The Clear WiMax service is fast in areas where the signal is strong. WiMax will be a viable alternative when/if Clear can afford to install more transmission equipment. For the moment, the cell phone companies have a big advantage in installed base. This makes their service close to ubiquitous, while WiMax is spotty. This is particularly true inside large buildings.
John Morris
· 1 month ago
So how do they define 'Unlimited' Internet? Is it 10's of GB like AT&T's DSL service or 1 or 2GB like most cell carriers?
Brad Linder
· 1 month ago
Neither. It's unlimited. They also have cheaper plans that do have caps. But the plan I'm on is capless.
John Morris
· 1 month ago
I guess if they list caps on the other plans that would really make it extra hard for them to weasel out later. Excellent. Of course the odds of them making it far enough out into flyover country where I'm at before they wise up and stop offering unlimited contracts is pretty much zero. :(
Of course there are the other questions you have to ask these days about Internet service. Do they offer static IP? How many ports do they block?
Brad Linder
· 1 month ago
Not sure about ports, but you have to pay $10/month extra for a static IP.
markntravis
· 1 month ago
No FiOS in your area?
Brad Linder
· 1 month ago
It is in Philly, but I'm not sure if it's available on my block. More importantly, it's pretty expensive if you don't sign up for TV and/or phone service too and we do over the air TV and don't have a landline. So we're on DSL for now which is the cheapest broadband option, but pretty reliable overall.
If CLEAR performs well over the next few months I might cancel the Verizon line though, as $50 for home *and* mobile broadband is an even better deal.
Matt
· 1 month ago
I recently ordered an Intel Wimax 5350 mini-pcie card for my little Aspire One, to replace that horrendous Atheros one. Aside from Draft N speeds, I can't wait to test Sprint's Wimax coverage here in Boston whenever it officially rolls out next year.
DougC3
· 1 month ago
This sounds very promising and enviable. I was pining for WiMAX a few years ago, but finally gave up after realizing it might be decades before it gets to Alabama, which is sub-flyover-land, unless flying from Atlanta to New Orleans or Dallas-Fort Worth counts (not to say that we don't produce a lot of technological firsts here).
Compared to my Comcast cable broadband, your laptop 4G is more or less free. The cable is much faster, but the I think the WiMAX will undoubedly speed up.
Brad Linder
· 1 month ago
Yeah, technically it's not any faster than my Verizon DSL at the moment. But the fact that I can get mobile and home broadband for just a few bucks more than I'm already paying made it too good a deal to pass up. The promotion will probably end soon and the price will jump up to $65 for the deal I have... until another promotion comes along. But I signed up partly because I'm locked in at this rate "for life," whatever that means. :)
DougC3
· 1 month ago
Too bad dongles are one of the few things where men think a smaller one is better ;)
briank66
· 1 month ago
I tried signing up for the $50 plan Unlimited 2, home internet and voice, through the Clear.com website. I call customer service three times to confirm the $50 plan but each time they didn't know what I was talking about. It took a day for the account to be activated on their Clear 360 system when I logged in I found I was being charged $57.50 not $50. So I call Clear and canceled the service and returned the modem and Voip device. Clear is new to my area in Philadelphia, and I just don't trust them. So I'm doing a wait and see.
Also I don't understand the 7 days why don't they offer 30 days.
Austin Nukemdomis
· 1 month ago
Nice pics! I like how they sent you everything in one box.
Over here in Las Vegas my experiences so far have been very close to yours.
To help explain, I posted a few pictures of Clear WiMAX towers, networking devices, and screen shot examples on my Clear help tips page.
I can't get more then 1-2 bars with my WiMAX modem in my apartment no matter where I move it around me. I'm on my first day and already thinking of canceling.
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the plan I'm on is capless.
Of course there are the other questions you have to ask these days about Internet service. Do they offer static IP? How many ports do they block?
If CLEAR performs well over the next few months I might cancel the Verizon line though, as $50 for home *and* mobile broadband is an even better deal.
Compared to my Comcast cable broadband, your laptop 4G is more or less free. The cable is much faster, but the I think the WiMAX will undoubedly speed up.
the fact that I can get mobile and home broadband for just a few bucks more
than I'm already paying made it too good a deal to pass up. The promotion
will probably end soon and the price will jump up to $65 for the deal I
have... until another promotion comes along. But I signed up partly because
I'm locked in at this rate "for life," whatever that means. :)
Also I don't understand the 7 days why don't they offer 30 days.
Over here in Las Vegas my experiences so far have been very close to yours.
To help explain, I posted a few pictures of Clear WiMAX towers, networking devices, and screen shot examples on my Clear help tips page.
http://www.acreativedesktop.com/clear-high-spee...