Review by clirck 
UPDATED: 177 days ago
member for 5.9 years, 149 visits, last login: 68 days ago
 Mckinney,Collin,TX
 $60 per month (24 month contract)
 about 3 days
 "Mobile, plenty fast, easy ICS setup"
 "None, yet"
 "No more Hughesnet! A great alternative"
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This bummer of a slow economy has me sitting home from work today. So here's my take after not quite one year:
After falling from an old growth Post Oak (stupid rope swing; oh, wait, stupid me!), a nephew moved in to help out for a while while my two broken wrists healed. He uses a lot of bandwidth, compared to me.
Last month, between us we broke the "cap" by over 2 Gigs. Result: no noticeable difference, no extra billing cost, and no warning from Sprint. Everything still works great on my 802.11g home network, and the signal never drops. Sure, at times things seem a bit slower, but I've seen similar problems through every service I've used, whether mine or some one else's. Worked great last month on the road to "grandma's house" and I was having fun with it in the Hill Country finding back roads on my way home. Didn't have service everywhere, but I managed.
I gotta say, I'm still happy with the service. But maybe next year, I'll start researching ways to consolidate phone and ISP to bring down cost.
Original Review:
Look, this isn't roadrunner, but it ain't dial-up, either. From one way with dial-up out, through two modem changes, two domain name changes, I've been a satellite customer for eight years. Mostly my experience with the satellite service has been reliable with acceptable speed for browsing. But recently I've some problems with my modem that seemed to fix itself after a couple of days. So when support said that my DW6000 was obsolete and that a new contract would get me an upgrade, I went and spoke with my Sprint rep.
I was considering Internet America, or a local wireless alternative, but at $400 set-up, I wasn't ready for the change. With Sprint, the startup was only $100 and came with the 30 trial.That I can handle. And it works great.
I took it on the road yesterday, and it worked throughout the counties I traveled seamlessly. This morning I plugged it into my desktop, set the desktop as my ICS server, and am up and going on my 802.11g in minutes.
We had big storms here the night that I got the service. All power was out in the area. Clouds and no power would completely disable the Hughes service, but with the Sprint service, I was listening to local radio and watching the radar at the same time on my laptop. No problem.
Speed isn't DSL or cable, but for me, 500 down and 80 up is working just fine. AND NO FAP!
Thanks to all who posted before I changed. Y'all helped me make the leap. Most reviews are positive, and I agree. Just too bad it's not half the price.
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