around 100k. Anyways, a decent connection as far as I'm concerned. I was pretty happy overall with it, but ultimately I returned it within 24 hours of purchase after deciding that the wait for the gaming list was going to be unacceptable. I returned the modem and got a 100% refund. For what it's worth, he didn't know how to do a refund and had to call for help. He said it was the first refund they had ever done. I had made sure when purchasing that I could return it if i didn't like the service and he said I could within 24 hours. I had mine for 23:53 hours at the time of return.
I had planned on getting cell phone service from them as well. It was not until after I returned the modem that I found this and many other threads describing the horrors of Cricket service. I think I have definitely decided against their cell phone service, but I find myself almost hourly considering getting their wireless internet service again. It seems it would work pretty good, if I could just bring myself to give up my favorite game...
One thing I did not try was FTP and I wish I had. I definitely need FTP for my webhost and couldn't have imagined that FTP would be blocked. The earlier gentleman from chicago said he was unable to FTP which concerns me...

I am curious, is anyone else able to FTP on cricket? Also, am I the oddball who got high upload and lower download speeds??]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22576209 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:27:57 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22557504 anon : This is my second day using cricket wireless broadband, with the UM100C yesterday was quite fast, but today it is very slow, slower than dial up, I may ditch this whole setup if I continue to have speed and connection trouble.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22557504 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:33:23 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22525266 anon : I can't watch youtube videos without a ton of pausing. I know this isn't going to work when I need to watch Heroes and The Office when the seasons start again.

What I'm going to do and ask others to do:

1) Go to cricket store when busy
2) Go to their demo laptop with high speed internet
3) Run bandwidth test
4) Plug your modem in and connect to the net
5) Run bandwidth test
6) Plug their modem back in :)

If there is a consistent and significant discrepancy between the two speeds, we have a serious problem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22525266 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:42:14 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22519628 iansltx : My limited experience with CricKet (tested out a CompCal modem in my area, which included in town, 2 miles outside of twon and on top of a hill 3 miles outside of town). Fortunately I didn't have to pay for the trial of the service.

PROS
1. Cost - $40 per month is less than anyone but TWC charges for broadband out here, though TWC's $40 package, albeit fixed, is MUCh faster.
2. Latency - CricKet runs a 99.9% Level3 network; L3 o most areas, XO to maybe one or two. I'm in an L3 area, so the traffic gets from me to, say, SoftLayer in very few hops. Much less than with Sprint or Verizon. as a result, I've seen 65-90ms to SoftLayer versus 110-130 on Sprint.
3. No contracts - If you don't like the service, discontinue the service and sell the modem. It's that simple.
4. Ease of setup - Plug the modem in, software installation pops up. Install software, restart. start the connection manager, then hit connect. You're online. Signal bars can be seen on the modem as well as onscreen, though the software isn't quite the best (I use a Mac for such things and find that the 3G meter that I suppose is built into OS X is much more unobtrusive and quite functional).
5. Software features - Only one good thing about the software: it has a rather comprehensive connection graph for speed and data transferred. +1 for that.
6. Caps - After you hit 5GB you're throttled a bt, but not totally cut off. This is a very good thing, versus being cut off from the internet entirely. Though whether you'll be able to stand using 10gB of data over the connection is a whole other deal...

CONS
1. Private IP address - You're firewalled, and things don't work too well with CricKet's firewall. Didn't keep track of what IP I ended up resolving to on the public side each time I connected, but I know on the private side it was a different IP on 10.x.x.x every time.
2. Hardware quality - The CompCal modem feels like a toy more than any other broadband modem I've come across. Then again, it's probably because Comp-Cal is a no-name, I don't like no-name handset manufacturers and the modem is green all over and has about five LEDs on it (signal bars, connection status).
3. Software requirements - Windows and OS X have perfectly good connection managers on their own. Sure you can't send text messages over them but I'm not terribly thrilled that anything beyond a driver was needed. If you're going to make me use a connection manager, at least give me a db reading for signal (AT&T does this).
4. Signal strength - I don't think I ever got a full four bars of signal (why not five bars? Because the modem only goes up to four). This was even in the middle of town, in a truck; n big buildings in town so nothing really to block the signal. Outside of town most of my house was a dead spot; had to sit outside in the car to get one or two bars. In town at a local coffee shop two bars was standard fare. Three miles out of town signal was iffy enough to push uploads below 64 kbps.
5. Connection quality - The internet connection just didn't "feel" reliable. Page timeouts, etc. Just not a good experience; when it worked it worked quite well but unreliability isn't nice.
6. Connection speed - They must only have a single T1 to my town, and a single tower that it's feeding to. 1045/400 was my highest score I'm pretty sure, with more typical results being around 600/200 to 700/300. That was when I was trying for a decent signa; low signal areas went to 1x or cut out entirely. At any rate, Sprint and Verizon are a good bit faster. My Sprint phone (HTC Touch pro) can pull 1300/600 kbps (just isn't doing it tonight for some odd reason), and from what I hear data cards are faster than phones.
7. Modem choice - I know what you're thinking "It's just a modem" but CricKet doesn't let resellers get the UTStarCom modems anymore, at least that's what I gather. Even though I have a feeling that the UTS modem might've performed better in my situation. Maybe not but having two modems to choose from is always a nice thing (though with T-Mobile you're limited to one right now from Huawei, a slightly less off-brand provider). Back to ranting about CompCal, they don't make any EvDO device for cricKet other than the modem, and CompCal branding is mostly invisible on their products. as an added bonus, I don't know of one US carrier who uses them other than CricKet.

Bottom lne: CricKet isn't serious about the internet speace yet, at least in my experience. They don't know how to run a decent mobile broadband network. You get what you pay for, or maybe less. Signal strength might be decent if you connected a $70 grid antenna setup to the modem, but then we're talking fixed wireless instead of mobile.

So try cricKet out in your area with a demo card if you can. Don't shell out for the CompCal without testing, that's for sure. Otherwise you may well be in for a world of disappointment when the internet works fine one minute and lousy the next.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22519628 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:12:17 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22503649 RockyBB :
said by riskyteeth :

I have to say it's the slowest and most unreliable connection i've had since dial up, like, ten years ago. It sucks, in a word.
cellular broadband is a moving target. If you try to use it in a lead lined room in a sub basement, you'll get really bad reception. Take the same stuff to a park across the street from the transmission tower, and you'll get much better performance.

Offering only that "it sucks" is not helpful without describing how you were using it, and if you had similar results in multiple places within areas that Cricket said that it would work well.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22503649 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:10:25 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22499097 anon : I'm using Cricket Wireless Broadband now and I have to say it's the slowest and most unreliable connection i've had since dial up, like, ten years ago. It sucks, in a word. As to charges, if you use their cellphones, it's 35 a month, plus taxes, but it costs 190 up front to purchase the modem and open an account, 50 of which you get back in the form of a credit card with a mail-in rebate. I'd suggest you think about something else - cricket, in my experience , is the shadiest bait-and-switch scam out there.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22499097 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:42:23 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479252 RockyBB :
said by angry :

I went back into the store where i bought everything and said "i'm not happy with my service". The same guy that sold me everything said "well we don't guarentee the service just the phone". Then i asked if there was anything they could do since i get no signal in my own home. He said there was nothing he could do.
How many days between when you purchased, and when you went back for adjustment?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479252 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:40:14 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479195 anon : I have Cricket wireless broadband for my laptop and i have their phone service as well. First of all let me say that i recommend against purchasing anything from Cricket. They were all smiles and handshakes when i went in there to buy everything but since the moment i walked out the door they were anything but helpful. I went back into the store where i bought everything and said "i'm not happy with my service". The same guy that sold me everything said "well we don't guarentee the service just the phone". Then i asked if there was anything they could do since i get no signal in my own home. He said there was nothing he could do. I am VERY dissapointed with Cricket. Their wireless internet card signal is horrible as well. You won't be able to game with it or watch youtube videos with it (unless you don't mind waiting 15 minutes to watch a 5 minute video). Also it has caused my firefox browser to crash and now i can't use it at all with Cricket. I am dropping Cricket and never giving them any more of my hard earned money again! And I hate their commercials too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479195 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:28:14 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22432353 chicagkenji : I posted here 4/23/09. I'm still using the modem and still have problems. Here's what I know:

For web use anything HTTP, the broadband service is just fine here in the city of Chicago.

