http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Cricket offers EV-DO access for $40 per month... with no contract http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 1:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 2:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 2:33PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 3:10PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 3:35PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 4:33PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 8:28PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 15th 2008 9:28AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/]]>Sep 13th 2008 8:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 13th 2008 11:33PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Sep 14th 2008 12:45AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/
Cricket users roam constantly in Kansas City and it's surrounding suburbs.]]>Sep 14th 2008 2:40AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/
$40 isn't bad, but what's even better is, if you get also have Cricket phone service, it's $35. I'm a poor college student, so every little bit helps. Unlimited calling and texts + internet for the same price as the base iPhone plan? I'm there. :p

And the little USB modem is cute. ]]>Sep 14th 2008 4:15AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/
Today it is averaging 4 minutes per page load. 3.5 for google. I pings google and even though it appears one of the 17 hops to get to google was a backbone provider, my average time was 500 ms per hop, some over 1200ms. I have been getting 12mbps in short busts. It is slower than a 14400 modem. I emailed the network they are using level3, but I gave up after 7 minutes tryign to get into my email.

I am hoping they are better in other city's, but I plan to call and cancel this weekend. I have no idea how I can get back the 108 for the modem though.

If you want to see my trace routes go to http://wer2chosen.blogspot.com]]>Sep 17th 2008 11:07PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Oct 7th 2008 2:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/it all began when I tried doing the "easy install"...let's just say that hours later, I finally called customer service and found out that though the install disc said it worked on a mac, I would have to go download the software to install in on my mac because what was included on the disc wouldn't work after all. For pete sake, if I already had the ability to just go download the software off the internet, I wouldn't have signed up for cricket in the first place.
Now, I finally have it working...and tried to go set up my account online, and again after hours of trying to make things work and talking with clueless CSRs on the phone, they finally told me that they don't have the technology to allow mac users to have accounts and passwords online. Are you kidding me? Utterly ridiculous, especially when they want all business for my account handled online. Oh sure, they said they'd be happy to send me a bill in the mail, but I'd be charged $2 each month. I realize it's a measly $2, but it's the principle of the matter.
Unless they get their head in gear and start providing the actual service they claim to for macs, someone needs to step on this cricket. ]]>Nov 8th 2008 2:00PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/13/cricket-offers-ev-do-access-for-40-per-month-with-no-contrac/Nov 23rd 2008 7:26PM