ricep5
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join:2000-08-07
Jacksonville, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·VoicePulse
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
| Not WiMax
Clearwire is leasing frequencies that were allocated by the FCC for educational use to the public school districts. In return for leasing the spectrum, they typically provide free broadband back to the school districts they lease it from.
Clearwire uses technology developed by NextNet which is now owned by Motorola.
To my knowledge, none of this stuff uses any draft IEEE specs for WiMax. Motorola calls it "WiMax Class" performance. Which in translation from marketing speak means, "works like, but isn't"
I used Clearwire when they launched. It worked great for awhile, but I can tell you which day they implemented packet shaping and soon the service became worthless from 3PM until about 10PM as it became oversubscribed. I moved them into a secondary WAN role and terminated the service on Day 364 of the contract.
The antenna must be on the second floor of your residence or in your attic if you don't have one, or the service will degrade, especially on rainy days. If you have alot of trees between the antenna and the transmitter, this can also degrade performance.
For the casual internet user it works fine. For any power users, I would look elsewhere. |