Streaming music via iTunes is just fine.

I absolutely can't use FTP. I've tried various ftp client software toggling between passive and not passive settings, but to no avail. FTP on Cricket's network doesn't work. So, if you have files you need to upload or download to a server Cricket won't work here in Chicago.

Using a terminal I can't SSH into my ISP. Any operation times out.

I've done traceroutes and an odd thing happens between #4 and #5. There's about a one minute freeze while machine #4 goes to machine #5. Once at #5 the traceroute seems to proceed normally.

Here's the beginning of the TR if anyone is interested in seeing where the hangup is:

kenjixxxxx-powerbook:~ Kenji$ traceroute news.ripco.com
traceroute to remote5bge0.ripco.com (74.8.102.115), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 172.30.162.9 (172.30.162.9) 52.206 ms 67.679 ms 45.122 ms
2 172.30.162.1 (172.30.162.1) 50.116 ms 68.582 ms 49.212 ms
3 172.30.175.9 (172.30.175.9) 53.897 ms 54.687 ms 39.612 ms
4 172.30.175.36 (172.30.175.36) 48.396 ms 44.186 ms 57.725 ms
5 63.214.229.99 (63.214.229.99) 48.612 ms 61.392 ms 42.931 ms
6 172.16.2.21 (172.16.2.21) 50.572 ms 47.227 ms 48.931 ms
7 leap-wirele.car4.chicago1.level3.net (4.71.102.130) 46.360 ms 45.721 ms 48.249 ms

So, my guess is Cricket's broadband network is blocking ports.

Can anyone else in Chicago or the surrounding states try using FTP software or a Usenet newsreader client and see if you can connect?

I took the modem in my car and drove 75 miles away and still experienced the same problems.

I also just read their AUP. It can be found on the web here:

»www.mycricket.com/broadband/acceptableuse

Here's what is says:

important customer information

For more information, refer to the Cricket Terms and Conditions of Service or speak with a Sales Representative. Service is subject to the Cricket Terms and Conditions of Service, which you should read before activating service. Plan is not available in all areas. See coverage maps for more details.

Cricket Broadband service may ONLY be used with wireless devices for the following purposes: (i) Internet browsing; (ii) email; and (iii) intranet access (including access to corporate intranets, email, and individual productivity applications like customer relationship management, sales force, and field service automation). Cricket Broadband service MAY NOT be used for any other purpose. Examples of prohibited uses include, without limitation, the following: (i) continuous uploading, downloading or streaming of audio or video programming or games; (ii) server devices or host computer applications, including, but not limited to, Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing; or (iii) as a substitute or backup for private lines or dedicated data connections. This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services and/or redirecting television signals for viewing on laptops is prohibited. A person engaged in prohibited uses, continuously for one hour, could typically use 100 to 200 MBs, or, if engaged in prohibited uses for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week could use more than 5 GBs in a month.

For individual use only and not for resale. We reserve the right to protect our network from harm, which may impact legitimate data flows. We reserve the right to limit throughput or amount of data transferred, and to deny or terminate service, without notice; to anyone we believe is using the Cricket Broadband service in any manner prohibited above or whose usage adversely impacts our network or service levels. Anyone using more than 5 GB per line in a given month is presumed to be using the service in a manner prohibited above, and we reserve the right to limit throughput or immediately terminate the service of any such person without notice. We also reserve the right to terminate service upon expiration of Customer Agreement term.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22432353 Sat, 23 May 2009 07:48:12 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22372508 anon : The 5 gig cap is a "soft cap" meaning you can still download stuff but at dial-up speeds.

also

I usually exceed 5 gig in the first week of the month (2 months now). Last month the brakes were put on during the last week of the month - I've easily downloaded at least 20 gig so far this month and the average speeds bounce between 500 and 800 kbps (although the session information panel says my max receive rate ranges between 800 to 1200 kbps I'm thinking the reason I'm unable to obtain those speeds is a host server issue and not Cricket.

one more thing

It seems that an auto disconnect feature comes into play once your total transfer rate reaches 2048 MB in one session.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22372508 Mon, 11 May 2009 16:16:47 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22363580 anon : Yes you can send text messages to anybody else I think if you click the to: option it will let you put in the number. For every body else that wantes a broadband router compatible look for the CBA250 Cellular Broadband Adapter and that is compatible for both cards I havent tried it but the adaptor website says it is]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22363580 Sat, 09 May 2009 12:50:49 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22363563 anon : At least they dont cut you off or charge extra once you go over your cap like other companies do. Read the limits on the bigger and better known companies.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22363563 Sat, 09 May 2009 12:43:32 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22362968 anon : :mad: i have looked for the answer to this for a long time and i cant find it anywhere... i have cricket broadband and i know i get sms texts from cricket on my broadband's number, but can i text other people from it? will it cost me anything? and can i text other networks like at&t?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22362968 Sat, 09 May 2009 09:37:42 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22351030 delmarvawifi : All providers have a 5 gig cap.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22351030 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:53:55 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22349835 anon : As stated above - Cricket service - both the people side and electronic side are pathetic.

They don't bother telling you about the 5 GIG cap which kills you if you're 20 days into the month and have to wait 10 more days before you can download anything!!

My anti-virus is corrupted and now I can't download a fresh copy for 10 more days!!

Don't know whose wireless I'm buying next, but I will never buy anything from Cricket again.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22349835 Wed, 06 May 2009 17:00:56 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22328617 delmarvawifi : I am a strong believer that perspective is everything.

To my knowledge, Cricket has never advertised their service to be a comparable alternative to DSL or Cable - No mobile broadband is.

However, when comparing Mobile Broadband i.e. Cricket to say a Satellite connection or dial-up connection it is very good.

You can't blame Cricket because you only have two bars of signal. There are many boosters, amps, directional antennas on the market that can boost your signal. But again, if you can get Cable or DSL or Fixed wireless there is no point in using a Cellular connection.

Comparing a Cellular connection to Cable/DSL then saying it sucks... Well that is just stating the obvious and showing one's lack of education. Again, a cellular connection cannot and will not ever compete with anything besides dial-up and Satellite.

Personally, when I had access to our fixed wireless (soon to be again after I build a 150' tower) I still kept a cellular air card for when I travel.

Keep things in perspective. It isn't the provider's fault when you have bad speeds because you have bad signal. It isn't the provider's fault when you exceed your monthly Cap and your speed is throttled. That being said, I agree, Cricket should be transparent about Caps. Their advertising is deceitful at best.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22328617 Sat, 02 May 2009 10:31:41 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22325357 anon : Cricket's tv advertisements are very deceitful about the price. It cost me $150 dollars just to get out the door with the modem. They also lie about the first month being free. The first month is not free, the second month is. The signal? I have never had 4/4 bars. I'm lucky to get 3 bars and often have just 2. What can you do with 2 bars? Turn off you computer and go do something else. Paying $35-$40 dollars a month for this service is like flushing money down the toilet. May I suggest a visit to your local library?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22325357 Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:22 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22325324 anon : Shortly after posting I received an automated email from Cricket referring me to a 1-800 number. After pressing "3" several times I was talking with Marylin who was very helpful and resolved the issue at hand.



