Virgin Mobile Mobil Hot Spot(Rant)

[Bob Landry]

I seldom go off on a rant about a shoddy service, but this one is so bad, I just couldn't stop once I started thing about it.
This is the poorest wireless service of any type that I have ever had and the finest example of a company that just cobbled something together to get into a market that I have even encountered. Their Unlimited Plan for $50 a month seems like a great deal on the surface, but it all ends there. After a couple of minutes online, your connection is throttled to the point where it can take 30 seconds or up to minutes for a single page to load in your browser. Some pages simply will not load at all. I tried to get the Weather Channel site to load for 20 minutes and finally just gave up.
A few minutes ago I was typing a response to a post on this site and the echo returned as I was typing looked like a 4th grade kid doing hunt & peck on a typewriter.
As soon as I get home from this trip, this piece of garbage goes away and I go to Verizon or somewhere that will give me what they advertise and what I pay for.
At this point, I'm curious if it's just me or has anyone else used this Hot spot service and obtained better results. I would really like to know.