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1 edit | What does that Cricket legal-sounding quote even mean?! Throughput may be limited if use exceeds 5GB per month. Internet browsing does not include: hosted computer applications, continuous web camera or broadcast, automatic data feeds, machine-to-machine connections, peer to peer (P2P) connections or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality. Internet browsing -- it's not called an "Internet Browsing" service. They advertise it as "Broadband" »www.mycricket.com/broadband/ and even have the nerve to say "With unlimited broadband access you can email, surf and download from virtually anywhere in Cricket's coverage area."
Logo on Cricket's Broadband Page
Maybe they think that incomprehensibility is a defense, however, because they also want you to know that Internet browsing doesn't include applications that "denigrate (sic) network capacity or functionality."
hosted computer applications like DNS clients, perhaps?
continuous web camera or broadcast no video chat -- but slide shows might be okay
automatic data feeds okay, slide shows are probably not okay, but either are RSS readers
machine-to-machine connections -- in fact, you're not allowed to connect with any other Internet hosts -- just make sure that the destination IP address goes into flesh and blood instead of a "machine"
peer to peer -- note to world -- every server is a host and therefore a peer. The message "connection reset by peer" is just one thing that everyone has seen that provides testimony to that fact.
Good grief.
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