Much better results than my previous post.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22325324 Fri, 01 May 2009 15:47:39 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22325136 anon : Okay - I finally finished downloading a 295 meg file. 8 hours it took. I deleted my cookies, online/offline cache, temp, temp internet files, turned off computer, pulled the modem, turned on the computer, uninstalled software, reinstalled software, got back online started to download a 246 meg file and was informed that it would be done in 7 and a half hours. Refreshed network and tried again. Same message. Went to Cricket tech support page and sent them this:

"My connection speed is sub par. These are the stats according to www.speedtest.net: ping 225/ms--Download 0.07 Mb/s--Upload 0.13 Mb/s. This is unacceptable. I understand that your "unlimited" service actually has a soft cap (limit) of 5GB transfer and I may have gone over that during the last billing cycle. I expected that my rates of transfer to increase substantially on the 1st of the month; they have not increased.

You may assist me by fixing the problem.

Please note that our correspondence will be posted at »Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband?

I am online now and can be reached through my email or through SMS"

Stay tuned.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22325136 Fri, 01 May 2009 15:11:58 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22322906 anon : I was very satisfied when I first started using the service. While there was a bit of lag that made gaming a bit less pleasant than it should be, I could download 100 meg files in less than half an hour. Disconnects would occur but I began disconnecting/reconnecting between downloads and that seemed to take care of that problem.

It now takes between 90 minutes to 2 hours to download 100 meg files. To be fair(?) I've surpassed my limit of 5 gigs on their "unlimited broadband" plan. Nevertheless.

I'm not savvy enough to post the speedtest.net image onto this forum but my results from the recommended server are: ping 200ms, download 0.08 Mb/s, upload 0.11 Mb/s.

My bill was due today and I payed at the dealership yesterday. We will see if the brakes are taken off and, if not, how customer service deals with this issue. Stay tuned.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22322906 Fri, 01 May 2009 07:57:18 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22322373 anon : I had Cricket Wireless "Broadband" from March 1 to April 25 2009. Yeah there's a reason why I didn't have it for very long. First off, I almost never got anything above 2 bars. I kept being kicked off the internet even though I was still connected to cricket. (Yeah, I was connected to Cricket, but not the Internet. This problem happened A LOT) The piece of shit kept going "Dormant" on me at the most inconvenient times and Firefox kept crashing on me while I used Cricket. Firefox crashed about 2-4 times a DAY when I was connected to it via Cricket and I experienced dial-up speeds on IE.

YouTube was horrible with Cricket as it would usually take me 15 minutes to watch a 5 minute video and uploading pics to Photobucket would take 5 times as long as they should. I constantly lost signal and I had many failed connection attempts because "the remote computer failed to respond" meaning I had to unplug the damn thing and then plug it back in which meant I had to wait EVEN MORE for the modem to power on. Getting kicked off of Firefox or the connection going 'dormant' often meant having to disconnect and then re-connect and I would sometimes repeat this process just 10-20 minutes later because it went 'dormant' again.

As for the rebate, they tell you that you have to wait 60 days to get it, but what they don't tell you is that you have to have the service for 45 days to even GET the rebate and then you have to wait 60 days FROM THE END OF THE FIRST 45 DAYS to have the rebate. In other words, you're looking at no rebate for a minimum of 105 days. I had it for nearly 60 days and it was horrible. After weeks of frustration, I ditched Cricket and bought a wireless router and it works A LOT BETTER. The Wireless router is up to 3 times faster than Cricket and I can watch YouTube as if I was using cable internet.

Overall, Cricket is a decent phone provider but a HORRIBLE Internet provider. I would definitely NOT recommend getting this service, it's not worth the hassle as speeds are around 100K (Faster than 56K, but much slower than cable).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22322373 Fri, 01 May 2009 01:11:13 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22306947 anon : Cricket: Where "unlimited" means not.

Cricket: Dialup speed for broadband prices.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22306947 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:18:12 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22293695 delmarvawifi : "UNLESS U craped out with the other companys as i did."

Now that is just funny. Lets crap on Cricket because we've already dicked over the other companies.

Geeze.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22293695 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:32:41 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22293109 anon : ok well its me again and now im pissed!!!! I talked to costumer service 3 times and they hung up on my 3 times!! i asked if there was a 5 gig cap and they say yes.. i said i have the advertisement and my contract that says UNLIMITED internet access for $35 with the phone. so now my speed completely suck. i can get lucky to get a speed test to actually even start. bottom line, they are no better than sprint or verizon or any other company in the usa. @*#% cricket. They dont even have a way to check to see if you past the 5 gig cap so how can they lower your bandwidth? lol ridicules. PEOPLE DONT WASTE YOUR TIME UNLESS U craped out with the other companys as i did. uh if only the real office was here lol... ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22293109 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:30:59 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22289179 anon : I find this wireless connection is a ok substitue for the real thing. Being a student i can always be on the go and do my work wherther im at home, work, or on the road doing my school work. The only downside to it ino....is that if ur having to download anything from the web, u might as well forget it, might as well be dial-up....good luck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22289179 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:34:06 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22286096 chicagkenji : I'm in Chicago using the A600 modem. I'm having some problems. In looking into the problem I've done some tracerouting. I'm seeing probs.

Is anyone out there who is using the Cricket service willing to try a few things and tell us what you see?

I went to a corporate store here in chicago and used their machine and their broadband modem and replicated the problems I'm having with my hardware so I know it's not my machine or modem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22286096 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:47:36 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22259672 rfwins : just got my cricket B.B could not be happier WAY better
then the old dail up (yes i am way out) magic jack works like a champ!!! not sure why cricket is getting knocked so bad working Great here... also i only get 3 bars of signal

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22259672 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:21:40 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22251670 anon : So, we got Cricket BB wireless 3 days ago, and I know I should really give it more time before making a final judgement on it. That said, my initial assessment is that I was conned into buying something not right for me. I dont use the internet for much. I do play world of warcraft 4-20 hours a day (yeah, no life) CWBB is NOT for this. When I was able to get through to "tech support" I was told I need to move my computer to a different part of my house to get a better signal. wtf? We did'nt pay exorbident amounts like some of u did, as we are used to dealing with them ripping us off on our son's phone. I must admit that it does seem faster than our previous connection (dial-up) but at least with dial up there was 100% signal. Bottom line: I got thier BB for gaming and Im unable to game, only able to complain about it on this forum. God I miss my game... ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22251670 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:21:09 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22241048 anon :

