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Description: Sprint offers a way to sign up for Earthlink for $19.95 a month, two dollars a month cheaper than Earthlink�s own price but without any of the substantial moneysaving signup specials that you will find on the Earthlink site. The two-dollar a month bargain works out to your advantage over Earthlink�s intro package after about your third year in, providing of course that there�s no price change.

Reviews (5):

I love Sprint Wireless Card!!!
Reviewer: BigRooster 05-07-2007
Sprint has the best laptop wireless card I seen. Great uptime and works almost anywhere.

For mobile professionals, Sprint Mobile Broadband offe
Reviewer: BigRooster 03-21-2007
The good: Sprint's Mobile Broadband service gives you relatively fast throughput anywhere within the carrier's growing coverage area.

The bad: Compared to landline broadband services such as cable and DSL, Sprint Mobile Broadband is relatively pricey, and it isn't available in all areas.

Still the best value for the money
Reviewer: Anonymous Chicago,Cook,IL 03-21-2007
Sprint Broadband Direct was ordered today 04/03/01, will be installed on 04/17/01.

On 4/17/01 Sprint tech arrived at 2:15pm, 3 hours later the service was up and
running. This tech knew just what he was doing. Speed test from Linkline at
11:28pm was 1.086Mbps down/216Kbps up not bad for 49 bucks. We shall see
if it remains like this for a while. Megapath speed test at 11:38pm was 1.262Mbps
down/213Kbps up. This is all good. I am not using their mail servers or DNS servers at all for now. All most as good as ADSL service but not even close to
SDSL service.

On 4/19/01 service is still running great, upload speeds and down load speeds are still the same. Now if they could just get the up load speed up some more that would be a good thing.

7/21/01 Well 90 days later still going strong, for 50 bucks not bad at all.

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7/28/2003 We now have 4 ip's so our cost has gone up but for the money
it is worth it. The upload speed stills sucks, we have been down only
once in 2 years for about 2 hours due to network/modem problems.

7/16/2004 We now have three ip's & have not been down at all for all most
a year. The max speed has topped out at 7.6MB at 2:AM & the slowest
speed has been around 700K at 1:PM very bad day all day. For the money
this has been the best broadband connection we have ever seen. It is still
twice as fast as cable & 3 times faster than dsl without the distance limits.
We are looking forward to see what Sprint Broadband Direct will replace
this service with, I have been told the new service will have a upload speed
of 900k. Can't wait for that.

08/06/2004 Another bad day for Sprint Broadband speed test came in at
800K down & 12.8K up. Will run another speed test at 9:PM today.

08/17/2004 Micro outages have been a major problem for the last 3 hours.
Problems started at 6:PM & is still going on at 9:32PM, this my third attempt
to finished this review.

08/31/2004 Modem needed adjustments up/down speeds went in the toliet &
that lasted all day until 7:05PM.

09/07/2004 New modem was installed, everything is back to normal.

09/13/2004 New top speed test record, from my dish to Sears Tower was 14.5MB
that is twice as fast as the top speed test for last year was 7.2MB.

09/14/2004 The service is running good today, but it is very bursty & all large downloads/uploads starts off very fast then slows down. Adverage upload
speed is 120k & download speed is 2.5MB.

09/21/2004 Sprint BBD service has been running great since they installed the
new modem.

09/27/2004 Sprint BBD service still running just fine for now.

10/05/2004 Bad day for Sprint BBD speed test from DSL Reports is at
96K up & 600K down, also Sprint BBD speed test from Sears Tower is
at 919K down. Service not working to good today.

10/05/2004 Things are getting worse, 3 hours later the numbers are slowing
down even more. New download speed is 486K & upload speed is 144K.
I did not check Sears Tower speed. Today's service is now the pits.

10/27/2004 Speed test to Sears Tower did not work, had to call TS & they
needed to reset the connection. Sears Tower test over 5MB's, things are
back to normal.

