 Review by joeam2 
UPDATED: 6 days ago
member for 4.7 years, 285 visits, last login: 6 days ago
 Saint Clair,Saint Clair,MI
 $59 per month (24 month contract)
 about 1 days
 "Original support staff I dealt with were very good. Not so much now."
 "System speeds occasionally drop to low levels in this area."
 "Not as good as it once was but may be better than dial up."
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For well over two years, I had outstanding service with Sprint. Their tech people were great and everything was flawless with the system. Everywhere I went I had service and the speeds were great, especially at my house. I was recommending them to anyone who would listen to me. Earlier this year (2009), all that changed. Their system in this area has become somewhat unreliable and their tech support staff was no help. Lately things seem to be stabilizing somewhat after a rocky 5 month period.
Service is usually good around here except on weekends. Weekdays, I enjoy good speed, weekends are a different story. Starting late Friday the service begins to slow down, by mid afternoon Saturday it is at best marginally usable if it is working at all. This has been a consistent problem for a while now and appears to be the result of under capacity at the tower. Complaints about it seem to fall on deaf ears at Sprint.
Something to think about, if you are considering going with Sprint MBB in this area.
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Followup comments:  wispagod
join:2001-06-28
House Springs, MO | USB Modem my cusin has the usb modem he can plug it in directly with out the wire and it works, what's the deal with the USB cable with too ports it seems to work fine on 1? | |
|  | ydoucare
join:2003-03-12
Rensselaer, IN
 ·Embarq
 ·Millenicom
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Re: USB Modem said by wispagod :my cusin has the usb modem he can plug it in directly with out the wire and it works, what's the deal with the USB cable with too ports it seems to work fine on 1? A single USB port puts out less power than what the radio/modem can utilize for the RF signal, so one cable that splits off is only used to draw extra power from the other port, and can improve speeds in some situations. | |
| | | wispagod
join:2001-06-28
House Springs, MO | Re: USB Modem Ok, well on a Laptop i doubt it get's more power with both cables, but it's nice to kn0w, BTW: Does the Linksys router have more power to work in a more rual setting at a SOHO? | |
| | CMoore2004
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Jonesville, MI
| In fringe areas, they recommend the use of the Y cable to get more power to it.
On another note, if you have two ports right next to eachother, chances are they're from the same controller and you won't get any more power by doing it this way.
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Sprint Mobile Broadband PX-500 | Windows XP MCE SP2 | Mobile AMD Athlon 64 4000+ | 1.5GB RAM | ATI Mobile Radeon X600 128MB | 120GB HDD | |
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joeam2
Got any bugs?
join:2005-02-27
Saint Clair, MI | Re: USB Modem Yeah, thats pretty much what the support techs told me when I asked them about the "y" cable. | |
| | | | CMoore2004
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join:2003-02-06
Jonesville, MI | Re: USB Modem That's also what the documentation that came with it said.  | |
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