lol and almost always my upload and download are close to the same. only 2 bars out of 4 for signal. it did go up to 600 but yea.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22241048 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:06:29 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22241021 anon : well its been a while now and have to agree with some that its an ok service. I think what it was is they where still developing and still are so you are gonna get bugs here and there. I also have the samsung messenger (the green one) and I have had some problems with that as well. I think for the price its pretty decent. Also my first day of using the cricket a600/evdo I downloaded 1.5g and I KNOW I am way over this so called cap but I haven't seen any changes in speed connection nothing. So I agree with this other dude that the cap is just a scare tactic, just to keep people from using to much bandwidth. And p2p does work but of course not as good as dsl or cable.Read the fine print, it does say some scary things about watch what you do and say. So uh yea if you on the grind be careful and if you on the net watch what you look at and do. I also heard somewhere that they may report to the p2p police??? whatever... Mabey another scare. over all so far 7.5/10 dialup 1/10 lol dsl 7/10 cable 9/10 and the optical 12/10 lol. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22241021 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:01:47 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22239319 Pghwireman : Well it's been 2 billing periods for my broadband service. I can,t say that I have had any issues so far. It seems like they tweaked the network here in the Pittsburgh market as I'm getting reliable service and 600 t 700 KBS on a regular basis.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22239319 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:07:55 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22217198 anon : So check it people's i have been using this shit for 4 months now no download cap they are just trying to scare ya and p2p does work despite what this claims are ya speed kinda slow but hell all i can get is Dial up so it's cool ok but i want to do it 2x with 2 modem things like the old shotgun 128 dial up is this possible i think so it uses regular DUN 2 connect i don't use there tool to connect]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22217198 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:49:42 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22217052 anon : i think it has something to with your pc or the data cable the card came with. it happends to me alot then i have to reset the computer then it seems to work. problem is that the card isnt terminating the connection completely and the pc knows its still connected and its not gona do 2 connections at once. like i said happends all the time 2 me. i do have cricket. no signal or crap signal half the time so yea i dont blame you. if you have other usb ports i suggest trying them first before returning it. also im in the process of making a wireless signal booster out of a coffee can lol so i will let you know if it works!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22217052 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:19:29 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22189857 anon : :mad:my broad band keeps disconnecting and have no viruses so don't no what the problem is i cant get no help from cricket so next month iam changing my services the stupid thing just disconnected no i hat cricket they suck i have a poor signal or sometimes no signal iam very dissatisfied]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22189857 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:45:39 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22189837 anon : lol well iv had cricket for about a week now. the a600 model. so far its ok i guess, i have to stick the stupid thing out the window just 2 get 1-3 bars. downloads suck!!! i downloaded 1.5g from a p2p client and it toke 23 hours and some change. this is way better than dial-up, heck anything is better now a days. i have had the verizon card and this is much better, i have had the sprint 1 and that one was nice, good speed and i had a network with my ps3 so that was nice. its been about 3 days still trying to find a way to share the network. lots of work, not for begginers. yes p2p does work with lots of bull and changing settings pc/a600. i guess its ok now and then, i get usually 600kb downloads but it jumps so damn bad it pisses me off. it will go from 900kb/sec to 3kb/sec in well about a second lol. i guess if you screwed yourself with everyone else as i did this is an ok sub. then sometimes it will say dormant and sit and do not a damn thing for like 5 min then come back. sometimes 10 sec. if varies so much!!!!!!!! but again way better then dail-up, been there like 8 years ago, yuck!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22189837 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:39:26 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22160119 anon : Got a question for those using Cricket. Currently I am on dial-up and am ready to be rid of this scourge. I saw an advertisement for Cricket, which recently moved into my hometown. For the price, it's not bad 40/mo. vs. 60/mo for Alltel. There has been mixed reviews of the company but is the extra aggravation and price worth it to ditch dial-up?

Also, reviewing their coverage map, I'm not sure if I am in their coverage area or not. It seems too close to call. If I am not, is it still possible to use it without some kind of roaming charges?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22160119 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:07:26 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22159665 anon : Cricket usb works great in our Houston,Tx market. The only thing I dont like is they do block ports which some programs need. Other than that, even Majic Jack works quite well with it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22159665 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:40:36 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22143639 anon : Do not get cricket service. the customer service is horrible and you get nothign but a run around.. which culminated in me loosing a 50 dollar rebate because of poor information

the service cuts out a lot.. so the money your saving is inconsequencial when your cut off all the time..

i recomend satying away from thsi company.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22143639 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:10:22 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22074402 anon : i've had cricket wireless for about 2 weeks now. it is oh so very slow. i was piggy backing off other people's wireless before and was able to get more use out of the internet. if you want cricket broadband for anthing tht has to do with uploading or downloading then forget it! it is absolutely worthless!!! in my opinion it was a waste of money. they can have their broadband back and shove it were the sun don't shine!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22074402 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:12:14 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22069664 anon : they are dumb it does not work but only with computers period! i do tech support fo the cricket bb and there new modem has somany flawes that inless you work for nasa you wont be able to use it there service sucks!!!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22069664 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:43:13 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22057251 anon : can you play online ps3 with this thing? ive got one and ive been trying to find this out for weeks...one person told me i need a router but then i went to best buy yesterday and they said i didnt need one. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22057251 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:49:12 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22049960 anon : If you are thinking about using Cricket, I would think twice about it. I have had cricket wireless and the service was horrific. I also bought the cricket broadband modem and I was never able to stay connected. I have to say the experience was very bad. I do not recommend it at all. The broadband modem you have a 3 day warranty, can you believe that. I was able to stay connected to the internet after the 5 or 6 day. When I complained I never really got any help in correcting the issue in order to stay on. I spent so much time trying to get on then staying online. When I complained they never gave me my money back. The wireless was not so good at all. I thought that going with the company was smart because it being cheap but cheap isn't always the best. Word to the wise. If you plan on buying from them I would go with another well known carrier. Cricket is very hard to speak to customer service and the service is very horrible. I think it is best to go with another carrier other then cricket. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22049960 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:39:16 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22014663 Pghwireman : I received the booster antenna today. It has done what I wanted it to do which is provide more constant signal strength. I should qualify this say it has done that here at my home. Signal strength at home would vary from 1 to 3 bars. Using the booster antenna I now have 3 full bars (90%) signal strength constantly.

Ironically my speeds have dropped from what I posted without using the booster. It was about 4:30 PM today when I last tested, the test in my previous post was done on a Saturday morning. Being in the Prime time traffic slot even with a good stable signal here are my results



Quite a difference from the 700 + that I posted earlier!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22014663 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:49:11 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21994071 Pghwireman : I purchased the same booster antenna as Tim did from a vendor on eBay. I haven't received it yet but hoping that it will boost the signal strength in the building I mentioned in my previous post. It should arrive early this week - I'll post a follow up as to how well it works or doesn't work.
Signal strength in the building is terrible! It varies from 1 to 3 bars but mostly stays at 1 bar. My goal is that the booster increases the signal & keeps it constant at 3 bars which is close to 70% signal strength. Speeds at the low signal level are in the 170 to 200 kbs range.

Search item # 220306979473 $39.95 + free Priority Mail shipping. PCantenna is the vendor.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21994071 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:57:31 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21984077 TimfromPgh : "where did you find a signal booster for your Cricket modem??? Any info would be helpfull!"

Maybe I can help. I bought this booster which increased my signal level about 20%.

»3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=···_id=1056]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21984077 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:26:17 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21978803 anon : Pghwireman, where did you find a signal booster for your Cricket modem??? Any info would be helpfull!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21978803 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:13:22 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21955780 Pghwireman : I needed a wireless broadband connection for a project in the Pittsburgh area that will last the next six months. The object was to get a faster than dial up connection to the job foreman.

Although Verizon has a month to month plan they murder you with the purchase of a modem up front. I didn't want to sign a 1 year contract for only 6 months of use and face ETF so I opted for the service from Cricket.

The service was activated Friday (2/20)and the speed results on the job were only in the 200 to 300 Kbs range in the building that my company is working in. We are getting a weak signal mostly one bar but occasionally 2 bars max.

The building is built like a fortress with multiple levels,few windows & either block or concrete walls. The owner had a repeater antennas installed for Verizon and ATT to enhance cell service within the building. Unfortunately the antennas are tuned to those carriers and does nothing to enhance the Cricket signal

I did some research and a found booster antenna for the Cricket modem but I'm reluctant to purchase one due to the construction of the building. I'm not certain that the signal can be boosted because of the building construction. Maybe somebody here can help me out with that decision.

The foreman at the job site needs to send/receive emails maybe 40% with CAD drawings, spreadsheets or PDF attachments most which are less that 1 meg. On the job 200-300Kbs is much better than dialup where the connection speed was only 45kbs.

I took the modem home and installed it on my desktop and played around at speedtest.net today to see what kind of speed I could get out this service. I can only get 2 full bars of reception at home but the control panel for the modem says that I'm connected at anywhere from 57% to 67% signal strength. Even with marginal reception I was surprised at the speeds I was getting. I selected Frederick, MD as my test site and got as high as 747 Kbs up 159 down and as low as 313 Kbs up 121 down over a range of 4 to 5 tests. The latency seems poor overall in the 280 to 550 ms range. Overall, it appears that the speeds are in the DSL range.

I don't know what speeds Verizon or Sprint users typically get but for only using this service for a day or so with limited reception it seems like it will work. The customer's facility manager uses Verizon wireless in the building. We tested his speed and found it to be in the 350 to 400 kbs range utilizing the antenna system within the building. Even with not so great reception the Cricket solution isn't too far behind!