01/04/2005 Service is still running normal for now. When is the new wireless system coming out that is the question?

We added AT&T VoIP service to this connection & so far no problems with it at all.

04/20/05 Speed test from NAC was 2239 down & 138 Up not bad for 8:30AM.
Speed test from Sears Tower was 2207 down, this is a bit slow.

05/01/2005 Micro outages are becoming a small problem everyday,
outlook express hangs up a little to often & our network monitoring
server sends us an email at least once a day to say connection down.
Our AT&T VoIP service has cut us off while we were on it due to the
micro outages.

05/30/2005 As of 7:PM to 9:PM the micro outages have keep us offline 80%
of that time & tech support is closed for the holiday.

07/05/2005 Sprint Broadband Direct's web site is back selling the service & they
are taking orders now. Micro outages has not been a problem since 05/30 but
overall download speed has dropped too 1.9MB from 3.2MB.

09/11/2005 Sprint's download speed has been sitting around 2.8MB & the upload
speed is still at 120K.

10/08/2005 Sprint has been having issues now for 5 hours. These micro outages
have been a major problem today & things are so bad we can't even check our
email accounts. We have called TS & they are working on the problem but have
no idea when the problem will be fixed.

10/08/2005 Sprint has now fixed the problems that has made their system
useless for most of the day. From 10:AM to 4:PM the service was very
unreliable & all VoIP calls have been dropping out or not connecting at all.

10/08/2005 Here are our speed test for today. Upload speed still sucks.

2005-10-08 18:00:00 Speed test @ ec 2288/139 kbps
2005-10-08 17:58:27 Speed test @ dslreports.linkline.com 1659/97 kbps
2005-10-08 17:56:46 Speed test @ dslr-west1.megapath.net 1579/97 kbps

07/07/2006 Connections are going into the toliet everyday at peek times.
Upload speeds are crazy I have topped out at 32k but now I am back at 97k
that still sucks. Download speed is still around 2500k I have seen better when
the service was first installed & one test from Sears tower to me was at 14,000k.
Now if I could get that at peek time I really would be happy with the service. Where
is Verizon Fios when you need them???

07/25/06 Micro outages happen every 48 hours or so, we ran a test web radio stream from the connection & the connection is not stable too do that at all. Connection speeds are about the same down is ok up still sucks.

02/03/2007 Service has gone down a bit.

PBX VoIP service has problems with the Sprint Broadband Direct service.
Conference calls can't be maintained for long without serious breakup in
the call.

With DSL & Cable services far faster than the 2MB's download speeds we
are getting now it is time to think about a change.

Only Use this One is it is the ONLY Choice.
Reviewer: Anonymous Tucson,Pima,AZ 03-21-2007
After a Complete disaster with COVAD, 5 Years ago, [Qwest and Covad were a very bad pair for SDSL especially in Tucson, AZ], I ordered Sprint Broadband. It was delivered and installed in about 30 days.

There were the numerous outages and high latency as Sprint Broadband, added more clients to their service base and disconnected The Huges TV network that was purchased to roll into their new wireless service.

Trouble Tickets averaged every 1.5 weeks causing extreme stress and poor /unacceptable performance.

I was a pretty smooth ride after the 1st year and a half of pain, service was better, better speed, however the higher than normal latency (for wireless) was and still remains an issue and makes the service inconsistent.

Beginning this year 2005 in April or so, Sprint Started selling more clients, ever since that the service has become impossible, with outages occurring daily at peak periods, performace has dropped to less than dialup during these periods, on site service takes about a week to respond.

For a speed review checkout the most recent activity at dslreports.com

Please let me know if you are in the Tucson Area or are having similar issues with Sprint Broadband.

Great when on the road
Reviewer: Anonymous Los Angeles,CA 02-24-2007
This is an great way to get online and do things when your always on the road. They have nice prices and also good uptime anywhere in the US.

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