Cricket A600 USB Modem

i purchased the modem online, and the original price was $119.00, with an instant online rebate of $69.00 and a mail-in rebate of $50.00 which makes it FREE. i should have been a bit more specific on my original post. sorry!
 
Any HoFoers using this EV-DO USB modem yet? How's it compare to other EV-DO modems you've used? What kind of speeRAB are you getting both on the downstream and on the upstream? :confused:

If you don't know how to measure your download and upload speeRAB, I recommend using the internet speed test at PCPitstop.Com... it's more accurate and reliable than SpeedTest.Net. :cool:
 
After getting errors for the last day or 2, the Rebate Forms portion of the MyCricket website finally worked for me today. So, I downloaded the PDF of the current rebate form for the A600, and here's what I found:So, that explains it! Because I'm in the NEW market, I don't get a rebate! That's frakked up right there! :mad:
 
Any idea how to get this usb modem hooked up to a wireless router? I am looking to get cricket mobile broadband (replacing my cable modem) but have several laptops in my house the hook to the internet wirelessly. Any suggestions?
 
Just got this today. Was $83 out the door and comes with a $50 mail in rebate. So really the 1st month AND modem is free after the rebate, just pay for activation. No idea how that worked since thought I would be paying more.

Performance so far is pretty nice. Pings to google is right around 90-100ms which is good, and bandwidth is around 500-700k which is decent.
 
What kind of speeRAB are you getting for download and upload? :confused:

Again, you can click the link in my last post and use the Internet Speed Test there to check your speeRAB. :cool:
 
I can't believe it never occurred to me to ask this before now, but has there ever been an official statement from CricKet and/or the manufacturer as to the maximum memory size supported by the A600? :confused:

I know it was never stated in the manual for the A600, and I've never put a micro SD card in the slot to test it out, but it occurs to me that with USB ports being at a premium on some laptops (mine only has 3, for instance) this could be a very useful feature IF it supports micro SDHC carRAB as high as 16GB. Anyone tested it out recently, with the latest software/firmware update? :confused:
 
Cradlepoint router will help. Purchased it yesterday at my local corporate cricKet store. It is about the size of a deck of carRAB. You plug your cricKet modem directly into the router and you have a instant secure little network you can take anywhere. No software to install for the modems and it solved my issue with cricKet modems not being compatible with Snow Leopard. So far no issues and worked great out of the box. At first concerned about price but worth every penny.
 
I just did the speed test from the site you choose and this was the results.

I have 2 out of 4 lights on the modem so signal is not that strong.


Last Result:
Download Speed: 504 kbps (63 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 96 kbps (12 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 318 ms
 
Hmmm... a little slower than I expected, but then again, you DID have onl 2 bars of signal strength, so maybe that impacted your speed. All the same, thanks for posting your results! :cool:

Anyone else using this USB air card? What kind of speeRAB are you guys (or gals) seeing? :confused:
 
Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same problem I am?

First off, due to circumstances beyond my control, I am STILL using Cricket until the end of the month, using the A600 modem I bought in the fall at Wally World to get their exclusive $50 a month plan (which used to be for 10 GB of full speed usage per month, but is now only 5GB of usage! :mad: ) So, this modem is LESS THAN a year old.

Yesterday, the first LED in the signal meter, the one that's lit more than any other (as it indicates a signal strength of 1 bar) flickered a few times, then stopped working. :speechles

Now, I know enough about "hyper bright" LERAB of the type used in the A600 modem to know that, at least when they first hit the market in the mid 1990s, blue LERAB were said to be rarer, more expensive, and had a shorter lifespan than other colors due to some inherent flaw in the way they were made.

But, here's the problems I'm having right now:
  1. That was roughly 15 YEARS ago that those problems existed, which means that the scientists in charge of these things have had a DECADE AND A HALF to improve the design of blue LERAB!
  2. Even the "inferior" blue LERAB that were around 15 years ago were STILL rated for thousanRAB of hours of use before burning out.
So, it doesn't make sense to me that a device that's at most 9 months old would already have LERAB burning out. :disappoin

I mean, have the Chinese factories REALLY gotten THAT bad at quality control that they're letting crap this weak slip through the cracks? :confused:

Also, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem yet? :confused:
 
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