I don't think I would cancel my cable service and switch to Cricket for home use but for the application as stated above it seems to provide a decent service at a reasonable cost. As always - YMMV

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21955780 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:15:02 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21928134 anon : forget about tier 2 you won't get responce but u might in about 2 months ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21928134 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:21:46 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21923658 anon : 504 kbit/sec

0.19s latency
16.415s d/l time.

40 miles north of St.Louis MO area

Typically 300-500k

35 is way slow.Do you have a good signal?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21923658 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:01:55 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21922634 anon : This is not what I expected . . . 35k/s? I think I got ripped off. Here in Rochester, NY. I actually think they prey on the disenfranchised. This is a tad bit better than dial-up. I wish to have what you guys are having as throughput]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21922634 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:36:57 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21915128 JANEEDISTURB : Thank you all for replying and sharing the useful
link to that article, Freds1. kaj58, you were right.
I asked for the Supervisor. She said, "We're having
issues because their towers were having an interference
with other towers (aha! The 'piggybacking'! Now wouldn't
that be like P2P, lol! Only like if we were to kinda
backdoor use someone's internet connection? Hmmm)"

So, the Supervisor and the associate apologized all
over the place. Said they'd put up an 'automatic
ticket, which may take up to 6 days for someone to
call me. And that I'd also get reimbursed for the
time I was having the issues. Until I received a call,
I would not be able to be reimbursed.

Now I am going a little further, because I am not paying
(which my next bill would be due to be paid by then)
for service I am not getting. Cheap or no cheap. It
is still money being put out. And these days, who
really wants to just throw any amount of $ out for a
rip off, and false advertisement?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21915128 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:07:02 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21912986 anon : wow, just found this thread on cricket 5G cap.
»Why Are ISPs Still Advertising Limited Services As Unlimited?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21912986 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:45:58 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21912662 Jim_in_VA : Cricket does not own their own towers. You are correct.
--
... need help? »evdo-tips.com/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21912662 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:43:25 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21912448 anon : No secrets.
I too am having constant disconnects.The service was good till about a month ago.They said was the whole St.Louis area.Was worthless for about a weak,then all seemed fine.Now it's back to disconnecting all the time.
As far as the 5G cap,I believe all wireless providers have it.They throttle your speed if you go over,but you will still have service.That's how they ALL can get away with saying unlimited.

Does anybody know if cricket has their own towers?
I'm thinking, their piggybacking on someone.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21912448 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:12:27 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21911260 anon : yes don't be fooled i work tech support for cricket bb this service is ok if you can get a signal but dont rely on your tower to stay working as texas has been without/intermittent service since nov 08 and if we submitt a trouble ticket cause we can't figuer out prob you may just throw it in the trash cause they will never call you back we just feed customers what they want to hear just to keep them paying and if you buy device from a dealer well you would be better off just giving you money away to a stanger walking down the street because NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REaSON!! ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21911260 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:06:01 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909603 JANEEDISTURB :
said by Mr H Sasquatch :

Love it! High speed could not be any better where I'm at. I live in the mountains 40 miles N.W. of Spokane and I can finaly have the world at my finger tips for a reasonable fee. $125 out the door got me two months and the modem. Once a month I hand them a couple of twentys. I've done 5 gigs a day for month straight and never had a problem.

Sasquatch
And where do you live?
You must of been a lucky one, or
(sorry but), from the sound of your
reply here, lol....are you a
Cricket Employee, or were you the
voice on the commercial?

jk]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909603 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:27:18 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909600 JANEEDISTURB :
said by kaj58t :

yes i am a cricket broadband tech and yes it is $40 + 25 act
the modem is 134 out the door first month free mail in rebate of $50 and yes no disconnect fee but make sure you buy from full cricket store or you will get screwed guaranteed oh and it sucks its 300 - 700kbps thats when you can get a signal or get it to even install or work right upload speed of 125kbps top
kaj58t,
The lady on the phone, when I was oredering
told me I could not get this device directly
from the stores they have.

She also told me that the connection was
guaranteed. And specified the OS reccommendations.
I qualified for all she had asked, and the
questions I had asked. I had to make her slow down, and
repeat some things I knew she was reading from a
script, just to mirror what she was saying, so
I could get a clear understanding.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909600 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:24:29 EDT Re: "remove hardware safely" http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909595 JANEEDISTURB : freds1, no. I had to figure out
winging it, that Disconnect WAN Device
is something we click on to turn
it off, after disconnecting. So, if you
are unable to find the little USB Icon on the
bottom left of System Tray, you can always click on
MY COMPUTER, and see the Cricket wireless there.
Disconnect from there. It is just as safe.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909595 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:21:19 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909593 JANEEDISTURB : Right on my friend! Right on!
That is exactly what I am going to
do, right after I call them in the a.m.
If they give me probs....I will ask to
be directed to someone in charge, if they
do not help me...I will ask to speak with
their supervisor. Then I will demand to
speak with a CEO of their company! That's when
I am going to contact 2 and tell them the
situation. BBB will be notified indeed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909593 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:19:16 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909588 JANEEDISTURB : freds1, I am in St. Louis as well. And like everyone else is
saying, and I agree...THEY SUCK! What's your secret?
Please share! :huh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909588 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:15:06 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909581 JANEEDISTURB : I can tell you this much, I am HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED with this
alleged service. They never mentioned to me any limited
usage.

At first I called to simply inquire. They say there is
no deposit. LIES! I had to pay 119.89 to even get the
thing. And no sooner, less than a week of getting the
device, they are reminding me of my next payment. I
know there are no contracts. I think that may be their
loophole as to get away with screwing their potential
customers.

Nonetheless, they're a business. And with every business
comes a liability. If you advertise "UNLIMITED SERVICE",
then the customer expects to be paying for just that!

I needed it not just for home use, but work as well. Which
requires far more than 5G usage on the net. They NEVER
mentioned this, and are very unclear with the whole hype
they've so blatantly misled people to believe they were
paying for.

I am calling the BBB. Because this is ridiculous. It is
NOT AT ALL like wireless, rather a damn dial-up connection.
I've had this thing for less than a week, and have been
disconnected more than actual dialup would have. Not to
mention, the Panel always says I am Dormant. When it is
obvious there is constant activity. So I'd have to see
if refreshing the Network would help. Barely. It just
goes right back to insisting I am Dormant.

Also, they do NOT have a 24 hr. Tech Support. They should
seeing as how the lot of us are using the internet at
various hours of the day/night.

In short, the price is NOT worth the hassle. They are new
yes. But I can guarantee they're business will not last
in competition, as bad as their services are.

A friend of mine had many issues with a wireless plan he
had cell wise, and had to wait for a little over a
month to even get his reimbursement.

When you do get through to anyone, they act as if they
do not really know what to do. They do not seem trained
enough to even be Tech support. They said if I was not
satisfied, I could get a full refund within 14 days.
But the account plan on their site, does NOT state this,
nor do their figures add up to what I had recorded upon
ordering.

I am sick and tired of having to see people get screwed, as
well as being screwed myself. I will be calling these fools
first thing. And then return here, to share my experience.

I wish I would of come across this thread beforehand.
Then I would of thought twice before dealing with their
incompetence.

