Cricket for broadband... I'm trying it out this month.
and so far I would say....uhhhmmmm....
NOoooo.. I don't even recommend cricket for browsing websites.
If it's not after midnight,
you'll be doing good to get a page to load up the first 5 to 10 clicks.
oh wait, this page just previewed, so maybe it will be 10 instead.
Cricket just came here oct 6.
It was very usable for the first 6 days.... worked good..very acceptable.
It's the exact opposite of dial-up now.
On dial-up I click a link and the page instantly starts to load up, but of course at a real frekin slow speed. 3.9kb -4.1kb
On cricket, when you click a link, it just sits there diddly'n around....
then finally, bam page loads up fast. That is unless you gotta reload the page several more times. Most likely i'll have to reload this page before it post. But yeah, it works ok after midnight or later... sumtimes...
and I have all settings of my pc tweaked. including firefox.
When I was trying to find the right MTU setting, by pinging a site,
cricket would always lose 1 packet no matter what setting I chose.
One time it did not, but pinged again, and sure nuff 1 packet lost.
That should tell ya how good there ping is.
Although after midnight I play assaultCube...
and ping is from 180 - 225 on the top faster servers.
After midnight, cricket works much better.
Earlier it was over 320... not very playable..
It's like they have a 486mhzX66 pc running their entire network...lol
and when 5 people get online, it all bogs down to halt.
That or, it could be their DNS servers.
I tried opendns, but that didnt seem to work, prolly cause cricket uses some sort of transparent proxy or nat or whatever...
I got a message from cricket last night.
You have a new multi-media message! View it now at mycricket.com/mms
Uhh ok.. I would view it if the page would actually load up !
thats pretty crap o la...
* Download ranges from 45kb - 79kb.. and not at a steady speed either.
The downloads complete fine though....
One download was 22min for 95MB.
One download was 1 hour 50min for 430MB.
thats the only thing that's better than dial-up.
* Bandwidth Limit: 5 gigabytes per month. then speed is cut down.
I've used 1500 in 8 days only downloading a couple of large files.
and surfing a lot of pages.. when it works right late at night.
* Crickets behind a NAT: No servers..no web servers...
You can play a game, but not run your own game server.
* Rapidshare - Sometimes get the "Your ip is already downloading a file"
even though I am in fact not downloading a file.
luckily theres ways around that small problem....
* You can send text messages without even being connected online.
just have the quicklink mobile software loaded up....
Basicly your usb modem is a cell phone that you can't talk on.
Welp, hope that helps you out...
oh and satellite internet will be worst, it has to travel thousands of miles through space and then back again.
If you must get rid of dial-up, at least get a good mobile internet, although all the others are 60 bucks a month, but they actually work good.
My buddy has Alltell, I've seem him download at 160kb. but when he went over the bandwidth limit it was cut down to 15kb. Any wireless/satellite will most likely have a bandwidth limit.
