Any experience with Cricket Wireless Broadband?
—————————————————— * Jullom asked (Can someone tell me if using a Cricket broadband USB modem would change my IP address?)
nawww ALL isp’s use the same ip range..LOL In other words.. YES, of course, a different isp means a different ip address. duhhrrr… lol…. ——————————————————- * Dan knugg – says no ftp no online gaming…. That means no running your own ftp SERVER or a game SERVER.
My FTP software connected just fine to my online web host. My online shooting game connected just fine… My encrypted p2p connected just fine….. Even TOR connected fine…
*But yes, no one will be able to download from you from p2p. who cares.. and you will be unable to run a game Server..thats hosting the game on your pc, not playing online on someone elses server. ——————————————————-
WHAT FOLKS HERE FAILED TO MENTION:
* It can sometimes be the exact opposite of dial-up…
Instead of waiting on a page “too” load up… Your waiting on it to send the page back to you.. But once it finally does, it loads up fast for me. In other words, their page response times can be down right horrible. Yeah, I’m always happy reloading page after page. Gives me more to do. cool… So it can be like: You click a link.. it just sits there. still sitting there.. oops.. Page timed out.. Hit reload, page loads right up. That can get very very annoying. Good old Packet Loss.
but of course, really late, everything works pretty great. So everyone, please Disconnect from cricket at night. Like right now.. in the A.M. it’s working real good.. I think I’ll play an online game now…
an Online game on different servers: 180-245 ping – playable for me.. same as dial-up. 240-480 – during the unusable hours… not very playable. Although my Dial-up would skyrocket into the thousands with 17 or more players. so on a good cricket “night”. I can play with more players than on my dialup.
* Download Speeds: Are NEVER STEADY..never. It goes up and down more than a hooker on friday night.lol Downloading…45kb–goes up to 79kb then back down to 65kb..and so on and so forth. I downloaded 95MB in 22 minutes..sure beats my dialup. Downloaded 430mb in 1 hour and 50 minutes. That would have took 4 days or more on my dialup. lol
* Bandwidth Limit: 5 Gigabytes. That seems pretty skimpy to me…what you think? Are there people turning a crank sweating when I download something? NO.. it’s all automatic no one does nothing. Does it make their light bill go up or what? I’d say 25gigs would be reasonable. heck even 10gigs. 5 just seems to darn skimpy making you watch what you download so your speed don’t get cut down.
Websites say I’m from California or Texas, when in fact I’m not. That’s probably why webpage requests are slow.. when I click a link it’s probably sending the request 5 states over, and then sending the page back to me. So my question is, is page response times superfast in california…lol * If you run an isp, I would hope to think you would have a main system IN that perticular State. and not be piggy backing off of your already overloaded networks five states over. o m g.
* But the good news is, I can send and receive text messages without even being connected online.
Yeah, You can txt your buddy and say: Sorry , but I can’t play right now, cause it’s Lag a lot Hour… LOL… or txt: If it would send me back the page I could view it…
* Cricket has been here about 20 days. The first 7 days it was really usable at any hour. very acceptable.. After day seven, uh oh.. time to reload that page cause the network didn’t send the page request back.
* UNable to change DNS servers to a better one that’s not a thousand miles away. Tried: Wouldn’t go to anything then, So Stuck with their crappy responding dns server. Their dns server is a 486! The 33mhz one.. not the 66mhz one…LOL.
* UNable to set to the right MTU.. cause at least 1 packet fails upon every PING command no matter what setting you choose or what site your pinging.or what time it is… thats not very good if you ask me….
and just to note: My signal usually stays at: 96% – 100% and my pc and browser settings are optimised of course.
*Got NAT? Websites see: 8.x.x.x. while your adapter reads: 10.x.x.x and That will be why a Server probably won’t work.
* Like using RapidShare? You’ll sometimes get the never before seen… “Your IP is already downloading a file” When in fact.. you won’t be… but of course there’s ways around that problem…hee hee.
* by all means, if you can get dsl or cable.. run that wire!
* Need mobile for your laptop, get any other service.
Ok, well that about sums it up from my experience with cricket so far. Oh Wait, I better copy this text in case this page doesn’t attempt to load up with the first click . aww wait.. its in the a.m. everything works good now.
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