Cricket Broad Band Modem Extended Review 12/23/08

By Paul | Dec 23, 2008

The UM100c is No Longer Available, Please check out the Cricket A600 Modem Review Or the UM185 Broadband modem. The UM185 modem might be a replacement to the UM100.

after the last fiasco of the troubles, I had with Cricket. I wanted to talk about some of the performance of the Broad band that I experienced going from one City to another major City. I thought I’d explain how well this went from one City to another. While on the road we had to watch for sleet and ice conditions of the surrounding area.

I had the system going through the whole part of this travel and thought I’d share my impression of the speed and reliability of the service. This is my expressions:

A few times I’ve had to activate the modem — During the trip I had to activate at least twice from once city to the other but that created no major problems and took relatively short time to activate.
Got comparative speeds all on highway – This is due to distances and where the cellular towers are and how they respond to incoming and outgoing request. Although there were many hills it seemed to keep about the same all through the drive.
Connected until I got out of Coverage area — This was due to us traveling outside of the coverage area and ended my use of the modem, but until that time it seemed to be very good at keeping me up to date on current weather conditions and other important information during the drive.

Update 12/26/2008

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As you can see, On my way home, I decided to run the test to show you how different it can be on parts of the highway. These show you just how much of a difference you will experience on different areas of any given city. You see it all comes down to Hills and Valleys and also the location the tower. You will never be able to get the best speed possible while driving but you will of course be able to surf the web and check email. I also was able to use Twitter with this to test that feature out. It seemed to work well with Twitter web update with out much trouble. Please see below to see how you can get this service for yourself. If you like this service, please recommend my review to others so they can determine if this is available in there area. Please remember this will only work if you are in the coverage area. This was done on the way home once I got into the Cricket Service area and you can see what type of speeds I got.

To see my other review of this modem you can click here. I had problems with speed until after I did the activation of the modem the first time around. After I activated the modem, the speed really increased to what it should be. When it comes to the reliability of the modem and the ease of use, I’d give it a 4 out of 5 stars due to the problems and understanding of the problems associated with a broad band modem. I will for the time recommend this to friends and family because after the activation of the modem, I’ve had really good speeds and want to remind people that the modem is only as good as the source, so you must remember where the towers are to better help you get the speed you want.