They say "Buyer Beware", but that does not excuse them
from false advertisement. And should not mean they are
able to screw people over.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21909581 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:08:14 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21738179 anon : I live in Glenpool Oklahoma which is 30mi. south of Tulsa. I have the PC express card on my new Acer laptop. I love it I can watch movies online no problem. I have reached speeds at 1.8 mb down. the only weird thing is if your streaming videos you get great download speed, but if you actually download say a 100Mb file the connection speed will drop to like 80Kb. So surfing and streaming videos Great! Downloading files and such not so great but that is what my Wifi at home is for. And I'm sure Cricket is responsible for that! This is an excellent item for people on the go like me that just has to bring the internet with them (like at my super boring job lol) For standalone service at home i would get cable and a wireless router.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21738179 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:29:24 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21734250 scottae316 : I have had this since it was avaiable in Pittsburgh. It works well, I have yet to not find signal. For $35.00 a month (phone customer also) it is great. If you travel the nation, this is not for you, but for local use it can not be beat. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21734250 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:58:37 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21734226 scottae316 : You posted this same one on another board. First NOONE has speed equal to cable/dsl. Second, read all the information about returns. Most carriers have same restrictions.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21734226 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:53:59 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21662818 anon : i just picked up the cricket wireless today ans so far, so good. it's about the same speed i recieved from the crappy cable internet service that i recently cancelled.
so far the highest rate of service for me is.
973.6 kbps receiving and 381.5 kbps sending

does anyone here know if cricket has a news server address, though. so far, that is my only complaint.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21662818 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:56:06 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21657351 Macadoo : Cant use the card for a webserver. This is a bummer as i had hoped to connect to a ip camera watching a construction site.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21657351 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:20:15 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21646843 TimfromPgh : I live near Pittsburgh and have been using Cricket wireless broadband for one week now. So far, it has worked very well for me. It is a huge improvement from dialup. I get 500 kbps download speed during the days and 300 - 500 kbps download speed in the evening. My signal strength is less than 100% (3 or 4 bars out of 5). The service has been flawless thus far. The $40/month with no contract attracted me to the service.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21646843 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:50:49 EDT It is what it is http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21641373 anon : A friend of mine has Cricket and no it doesn't come close to things like Broadband or DSL. However, my parents live about 45 miles east of OKC and they don't have access to anything but dial-up. Other than spending hundreds of dollars on a satellite system, which they absolutely cannot afford, this is a good option for them.
So, yes if you live in an area that has DSL and such this is probably not a good option for you but for places that don't have access to the good life this is a great option. My parents are in their 70's and think they have the fastest internet out there. They don't know what file sharing or torrent is. All they like is Oprah and This Old House type sites so it's a win win situation in my opinion.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21641373 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:26:36 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21626875 anon : Love it! High speed could not be any better where I'm at. I live in the mountains 40 miles N.W. of Spokane and I can finaly have the world at my finger tips for a reasonable fee. $125 out the door got me two months and the modem. Once a month I hand them a couple of twentys. I've done 5 gigs a day for month straight and never had a problem.

Sasquatch]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21626875 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:05:28 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21596224 anon : Terrible. Very slow (243.1kbps in speedtest). Technical help is crappy. Too much trouble to activate/get rebates/etc. Instructions don't match actual setup. They don't reveal $35 restocking fee. DSL is faster,worth an extra few $$.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21596224 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:04:35 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558457 anon : NO, changing ISPs will NOT change your IP address. Here's why:

All ISPs are mandated by the FCAA to allow roaming addresses, just like when you change your cell provider to a new carrier and you have the option to retain your old mobile #.
Any large provide like Sprint of Verizon will allow you to keep the same IP address you had on AOL. This doesn't confuse border routers or the root DNS servers at all.

In other words, yes of course your IP will change! WTF is wrong with you?!?

"Hey, I'm moving from Toledo to Miami...can I keep my area code?"



]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558457 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:45:50 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21545959 anon : yes i am a cricket broadband tech and yes it is $40 + 25 act
the modem is 134 out the door first month free mail in rebate of $50 and yes no disconnect fee but make sure you buy from full cricket store or you will get screwed guaranteed oh and it sucks its 300 - 700kbps thats when you can get a signal or get it to even install or work right upload speed of 125kbps top]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21545959 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:12:02 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21536477 anon : Okay, so it/s not the fastest service. Your paying a lot less for it. And the 5GB limit, they all have them. Atleast Cricket wont charge you for going over. I moved into a home without cable and DSL is too much for what they provide here. I/m just thrilled to have internet again, and for cheap. Dial-Up is half as much, and not nearly as convenient. Want faster times and less bandwidth for your web searches? Use Lynx web browser.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21536477 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:52:21 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21532669 anon : Stick with Cable. Cricket is Sloooooow!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21532669 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:02:19 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21521336 Max Signal : No . Their devices are CDMA . GSM devices take SIM cards
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www.MaximumSignal.Net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21521336 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:37:18 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21519288 jgombos : Does Cricket use sim chips?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21519288 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:04:22 EDT "remove hardware safely" http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21500146 anon : "remove hardware safely"

I too don't get the icon,but under the options in the cricket quick connect is a power off wan device.
Is what I use. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21500146 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:43:45 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21488491 DaffysTrike : :mad:CRICKET IS A BUNCH OF THIEVES!!! :mad:

Had this piece of junk for 3 weeks, told I could get a full refund if I cancel under 30 days if not satisfied. Not told of any "cap" and that I was in an excellent signal area. Couldn't be farther from the truth.

Ridiculously slow, almost dial-up half the time. Pages would close on their own. Connection would drop suddenly. Instructions specified you MUST click "remove hardware safely" icon in system tray prior to unplugging unit. Icon never appeared. Time to call support already.

Knew I was in trouble when tech answered and spoke in some middle eastern accent that was gibberish to me. :huh: Explained my situation. Lo-o-o-ng periods of silence while she was looking up an explanation. Repeatedly told I had to go to "Dacumas"...Where? Who? What the......? Do you mean 'Documents'? There are no settings in documents! Enunciate clearly please! Asked to speak to someone I could understand and knew what they were doing. Hung up on me!

Final straw...camel's back broken...

Called today to cancel the account, well within the 30 days. Was told there would be money deducted if over a certain amount of minutes used. Hidden fee.

Confirmation email then informed me there would be a $35 restocking fee, never told about that at sign up. Full refund my butt. Another hidden fee. Anymore surprises Cricket?

Thought it was a good time to save a couple of bucks, and tried these morons after my Millenicom (Sprint) card went dead due to some contract problem. :huh:Which bummed me out. Millenicom is a 100% USA based business, techs that speak clear and precise English, great speed connections. Lesson learned! Went back to Millenicom.com and now have a Verizon based unit that is 3 to 4 times faster :D than Cricket. True you get what you pay for.

MORAL: LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE AND DO NOT GO CRICKET!!!

NEXT STOP-BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21488491 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:51:16 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21487954 anon : I've had it for about 6 months and has been decent.
Running cradlepoint 1000,2 computers + xbox 360
around 400-480 down 100 up.
St.Louis went down last week,spent 1.5 hours on hold to find out it was them and not me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21487954 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:19:44 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21459973 linkstarr : GreaT review i lmao 2 thumbs up ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21459973 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:24 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21458737 anon : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21458737 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:18 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21458285 anon : 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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21458285 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:00:55 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21436442 anon : 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...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21436442 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:16:50 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21425602 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21425602 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:11:48 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21391030 anon : 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. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21391030 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:56:59 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21383075 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21383075 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:41:24 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21382249 anon : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21382249 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:18:30 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21371171 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21371171 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:25:35 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21367107 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21367107 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:23:41 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366669 anon : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366669 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:09:52 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366522 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366522 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:19:15 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21347864 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21347864 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:25:40 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21342992 anon : 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 :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21342992 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:16:00 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21341681 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21341681 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:27:23 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21326441 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21326441 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:06:57 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21306496 anon : IF YOUR TRYING TO GET CRICKET BROADBAND JUST JUST FORGET ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT REALLY SUCKS :mad: 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 :(

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21306496 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:40:26 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21300758 anon : 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... ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21300758 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:12:15 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21300211 anon : 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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21300211 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:39:36 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21286907 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21286907 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:14:42 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21281598 anon : ------------------------------------------------------
* Jullom asked (Can someone tell me if using a Cricket broadband USB modem would change my IP address?)

nawww ALL isp's use the same ip range..LOL
In other words.. YES, of course, a different isp means a different ip address. duhhrrr... lol....
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* Dan knugg - says no ftp no online gaming....
That means no running your own ftp SERVER or a game SERVER.

