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Alright, I’m fed up with this god damn service!

I have called ‘tech support’ many times and heard all kinds of crazy stories & ideas on how to fix my connection issues including but not limited to:

- Duct tape modem to window
- ‘Your modem is connecting to a tower across the lake when your surrounded by them’..
- ‘We know it’s slow’
- Youtube is not considered ‘normal internet use’

This bullshit is coming from a company that pitches ‘go beyond 3g’ on their billboards. If anyone wants proof t-mobile’s 3g on a wifi tether is faster then this feel free to drop a comment, but rest assured it kills it.

Clearwire reps/tech support also admit that it is slow and much slower then T-Mobile’s 3g. They make claims about Wi-Max but I doubt that service will be better. Not to mention it hasn’t rolled out yet.

Let’s just see the average day on clearwire’s speedtest:

Which is about 1/3 the speed of decent dial up. Ugh.

This is with 5 out of 5 bars on the modem by the way. And this is on a day when the internet service itself actually works, outages are regular occurrences. I’m also on my second modem, due to the other one completely failing to connect _at_all_ after several months of use.

I have NEVER received the ‘1.5′ mbps of speed my service plan dictates. Yesterday, a 10mb download ended up taking 2 hours.

This is, without a doubt, the worst internet service I’ve ever used.

Edit:

So I decided to speedtest T-Mobile’s 3g to compare. A couple things first:

- Contrary to the image, I am not in kansas.
- The ping time went down about 200ms on average after I did this test.
- This is the WORST it has ever been (Tethered 3g), although it still kills clearwire it’s not SUPER fast.

The proof is in the pudding here.

Edit Again:

So about a day after posting this (19 hours), my internet speed suddenly increased beyond anything it has before. Ever in 2 years of having it:

I also noticed the amount of bars went from 5 to 3, and the speed increased significantly. Meaning the tower I was connected to changed, although the positioning of the modem did not. I find it a bit odd that the time I get the fastest internet I have had comes a day after posting this, but that’s a bit I’m not going to touch on.

Ciao,
Gray

In honor of my new G1 I purchased today, I’m showing off the development on Tunebin/Axcid Mobile.

The application is called Tunr. So far it’s bug_free and supports Tunebin Playlists & XSPF Playlists.

When I am done, it will be available on the Android Market, free of charge.

At the moment I’m writing my Media Services background service, the app will use it for playing songs, and it will of course support multitasking, so you can listen to your playlist whatever your doing.

Tunr supports(/will support) searching for songs via Axcid, it supports live music archive / Axcid search.

Downloading support will also be implemented sometime in the near future. I don’t have a ton of time to work on this due to paying jobs, but it will get done, don’t worry.

Hopefully in a couple days, I’ll get an SVN up for the packages:
org.graysblog.tunebin
org.graysblog.xspf
org.graysblog.http

so basic xspf playback can be implemented before the whole app is done. (Because who actually pays attention in class when there is 3g and music..),