webConnect for home internet

**chall50** · 01-31-2011, 08:00 AM

I live in Orangeburg SC...29118. I have no Idea what a PPC website is..?? Maybe u can put the website in for me and I can click on it..sorry for any inconvenience..It looks to me they could have looked this up at the store when I purchased the Rocket to make sure I would get good service in my area...Slack A++ People if you ask me..they were just looking to make a sale. So what are my options to make a report with the BBB. Or to try again at the store? I have tried twice and they keep giving me the same song and dance..Thanks for all your information and trying to help me..

**brad15** · 01-31-2011, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by chall50

I live in Orangeburg SC...29118. I have no Idea what a PPC website is..?? Maybe u can put the website in for me and I can click on it..sorry for any inconvenience..It looks to me they could have looked this up at the store when I purchased the Rocket to make sure I would get good service in my area...Slack A++ People if you ask me..they were just looking to make a sale. So what are my options to make a report with the BBB. Or to try again at the store? I have tried twice and they keep giving me the same song and dance..Thanks for all your information and trying to help me..

Well go to t-mobile.com/pcc and see what it pulls up

i have a friend who works for T here and he was saying something about them really starting to push the mobile broadband all of a sudden, so i think you may have just gotten a rep that was under pressure to hit a goal or something

when i pull your zip up in that tool, all is see is EDGE/2G coverage, that webstick would not work that well for you anyway based off what the map is showing

**E_tron** · 01-31-2011, 02:04 PM

I'd only recommend Webconnect for home internet if and only if your only other internet option is Dial-up. T-mobile gags 4G speeds after the first 5GB of transfer. Any DSL service will have caps well exceeding 5GB.

You may be in a 2G GSM/GPRS coverage zone (t-mobile hides that information). GPRS is about the speed of dialup. GSM/EDGE is usually 3 times faster.

Around rural East Texas, I recommend CellOneET air cards to people without hopes of DSL from the phone company. http://celloneet.com/features/ . For 40/month, they really deliver ~200kbps down / 50kbps up ~300ms latency with their GSM/EDGE network most everywhere on their network, as fast as EDGE gets. That includes a real IP address to. I only see slower EDGE speeds in large towns.

**chall50** · 02-01-2011, 07:51 AM

Well I tried last night to get out of this plan and just told me flat out to bad..if I did chose to end the plan they would charge me an early disconnection fee of 200.00. I had to wait for another tower..there tech support said more towers were coming soon and they didn't give a date..well It could take them a year or two or maybe even never and Im stuck unless I want to pay 200.00..disconnect fee..sucks..T-MOBILE Sucks...I did find a plan with Sprint that promises me 3G or 4G, 3G being limited to 5g and 4g unlimited access..but I live in the 3g area..for 59.99mth..and they assured me that I would get 4bars of service..Right now with T=Mobile when I open the usage window its registering GPRS/EDGE...What ever that means..It's slow as Christmas...The agent just wanted to make a sale and he found his mark...I wont be so gullible next time..At this pt I am ready to give this thing back no matter what the consequences are. Thanks all for all ur help...Suffering in South Carolina...

**srosenbaum** · 02-01-2011, 09:36 AM

When checking other plans, be sure to ask whether your speed gets throttled down when you hit the 5GB limit. Virgin Mobile says Unlimited but starting 2/15/11 they will slow your speed when 5GB is reached. T-Mobile slows you to 55K when the 5 GB max is reached. All throttle back up to normal speeds when the new billing cycle starts. Also be sure any plan you try has a 30 day money back guarantee so you can check the speed where you live and not use the maps, which from my experience mean little.