My FTP software connected just fine to my online web host.
My online shooting game connected just fine...
My encrypted p2p connected just fine.....
Even TOR connected fine...

*But yes, no one will be able to download from you from p2p. who cares..
and you will be unable to run a game Server..thats hosting the game on your pc, not playing online on someone elses server.
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WHAT FOLKS HERE FAILED TO MENTION:

* It can sometimes be the exact opposite of dial-up...

Instead of waiting on a page "too" load up...
Your waiting on it to send the page back to you..
But once it finally does, it loads up fast for me.
In other words, their page response times can be down right horrible.
Yeah, I'm always happy reloading page after page. Gives me more to do. cool...
So it can be like: You click a link.. it just sits there. still sitting there.. oops.. Page timed out.. Hit reload, page loads right up. That can get very very annoying.
Good old Packet Loss.

but of course, really late, everything works pretty great.
So everyone, please Disconnect from cricket at night. ;-)
Like right now.. in the A.M. it's working real good..
I think I'll play an online game now...

an Online game on different servers:
180-245 ping - playable for me.. same as dial-up.
240-480 - during the unusable hours... not very playable.
Although my Dial-up would skyrocket into the thousands with 17 or more players.
so on a good cricket "night". I can play with more players than on my dialup.

* Download Speeds: Are NEVER STEADY..never.
It goes up and down more than a hooker on friday night.lol
Downloading...45kb--goes up to 79kb then back down to 65kb..and so on and so forth.
I downloaded 95MB in 22 minutes..sure beats my dialup.
Downloaded 430mb in 1 hour and 50 minutes.
That would have took 4 days or more on my dialup. lol

* Bandwidth Limit: 5 Gigabytes.
That seems pretty skimpy to me...what you think?
Are there people turning a crank sweating when I download something? NO.. it's all automatic no one does nothing.
Does it make their light bill go up or what?
I'd say 25gigs would be reasonable. heck even 10gigs.
5 just seems to darn skimpy making you watch what you download so your speed don't get cut down.

Websites say I'm from California or Texas, when in fact I'm not. That's probably why webpage requests are slow.. when I click a link it's probably sending the request 5 states over, and then sending the page back to me. So my question is, is page response times superfast in california...lol
* If you run an isp, I would hope to think you would have a main system IN that perticular State.
and not be piggy backing off of your already overloaded networks five states over. o m g.

* But the good news is, I can send and receive text messages without even being connected online.

Yeah, You can txt your buddy and say: Sorry , but I can't play right now, cause it's Lag a lot Hour... LOL...
or txt: If it would send me back the page I could view it...

* Cricket has been here about 20 days.
The first 7 days it was really usable at any hour. very acceptable.. After day seven, uh oh..
time to reload that page cause the network didn't send the page request back.

* UNable to change DNS servers to a better one that's not a thousand miles away. Tried: Wouldn't go to anything then,
So Stuck with their crappy responding dns server. Their dns server is a 486! The 33mhz one.. not the 66mhz one...LOL.

* UNable to set to the right MTU.. cause at least 1 packet fails upon every PING command
no matter what setting you choose or what site your pinging.or what time it is...
thats not very good if you ask me....

and just to note: My signal usually stays at: 96% - 100%
and my pc and browser settings are optimised of course.

*Got NAT?
Websites see: 8.x.x.x. while your adapter reads: 10.x.x.x
and That will be why a Server probably won't work.

* Like using RapidShare?
You'll sometimes get the never before seen...
"Your IP is already downloading a file"
When in fact.. you won't be...
but of course there's ways around that problem...hee hee.

* by all means, if you can get dsl or cable.. run that wire!

* Need mobile for your laptop, get any other service.

Ok, well that about sums it up from my experience with cricket so far.
Oh Wait, I better copy this text in case this page doesn't attempt to load up with the first click .
aww wait.. its in the a.m. everything works good now.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21281598 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:21:36 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21218735 anon : Can someone tell me if using a Cricket broadband USB modem would change my IP address?

Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21218735 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:03:53 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21161445 formeat : Thanks to everyone who has responded so far.

From what I’m reading, Cricket is not an alternative to my current service. The only thing they’re good for is reading e-mail (without attachments), and I can do that at the local library for free. They are a perfect example of a company that starts with a business model, and then minimizes the product before handing it over to marketing for introduction. They got as close as possible to selling something that is outright defective.

But the way Cricket suddenly appeared here shows the HUGE market seeking a lower cost alternative to Cox (cable) and Embarq (DSL) in Las Vegas. One day they didn’t exist, and the next day every third commercial on TV was for their, “$40.00 per month Internet service.” And how threatened was Cox by this competition? They actually raised their price! No company in a TRUE free market has that kind of confidence or audacity.

It proves that if someone were to offer basic Internet service with an acceptable download speed and WITHOUT implementing every possible way to make the service USELESS, they’d have customers lining up.

Huge instant customer base available! Big profits! Any takers? Anyone? Hello?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21161445 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:52:50 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21147967 anon : Living in Phoenix, when I moved my new home did not have DSl or cable available.

I got the cricket USB modem about 2 weeks ago. Pretty painless at the store, about 140 bucks out the door (modem, service and activation) which includes 1 month of service and I get a 50 buck mail in rebate.

Probably wont see the rebate as it requires 45 days continuous service from the activation date and taking into account the last 2 weeks have been the worst of my online years.

First on the positive, since it is a short topic. Cheap, no contracts...great for quick email checking or instant messengers...but heaven help you if you want to downlaod attachments, as a 1.5 meg file took almost 2 hours and then failed to complete. You can get used to that though, as it is a crap shoot if it will downlaod and if it will be usable once it does.

The surfing speeds are mediocre...but straight attachment download speeds are horrible, getting to a real body or voice on the cricket support lines is like trying to talk one on pne to the president. WHen I say slow, often times the modem simply sits idling (no data transfer) and they have a nifty utility that shows you real time the transfer speeds. My first call to tech support using the number that came with the equipment netted me the knowledge that is the wrong tech number, so they gave me another one that rang to some recorded message. Calling teh original number back I got placed on hold and finally had my call transferred to some finance guy who was equally urprised at my tech question as I was he answerd, He could not transfer me so yet agin I call back and FINALLY got a gal that semed knowledgable.

My signal strength at my office is 100% and after checking several things and reinstalling the modem and software she bailed and said an engineer would have to contact me. She asked for a good time to have them call, I answered right now and she said 24-48 hours...well it was the 48 before tehy called and were no help....they were going to send a signal van out to my address and test the tower and that was the last I heard from them over a week ago.

Did I mention the first lady I actually got from tech support had me shutdown my anti virus and firewall to test and of course I got nailed and my IE7 is now hosed along with XP doing some lovely things.

So I think the card basically is crap, the service of cricket is non existant and mine goes back tomorrow so I am sure getting a full refund of all my money will be a battle right up to the point I call my credit card company and dispute the charge if necessary.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21147967 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:57:01 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21121342 anon : I have had the usb card for about a week I live in Tulsa Ok and get about 300-400 down and 100 up. With my sprint phone I get 1mb to 1.2 down 100 up and no limit. The other gay thing about cricket is they block all ports your connects go through a NAT. So no FTP no Good online games NO torrents or any peer 2 peer. They really limit you and sprint blocks no ports and its fast enough to play alot of online games and for downloads. Also better coverage. If you have a sprint phone you get PAM for $40 a month and its at least 2x the service. with a connection cards its $50 a month but its alot faster. In some areas sprint has rev.a which gets 5mb down 1 up!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21121342 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:26:44 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21120173 pappychuilo : I have cricket and the service sucks!!!! NEVER use cricket!!! they have the worst tech support and they lie about everything, they said I would get high speed, but my download is 120 and upload 38 so there is my point. If you want scammed and frustrated then go ahead and get cricket.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21120173 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:04:56 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20886829 iansltx : Millenicom.

