A friend is letting me use his cricket broadband. When i first started using it me and my brother could both play Combat Arms simultaneous (an online game that lags a bit)( we were sharing the same connection) with little to or no lag. My brother was also downloading at 150+Kbs and it was while we were playing Combat arms with like no lag at all. after playing combat arms for about 10 hours while downloading. i went to bed and let my computer download while i was asleep when i awoke the download had gotten about 1% more. My other family members were using the cricket when i awoke and my brothers downloads was the same as mine. When we tried to download now we get 5-9kbs( INSANELY slow) and i cant play Combat arms even by myself now.
i had changed nothing from when i went to sleep and was going full speed till i awoke and couldn’t even load simple webpages
i have tried everything i have ever heard of( except hitting it with a hammer….)
and i will list what i can remember i have tried
Ccleaner cleaned( Dns cache,temporary internet files,all unneeded junk) and wiped all free space
Defragged,changed and tested every setting in the properties ( i hope i didn’t miss even one setting combination ……)
I went to a McDonald’s and their internet is still high speed same as before i even heard about
cricket.
I checked my bandwidth on a website i think is called (ispeedmeter)and the it said 53kbs-ish and a download speed of 5-9kbs. Exactly what it currently is.
i have uninstalled like every stupid program
i have messed with all the internet options and troubleshooted like 1 million times
i have fully updated the cricket
I have tried on 3 different computers
I haven’t checked for viruses because virus software is about 100+megabytes and at speeds the cricket now does it would take a long long time
I haven’t called cricket support because i don’t have a phone but i did look at their FAQs and they said nothing about slow connection.
its a USB Cricket Broadband
My question is what can i do to fix my connection or what is the problem maybe i have a setting that is set wrong? or maybe cricket is being stupid and everyone is slow? or maybe its broken because u are not suppose to play on it for 10+hours? maybe Cricket accidentally gave me very good signal and now they fixed it and cricket is normally suppose to be 53kbs and downloads of 5-9kbs? if u can answer one of these question then answer at least that one. I want a quick fix. but.. idk what the problem is
I think most likely that one setting is set wrong but idk which setting(s)
Im going to list my settings and if u know how they should be set for best signal then can u list what they should be set too.even if the problem has nothing to do with the settings i would like to know what the setting should be set too. If a setting is set wrong it is because family members mess with the setting because they cant get it to work when i was sleeping.
( i don’t understand like 90% of these settings… Explanation would be nice < .< , but not required QQ)
General Tab
Connect using;
Modem – Cricket EVDO Modem (COM3)
configure…
maximum speed Bps: 921600
Modem protocol (not changeable)
hardware features
Enable Hardware flow control (Checked)
Enable Modem error control (Checked)
Enable Modem compression (Checked)( if this is checked all of the hardware features must be Checked)
Enable Modem Speaker (checked)
Phone number#777
Use dialing rules (unchecked)
Options Tab
display progress while connection (checked)
prompt for name (unchecked)
include windows logon domain (unchecked)
prompt for phone number (unchecked)
(even when i connect by manually typing in my name and password it still doesn’t go faster and i connect pretty fast, connect as fast as when i had good speeds)
Redialing options
attempts: 3
time between redial attempts: 1 minute
idle time before hanging up: never
idle threshold (unchangeable)
Redial if line is dropped (unchecked)
PPP settings…
Enable LCP extensions (checked)
Enable software compression (checked)
Negotiate multi-link for a single-link connection (checked)
Security
Data encryption: No encryption allowed or ( server will disconnect if Requires encryption)
Optional or Require or Maximum strength
(I have changed this to all of the settings and none have done Helped but, required wouldn’t let me connect to cricket)
Allow these protocols (checked)
(checked) unencrypted password (PAP)
(checked) Challenge Handshake authentication Protocol (CHAP)
(checked) Microsoft CHAP version 2 (MS-CHAP v2)
(unchecked) Automatically use my windows logon name and password (and domain, if any)
I dont have any more room to type b4 yahoo answers says i have used too many characters.. maybe you can figure it out with what i have told you already
-_- ………………… a real answer plz?
yahoo answers put the question in this category…( i forgot set the category to computer and internet.. i reposted there now)
zulenka. that might be true for some ppl but, he got it a week ago, not last year.
Im just reminding all of you, but its on 3 different computers. and ccleaner removes all of the browsing history and i have no add ons.
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