I've just read about a million reviews about how slow and awful Cricket is, and that they have a 5G as month limit ... :::sigh::: I don't know. For as big a metropolitan area as this is, it seems stupid to be limited to three companies for HS internet connection, but there ya go. At least I'm not tied to a contract. Meanwhile, I'll hope for the best.
hey it may be great! when do you get hooked up with it or do you already have it?
The modem thingie shipped yesterday via UPS. They said 3-5 business days, so I'm guessing I'll have it by Wednesday, if not sooner. Then, it's (at least in theory) just a matter of popping it into a USB port on my PC, registering it, and it's done.
One of my post purchase concerns is this monthly 5G "cap" they have. (I thought "unlimited" meant "unlimited.") I need to find out more about that, and decide on a way to monitor my usage, I guess. There seem to be a lot of programs out there for such monitoring, but I'm not even sure what it is I need to monitor. I mean ... if that's just "intentional" uploads and downloads, or just surfing, and stuff. I got it primarily for watching tele-seminars without a ten second "buffering" pause every 12th word. After that, it's for uploading photos in their original size without spending close to an hour on each photo, and downloading music, and finally, viewing some online video things like news blurbs, "how-to" blurbs, and YOU TUBE things. With the "cap" I'm wondering if I should use my dial up for my "regular" stuff, and only hook up the broadband for certain things .... which seems like a huge pain to me. I'll just have to wait and see, I guess. WOULD be nice, though, to be able to, for instance, upload photos here without having to first insert them in mail, mail them to myself, then open the mail, and save it to my computer, and then upload from there, and no longer watch the three minute YOU TUBE things by clicking "play" and then going to do something else, and hope I return right beore it finishes, and then click and drag the pointer back to the beginning of the video.
youre right there is no contract so if its not what you want you can try the others but if it is then youre all set. and after dial up ill bet that any broadband connection is going to seem like a freeway.
I hope so. And I hope it's not like our freeways here between 2-7 PM, which is another complaint I've been reading about Cricket -- that it's filled up, and consequently slowed down to "slower than my dial up!" and you get booted a lot between 9AM-9PM.
I've just read about a million reviews about how slow and awful Cricket is, and that they have a 5G as month limit ... :::sigh::: I don't know. For as big a metropolitan area as this is, it seems stupid to be limited to three companies for HS internet connection, but there ya go. At least I'm not tied to a contract. Meanwhile, I'll hope for the best.
hey it may be great! when do you get hooked up with it or do you already have it? youre right there is no contract so if its not what you want you can try the others but if it is then youre all set. and after dial up ill bet that any broadband connection is going to seem like a freeway.
Just placed my online order for Cricket wireless broadband. No contracts, no other "ongoing" charges for extra junk monthly rental. Had to buy the modem, and after that, it's $40 a month (plus extra surcharges junk charges, so I'm guessing about $50) and I can stop it any time I want (and also use it on a lap top, and take it anywhere with me that I want. Most importantly to me, I don't have to deal with either of the other two options in my area: Qwest or Cox Cable. We'll see how it goes, I guess.
great! is this an air card?
No, just a USB connect broadband. I've just read about a million reviews about how slow and awful Cricket is, and that they have a 5G as month limit ... :::sigh::: I don't know. For as big a metropolitan area as this is, it seems stupid to be limited to three companies for HS internet connection, but there ya go. At least I'm not tied to a contract. Meanwhile, I'll hope for the best.
Just placed my online order for Cricket wireless broadband. No contracts, no other "ongoing" charges for extra junk monthly rental. Had to buy the modem, and after that, it's $40 a month (plus extra surcharges junk charges, so I'm guessing about $50) and I can stop it any time I want (and also use it on a lap top, and take it anywhere with me that I want. Most importantly to me, I don't have to deal with either of the other two options in my area: Qwest or Cox Cable. We'll see how it goes, I guess.
great! is this an air card? ill be curious to see how it works for you. ive been thinking of getting one of these. i am especially curious to see how much usage happens with things like pix or web browsing and email. the ones ive looked at havve two different levels of service and i dont do a whole lot and have wondered which would be the better level of service.
Just placed my online order for Cricket wireless broadband. No contracts, no other "ongoing" charges for extra junk monthly rental. Had to buy the modem, and after that, it's $40 a month (plus extra surcharges junk charges, so I'm guessing about $50) and I can stop it any time I want (and also use it on a lap top, and take it anywhere with me that I want. Most importantly to me, I don't have to deal with either of the other two options in my area: Qwest or Cox Cable. We'll see how it goes, I guess.