Find a computer with a PCMCIA card slot in it. Then order a Pantech PX500 on eBay for ~$20. Activate on Millenicom, put the card in the computer and see how it goes. If it works, keep the card or upgrade to a USB modem. If not, you can probably sell your outfit to someone else.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20886829 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:40:31 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20884630 mcoan : So, I just returned from the Cricket kiosk at my local shopping mall. They had a notebook set up with a PC card. I went to www.speedtest.net and got a recommendation of using a server in Kansas City (I'm in Santa Fe; Denver and el Paso are closer, but whatever). I got 400K. I asked where the anntenas are because maybe I'll be closer. Didn't know. Walked away...there went the only "unlimited" option available.

Meanwhile, over at Verizon's store, I got 768K dl. Was fourth in line; store was packed. Went next to Sprint, where they had two people helping about 20 customers and didn't have a computer set up with wireless broadband. Walked out.

Verizon or Wildblue? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20884630 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:40:47 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20747359 anon : Get the card online or by calling cricket's toll free number directly and you can get the pcmcia card for free or the usb for $59 (both after mail in rebate).
»www.mycricket.com/broadband?se=m···ycricket ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20747359 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:05:20 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20734168 hottboiinnc : Cricket is a MAJOR MVNO with Sprint. Most of their network is just resold Sprint which is how fast they turn their networks on and the EVDO-A. Why build a network when Sprint will lease you theirs. Also doesn't the 5Gigs a month cap sound like Sprint? Also Cricket does have nationwide coverage now if you have that on your plan but limited to 200 minutes per month (on the Sprint network again)

Once in a while depending on your area you can actually pick up Cricket's 611 from a Sprint phone-well at least here you can.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20734168 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:54:59 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20719872 anon : read this before buying. cricket is nothing more than what is available already thru other carriers.

»blogs.lvcitylife.com/cityblog/20···ing-area

I know a person that actually bought the laptop connection, and she states that if she is more than 6 miles from the center of Las Vegas, there is no broadband connection. The ad is totally bogus.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20719872 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:56:18 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20705915 anon : I just got the cricket broadband usb modem today for my laptop. It is not as fast as the cable modem that I have for my desktop but it is faster than some of the other cards like the one that I used to use by tmobile. It uses the EV-DO network. So depending on where you are it may not be as fast as the 3G-networks. I love the soft cap of 5gb. This means that I do not have to keep track of my data usage. I went into the store over on Raibow in Las Vegas and out the door the total including activation and card insurance was 148 dollars. You also get a 50 mail-in rebate. The monthly bill it about 48 dollars including taxes. But the best thing i love is that i get relative broadband service with no contract. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20705915 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:36:49 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20694161 dak2002 : Well I live in salt lake city, ut and this is my first day. Speeds are not good but they work just fine. 300kb/s and 100 kb/s up. Still need to do more testing. Also the slot 2 type card is being recall and i was one of them who used it and never worked. The usb card works fine but 60 more dollars is not fun. It works good for me i stream radio to my car stero. Anyways i'll update if i feel like it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20694161 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:44:38 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20693220 anon : From what I've seen in Syracuse, it's a well built network. Problem is their service area is tiny. They could be one of the leaders with the right management. There was talk of them getting in bed with Sprint but I think that died.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20693220 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:35:13 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20673920 anon : Look at KeyOn Communications, a local WISP.

$25 a month for 1.5/128k. No bandwidth limit, and a fairly good city coverage.

www.keyon.com - 866-276-3300]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20673920 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:09:52 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20613867 iansltx : Yeah, I have ideas about a nationwide unlicensed WiMax carrier but it'll be ahile before that gets to Vegas :)

Again, if you like VoIP you *could* use it over CricKet MBB but the quality wouldn't be as great.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20613867 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:33:49 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20613546 formeat : Thanks! I really appreciate your detailed reply. It perfectly illustrates how valuable this site is, and the depth of knowledge it's users have.

It'd be great to find a cheaper Internet connection than my current $52/month, especially being I'm not hosting sites or using major bandwidth. And I don't really need wireless or mobility, either. But my connection has always been stable, and with speeds about 50% better than advertised. Obviously, no connection at any price is cost effective if it's unstable.

I've thought of switching to DSL, but now that I'm using MagicJack, I don't need someone elses phone service. And that in itself drives the cost right back up to what I'm currently paying.

I'll keep looking for a cheaper alternative, but it just doesn't seem like there are any out there.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20613546 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:10:20 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20587794 iansltx : Max Signal, nope and nope...

Here's a thread that might help ya,

»howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1378641

Anyway, there is a 5GB per month limit, looks to be a soft cap though, on their service. EvDO Rev. A is overlaid on most of their network at is EvDO...which isn't all of it still...

Speeds look to be about 1 Mbit down, 300 kbit up. You may be able to get 1200/500 though, with one person reporting 1400/900 right across from a tower.

The cost of startup is the cost of the modem plus the activation fee, though you might be able to waive the latter. So $150 or so after taxes and the mail-in rebate on the modem.

Taxes and fees should be minimal since we're talking about a data connection and not a voice one...just a few bucks per month on top of your $40. Though they could be more if CricKet wants to gouge...though if I remember correctly your state has very little in the vein of cellular taxes so you should pay pretty close to that $40.

And yes, they have no contracts, deposits or ETFs and you can take your modem anywhere CricKet has coverage and still have internet, though again in some places it will be quite slow (a few times faster than dialup) due to their not rolling out EvDO everywhere.

The bottom line is, before you commit to getting the card, make double-sure you have a good CricKet signal where you'll be using the modem. Vegas is a new market so this may or may not be the case. Then use a usage tracking program to make sure you aren't using more than 5GB of data per month.

Then check your cable company and see if they have a lower-priced tier that is around 1 Mbit down and 384k up (what you'll get from CricKet more than likely...though speeds may lessen on CricKet over time due to tower loading) and if so you probably want to go with that.

If they don't, check for DSL with the same qualifications...you *should* be able to get 1.5 Mbit DSL (faster than CricKet would be) for a lower price than what you'd pay for the mobile service.

In short, if you already have a high speed connection you'd be saving maybe $10 a month...though you'd only be doing so after amortizing the cost of the modem, which would take well over a year. You'd have a slower connection, with higher latency (though it shouldn't be prohibitively high so as to make gaming\VoIP impossible) that what your cableco is providing you, and you'd want to keep under the 5 GB a month limit, which I personally can't do.

The big draw of CricKet's mobile high speed internet is...well...mobility, though. So if you are willing to make those tradeoffs to get a service that you can use anywhere CricKet has service (which isn't exactly anywhere...they're focused on large cities and *maybe* the corridors between them) then the service will be good for you. But I wouldn't dump cable for CricKet Mobile Broadband just 'cuz it's cheaper. In that case, you should dump cable for DSL...or ask for a lower cable speed tier.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20587794 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:43:35 EDT Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20587643 Max Signal : I heard there is a 2.5 gig monthly limit and they are using EVDO Rev. 0 devices , that is all I know
--
www.MaximumSignal.Net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20587643 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:09:24 EDT Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20587406 formeat : Can anyone provide feedback on Cricket's $40.00/month Wireless Broadband service? They began advertising this heavily in the Las Vegas NV area last weekend. It uses a small USB plug-in modem.

I'm curious about the real cost of start-up ("requires new activation AND up to a $25 activation fee"), the true monthly cost ("taxes and fees extra"), and some of their disclaimers:

* Throughput may be limited if use exceeds 5GB per month.
* Internet browsing does not include, "Machine-to-machine connections, "Peer to peer (P2P) connections."

They state that there's no contract term, no security deposit, and no "carrier's" early termination fee.

I'd just want it for home use, and to save a few bucks over the $52/mo I currently shell out for cable broadband.

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20587406 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:25:32 EDT