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Review by PamelaTS See Profile

  • Location: Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
  • Cost: $52 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 3 days
When Moving the home modem is all you have to move and the service moves with you
Much higher latency than I expected, FAR short of the UPTO claimed max speed
I will likely take advantage of the $15 p/m intro for two months and switch to Cable ugh
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See my newer CLEAR review; post moving.

I admit I was skeptical going into this. Had been an SBC DSL customer for near on 10 years. The recent rate increase they were putting forward were the last straw.

Information on installation is EXTREMELY spartan. Had to call tech support just to initialize the account. I understand green means saving paper there comes a point when taking it to such extreme is just ridiculous. No where was there any indication what to do setting up my third party router? is this a DHCP setup, or what?

I was supposed to see 6m down and 1m up. I see anywhere from 1.2 - 4.5mb down very inconsistent and the best up I've seen is low 600kb (very briefly). Based on wireless I anticipated higher latency SBC/AT&T I saw 16-19, latency on Clear is 64-97. Pingtest.net scored it a D, before it got blocked!

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Called to cancel, gawd I wanted this to work well. It does work the latency is really high though. The initial sales rep was attempting to use high pressure which I did resist. The second rep I talked to was better, yet it would seem still dishonest. This morning the best rates I could get where under 2.75M down and barely over 500K up.

Customer service wanted to con me into waiting and trying other things with tech support so that my 7 day trial would evaporate. I'm hip to their high pressure BS.

I'm sure that if they would invest in rural towers where DSL is not and cable maybe then this could potentially be a viable option. In the city though where ROCK solid performance by DSL VDSL and even cable exist this is NOT a credible, economical option.

Want a laugh they actually expect you to believe they are gonna run a reliable VOIP service on this shaky connection, and sales was Oh yeah you can send/receive the occasional fax over VOIP. Sales said affirming oh yeah no problem, LOL! No, I didn't try the VOIP add on wanted to see a solid ISP first. There is no way a reliable VOIP is gonna run on the wild roller coaster connection, much less FAX over it.

Not happening, don't believe it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8-17-2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ok, I moved a slight distance (3 blocks) had issues with AT&T no longer could get the elite tier. TWC had a wiring issue in the building which I wasn't going to pay for.

Giving Clear a second chance a friend informed me since I first tried them they had improved. I did not want a 2 year contract but that what the jerk gave me, Tha'ts ok, that Ccard expires soon I'll use that and the issues I been having since to renegotiate. Oh second tier tech support determined the modem was bad (flaky) expecting a new one today.

Still no way in hell they gonna run stable voice/phone on this and I'm only 5 minutes from downtown Dallas, Parkland Hospital and Love Field airport This is not a REMOTE area just blocks from I-35 the Dallas North Tollway and a mile from North Central expressway

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PamelaTS
Digital Chick
join:2004-04-20
Dallas, TX

PamelaTS

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Nope changed my mind,

Canceling and sending this back today

RussZ
@clearwire-wmx.net

RussZ

Anon

Re: Nope changed my mind,

Sad. Mine has worked so far so good. I have occasions it does go down to 1 bar now due to a tower being worked on locally, but the first two days I had 4-5 lights and 12mb down 1meg up. Fast speeds. Even with 2-3 bars I see 5-6 meg down. Their customer service has been great. It sounds like you were expecting more. This is wireless, and you have to be flexible. When you get a mobile card and home card I am fine with it. I can still play games just fine and the ping is around 100 in games which is normal.

PamelaTS
Digital Chick
join:2004-04-20
Dallas, TX

PamelaTS

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Dropping off the Clear Modem

The UPS store guy says a lot of people in the area are canceling sending this Wi-Crap back. fyi. less than three miles from downtown, no high rises around, and fronts the North Dallas Tollway. Prime area should-a been great. Oh yeah 4-5 bars.

hfwjim
@atmosenergy.com

hfwjim

Anon

NO: UNLESS LINE OF SIGHT

If you can see the tower, Clear may work. I live one short block over, and one long block down from the Clear tower, and I cannot get 1 bar in my place because I cannot "see" the tower. It really does have to be in your line of sight. Clears return policy is UPS only, you cant take the modem back to any Clear store...and then the phone calls to stop the billing; too much of a hassle.
Listen to me Clear, we want you to work, but if you don't push enough juice through your transmitter, then you have what you have.
Good Grief

PamelaTS
Digital Chick
join:2004-04-20
Dallas, TX
Asus RT-AC66
HTC 5G Hub

PamelaTS

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Moved again...

Ok moved again several miles out from town, old hood got to dangerous.

New address is a different Clear experience it's blazing fast constant 5 bars. Signal strength isn't everything I think some areas they have crap equipment lower throughput just to put folks off.