Getting ready to bite the bullet here, and get a cable internet connection. I know they're all gonna be faster than the dial up, but the question I have is how much speed do I really "need?" Most of the plans have the baseline speed for a certain amount (for the first six months) and then the next level is about ten dollars a month more, and twice as fast, but I'm wondering just how fast a connection I "need" to ... eh? Basically, get away from all that (*&(& "buffering" lag when listening to tele-seminars, or the endless hourglass when I'm uploading a photo. For instance: what exactly is the difference between 1.5 and 3 MPS (other than the obvious) as far as being able to watch ... not movies, but sorta movies, and seminars and stuff? I can't even watch a YOU TUBE or one of those online news videos without the interminable lags after every tenth word or so at this point. I think my professional online requriements are going to just demand I upgrade, and so yeah, I'm getting ready to do that, but I know there are a TON of "extra" charges applied (like monthly rentals for the modem thingie, and this and that and surcharges and bla bla bla) and I know that twenty bucks a month thing doubles pretty quickly, so I'm thinking frugally here, but I don't want to get something that's going to be TOO slow, and just be frustrated with that, and be tied to some stinkin' two year contract.
So... thoughts?
out here theres not a real choice there is no competition. they have carved up the state and you dont get to choose. that said if you do have a choice there are two good deals ive seen. att offers free 3g service with home broadband and their monthly rate is low. if you ever decide to get a mini or a laptop this may be useful. comcast has a low intro price which the ads here say is good for a year. its 19.00 they also offer bundles as does att and you can get cable and broadband and phone for an intro of 75 or so a month which is pretty good. the catch here is that after the teaser rate ends the price gets jacked up. im told by very reliable sources tho that if you call BEFORE the rate goes up they will keep it as is if you threaten to cancel. once you get used to high speed youll never want to go back to dial up. god i remember turning on my computer going to the start page doing the password hitting enter and then taking a shower and with luck the thing would have finished signing on by the time i finished showering.
Getting ready to bite the bullet here, and get a cable internet connection. I know they're all gonna be faster than the dial up, but the question I have is how much speed do I really "need?" Most of the plans have the baseline speed for a certain amount (for the first six months) and then the next level is about ten dollars a month more, and twice as fast, but I'm wondering just how fast a connection I "need" to ... eh? Basically, get away from all that (*&(& "buffering" lag when listening to tele-seminars, or the endless hourglass when I'm uploading a photo. For instance: what exactly is the difference between 1.5 and 3 MPS (other than the obvious) as far as being able to watch ... not movies, but sorta movies, and seminars and stuff? I can't even watch a YOU TUBE or one of those online news videos without the interminable lags after every tenth word or so at this point. I think my professional online requriements are going to just demand I upgrade, and so yeah, I'm getting ready to do that, but I know there are a TON of "extra" charges applied (like monthly rentals for the modem thingie, and this and that and surcharges and bla bla bla) and I know that twenty bucks a month thing doubles pretty quickly, so I'm thinking frugally here, but I don't want to get something that's going to be TOO slow, and just be frustrated with that, and be tied to some stinkin' two year contract.
So... thoughts?
I don't know about cable service except that the line into your home is important and, assume that you have the upgraded ones that you can choose on the speed. If not, you will be paying for the higher speed for nothing. With my dsl, I was on the lower grade for a bit and, there still was the lag even with short videos and, that was not resolved until I went to the highest grade they offered. Well worth the extra. With my service I own the modem and, there is no monthly rental charge for that. Another perk is through a land line power outages will not interupt service if you have a battery backup. Gator
Getting ready to bite the bullet here, and get a cable internet connection. I know they're all gonna be faster than the dial up, but the question I have is how much speed do I really "need?" Most of the plans have the baseline speed for a certain amount (for the first six months) and then the next level is about ten dollars a month more, and twice as fast, but I'm wondering just how fast a connection I "need" to ... eh? Basically, get away from all that (*&(& "buffering" lag when listening to tele-seminars, or the endless hourglass when I'm uploading a photo. For instance: what exactly is the difference between 1.5 and 3 MPS (other than the obvious) as far as being able to watch ... not movies, but sorta movies, and seminars and stuff? I can't even watch a YOU TUBE or one of those online news videos without the interminable lags after every tenth word or so at this point. I think my professional online requriements are going to just demand I upgrade, and so yeah, I'm getting ready to do that, but I know there are a TON of "extra" charges applied (like monthly rentals for the modem thingie, and this and that and surcharges and bla bla bla) and I know that twenty bucks a month thing doubles pretty quickly, so I'm thinking frugally here, but I don't want to get something that's going to be TOO slow, and just be frustrated with that, and be tied to some stinkin' two year contract.
