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Root since installing icarus 1.1 mod, tethered internet has slowed

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lumberjack_ian

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so i've got the phone running great, but it seems like ever since i modded the phone my tethering services have been about a quarter as fast as they used to be... not that i'm getting blazing fast speeds (i kind of live out in the sticks) but it WAS better than a dial up connection (which i don't even have a landline to hook up to) and essentially free since we are already paying for the phones services.... was getting about 400-500 kbps, now its hovers around 100 kbps and sometimes gets up to 200, but rarely and its never sustained.

i use both easytether and wifi tether, just downloaded barnacle and will give that a try.

now i know cricket has like a 1 gig cap for downloaded info but i don't -think- that i've gone over that, and if i have, i'm not sure how to check.

this is my first post after lurking for a bit, the info from some people on this site is great. thanks for your input in advance.
 
lumberjack_ian said:
so i've got the phone running great, but it seems like ever since i modded the phone my tethering services have been about a quarter as fast as they used to be... not that i'm getting blazing fast speeds (i kind of live out in the sticks) but it WAS better than a dial up connection (which i don't even have a landline to hook up to) and essentially free since we are already paying for the phones services.... was getting about 400-500 kbps, now its hovers around 100 kbps and sometimes gets up to 200, but rarely and its never sustained.

i use both easytether and wifi tether, just downloaded barnacle and will give that a try.

now i know cricket has like a 1 gig cap for downloaded info but i don't -think- that i've gone over that, and if i have, i'm not sure how to check.

this is my first post after lurking for a bit, the info from some people on this site is great. thanks for your input in advance.
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Is it possible your tethering might have blown the cap? I just don't see Icarus as the problem. X.x
 
a power outage took out a comp and i had to reinstall a dated version of ubuntu 10.10 and the updates and all were probably about 400MB

so i'm thinking i hit the cap...
anyone w/ cricket know how to check their current data usage? or is that not quite possible?

thanks...
 
lumberjack_ian said:
a power outage took out a comp and i had to reinstall a dated version of ubuntu 10.10 and the updates and all were probably about 400MB

so i'm thinking i hit the cap...
anyone w/ cricket know how to check their current data usage? or is that not quite possible?

thanks...
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Go to the cricket web site and sign up for "my account". Then when you sign in to your account, there will be a data usage option on the right side of the screen.
 
Here's my usage and my data speeds have always been consistent:


Estimated Usage History Date Estimated Usage
October, 2010 0.540 GB
November, 2010 1.282 GB
December, 2010 0.863 GB
January, 2011 0.603 GB
February, 2011 0.646 GB
March, 2011 0.835 GB
 
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