Cricket Broadband in Houston,Tx

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runsane6o

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I just got a text message saying that cricket broadband is coming tomorrow. I wanted to know if it is fast in your are ( if you have it) and if it would work with online games (like kartrider). And if it is better than ATT (i just got a bill from att saying that i went over my 5 gig limit even though that is totally false so i want to get unlimited)i got charged like 860 dollars but they fixed it. but still 5 gigs isnt enough with all the online games i play
 
Cricket coverage sucks in Houston, compared to At&t. Plus, you can only use cricket broadband in cricket areas. That leaves huge gaps of no coverage in Texas.
 
^^^ Really ? i dont think is that bad ..

As far the broadband card its pretty fast i compare it to RABL, actually been out in Houston for few weeks now..
As far coverage with the broadband card you can use it in the texas area of Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Temple, Kileen, College station, Bryan, Laredo, Mcallen, The valley, Corpus Christy, Del Rio and Eagle pass.
 
Actually, coverage is EXCELLENT in Houston.
Maybe they had Cricket when it just came to Houston, but now it is great.
As for the broadband card, since I have never had AT&T broadband, I can't really compare it with Cricket, but I can say that the speeRAB you get on it are pretty good.
 
really..does it suck in houston or outside of houston?
i was in houston at launch and i have to say my coverage was excellent everywhere i went except inside the galleria i had weak coverage on both my t-mobile and my cricket phones. given t-mobile's dominance in texas and houston specifically i'd have to say that's pretty good, especially for launch, i'm sure any trouble areas IN houston have been fine tuned.

really tho, the speed should be 700-900kbps ISH so how fast was your ATT.


also... online games don't transfer a lot of data. they are specifically designed to not need to transfer large amounts of data.
if you are regularly exceeding 5GB (average usage is ~2GB according to my rep) on cricket broadband and they are able to determine from your usage patterns that you are violating the terms of service (no servers, no voip, no file sharing, only one computer connected at a time) you will be warned, and subsequently have your throughput limited (forced down to 1X).
 
In my area, ckt has a 5gig softcap also, throughput will be slowed way down as it will cause slower connection over the network if they didn't cap it. Good luck finding aircard service that don't cap.
 
please read my post above where i explain the soft cap. also at least in central cali, no one has been limited even though there are a handful of people exceeding 5GB. the text is there for legal reasons in case someone is way overdoing it and causing problems for everyone else then cricket can shut it off, but for things like games, and even streaming video/audio you should be ok. on the otherhand if you're like me and download 30-50+ GB of movies, music, and software every month you'll probably be terminated (YAY for cable!).
 
technoevil,
If you have cricket please state so in you're providers otherwise I have no reason not to believe you are just being biast about the service and you have no reason to be in the cricket forum unless you are trying to obtain information for switching carriers.. As far as i noted though you posted here just stating cricket sucks with out any possible explination on why.
 
ok so the part where you said cricket coverage in houston is terrible..

i have a big problem with that when i was in houston for launch i did not have problems with coverage from day 1 (I was able to use my phone as soon as i got there a few days before launch). the only place i had weak signal (still got calls through tho) was inside the galleria mall. every place else i went i had no issues. i'm assuming that a year later they have tunes and added towers to fill in any gaps they launched with.]

have you actually used cricket or are you basing your coverage assesment on what other people say?

there are two things that leaRAB most people to think that cricket has bad coverage.
1) Metro. Metro has terrible coverage. people confuse cricket with metro becaue the rate plans and the business model are similar. cricket is not metro. cricket's network is top notch and typically launches at 90-95% capacity/sites planned for the market, versus metro which launchs with somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80% and builRAB there coverage footprint/fills in trouble areas post launch. two different strategies,i think crickets is better for building the brand and reducing churn, but metro's may make a bit more sense economically as far as trying to start recouping build out costs faster even before they are fully built out, and metro takes on bigger lauches which require more build out so it kindof makes sense. irregardless of which one is better or right i'm just stating the misconception that cricket is not the same as metro no mater what people think.
2) the roam issue. I cannot stress enough to people that cricket is designed to work where people live and work. it's not designed for travelling, they have come out with some stellar roam options tho, that will work really well for most people that do spend even a pretty liberal amount of time outside of the covered area.(which doesn't apply to broadband tho)
I really think if you ask people in houston that have cricket how they like there coverage the only complaints you'll here are people that have a hard time grasping the boundaries of there market (most of which a $5 roam optionwith 30 minutes would provide a sufficient amount of minutes for them to experience no coverage issues)
 
i was on the cricket website today and i saw the 5gig softcap. i play a game called popkart(or kartrider for some people) alot and I also watch a lot of anime online too. i want to make this decision before my 30 day trial with att is over. I play popkart a lot so is that going to be an issue with the softcap?
 
MOST games don't use much data. As I said before. Asdditionally it probably will not be an isue. Thr soft cap is strictly to have a nuraber, they won't shut you off as long as you're not breaking any of the other terms (I.e. file sharing, voip, server, router/multiple computers)
 
Do it sparingly...If you see a song you like or something like that...download those and then don't open it and leave it running so others can download off of you...that's what they mean really...but don't go crazy with it....just be cautious of what and how much you download.
 
because my aunt never wanted me to use her internet ( although i offered to pay for half) and where I'm moving to I don't think the household has internet...
 
yeah the point is if you're using a lot of bandwidth they will analyze your usage, if they see a lot of p2p or whatever they will let you know to cut it out and if you continue they will force you down to 1x instead of evdo.
 
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