mrsbrown2005
@level3.net | reply to formeat
Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband?
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. |
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lisamona
1 edit | reply to formeat
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. |
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white83glt
| reply to formeat
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. |
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TXcrickethat
@rr.com
| 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. |
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Max Signal
Premium
join:2008-03-07
Buffalo, NY | 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 |
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Danga09
join:2009-08-19
| reply to formeat
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!! |
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RockyBB
Premium
join:2005-01-31
Longmont, CO
| said by Danga09  : 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? |
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delmarvawifi
join:2008-07-15 | reply to Danga09
Actually that speed is pretty typical for any cellular provider during peak times. It isn't dial-up speed or even close. |
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yukari
| reply to formeat
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. |
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Danga09
join:2009-08-19
| reply to RockyBB
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. |
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TexasTray
|  reply to formeat
Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband?
It's not worth a penny |
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rsrussell
join:2006-12-26
Richardson, TX
 ·ViaTalk
|  reply to formeat
Re: Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband?
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! |
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Silverspeedr
@comcast.net
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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. |
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Matt Y
|  reply to formeat
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 $150 to turn back on so I just let them go). I was considering Embarq DSL (but I don't want digital phone and don't want anymore contracts). So I settled on Cricket.
I've decided to not try and limit my usage at all for this initial month, and see just how they will or will not throttle me. I think in this last two days I've already downloaded a total of about 2GB so that 5GB soft cap will be reached in no time. I'm connected more than half the day and will be every single day.
So I'm making no effort whatsoever to be frugal in my bandwidth usage or connection time in order to see just how much slower this service can get (as if it wasn't already slow enough).
I'll post again once I've reached (or think I've reached) my 5GB soft cap, and report if anything changes. As for now I'm happy with it and am getting used to a slower Internet: it's actually weaned me off just sitting in front of my PC clicking stuff. I think before I click now and I appreciate pages more. There's a sense of value to each link I click. Okay, now I'm getting a bit too philosophical.
No dropped connections yet, by the way. I get two bars most of the time, sometimes three.
So we'll see how Cricket holds up over this next month as my fulltime Internet for my work (I download about 100mb of files daily), my web browsing (I browse about 500mb of pages a day), my games, streaming shows and music. I'm kind of teetering on the edge of what Cricket does and doesn't want out of their broadband customer.
We'll see if I get throttled. |
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stavo420
| reply to formeat
i have it an it runs fine only cost 85$ total to set it up an its plug an play set up i get 230.4 kbps an it is only 42$ a month |
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lilking26
| reply to formeat
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. |
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Gunslinger01
join:2009-09-11
Colorado Springs, CO
| reply to formeat
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!! |
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matthewcoleh
join:2009-09-12
Hot Springs National Park, AR
| reply to formeat
Cricket Wireless Broadband?
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." |
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