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help please.

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The wording says ‘throughput **may** be limited’, it does not say it **will* be limited.

And their wording ‘Internet browsing does not include: ….applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality.” makes it obvious that they won’t let somebody destroy their network because they said it was “unlimited”.

One could easily download 5GB in 1 day, by downloading at half-speed…

My download rates on my Cricket Kyocera KPC650 were a little faster (~200kbps) than my Cricket UM100C USB modem, and I usually pulled a nice stable 140KB/sec… I frequently performed online speedtests, and I consistently got about 155KB/sec (1250kbps (+/- 30kbps).

At 140KB/sec, here what that gets me:
Data Time
140 KB / 1 second
8.2 MB / 1 minute
492 MB / 1 hour
5.9 GB / 12 hours
11.8 GB / 1 day
82 GB / 7 days (1 week)
350 GB / 30 days

I *could* download 10GB/day. In reality, I don’t think I ever downloaded more than 1 or 2GB, and that was really needing a torrent or something..

I happened to have my cricket internet shared amongst the 3 laptops in my hours, and we were all happy campers.

Of course, we’re much happier now with cable iternet… and cricket voice service of course.

Bottom line… I think cricket really does mean “unlimited”, in the sense of “unlimited usage with good intentions”… If somebody is streaming HD tv 4 or 5 hours a night, racking up 2GB/day, and maybe 30GB!/mo, I don’t think they are any kind of problem, because that’s what the average person does these days… But if you say, 30GB/mo limit, then whoa… that’s a lot, I wonder if I can even download that much, and you’re gonna have people trying to reach their cap, instead of worrying about going over it.

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Now if only they would un-cap all of the phones, which used to have the same speeds as broadband cards (if the phone was capable, which meant a flashed phone, or I suppose a cricket razr, razr2, rokr, slvr or krzr).

About 4 months ago we saw our evdo speeds on phones drop to about 180kbps-200kbps! That’s 5x times slower! That’s not a cap, that’s a jack! But we couldn’t really complain to anyone, since they don’t officially sell/support a single handset capable of evdo/broadband speeds. And since none of the Cricket-branded handsets support tethering (it is disabled at the firmware level, something no other carrier does), why’d they cap?

-beezl

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“Throughput may be limited if use exceeds 5GB per month. Internet browsing does not include: hosted computer applications, continuous web camera or broadcast, automatic data feeds, machine-to-machine connections, peer to peer (P2P) connections or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality.”
http://www.mycricket.com/cricketplans/details/broadband

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To the poster who suggested purchasing a 6700 for use with Sprint’s Sero plan; the same phone can unlocked and reprogrammed (”flashed”) to work with Cricket, including EVDO and tethering with your computer. You’ll have unlimited EVDO + Unlimited minutes/SMS/MMS/Long distance/411 for $50/mo. Or less ($35) if you don’t want long distance/411/voicemail….

This is not something I’ve heard, this is something I do, here in Denver, for people, all day, and is my full-time job. I’m also posting this comment while connected to the Internet on my laptop, using a flashed Sprint Mogul, which of course has the WM6.1/GPS updates. I get about 1100-1300kbps downstream, 320kbps upstream, according to speedtest.net, dslreports and other online bandwidth speed tests.

Visit the cricket forum at howardforums, it is easily the largest gathering of cricket enthusiests and experts that I know of. You’d be amazed what we have accomplished on our little regional carrier.

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but egh crappy phones.

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