said by ydoucare:said by ninjatutle:What the heck?
"I just spent 50 minutes on the phone trying to cancel Clearwire. I had it for a month and it never worked and they spent hours trying to fix it and they still want $400 bucks to get rid of it."
"Clearwire caps everything. cant get a decent download speed even when they haven’t throttled me. Whenever i use more than like a gig of bandwidth in one or two days, they throttle my speeds to 300-500 kbps for a frickin week. They’re customer support techs are pretty cool, but they cant do crap to help you. I hate it. I had no clue when I signed up that i wasn’t actually gonna be able to USE my bandwidth, i mean, sheesh, why would I pay for bandwidth and then actually use it!? Wtf. I dont have the money to cancel, and im getting capped every other week. do you know what its like trying to play xbox live on 400k? Yeah. Doesn’t work that well."
This person sounds like they have no clue wtf they are talking about, especially in regards to playing xbox live (or any online game), which has very little to do with bandwidth and mostly to do with latency. 400 k is more than enough for online gaming. Latency over most wireless connections, however, usually exhibits some latency jitter that causes issues with gaming.
With Xbox Live, 400kbs doesn't work very well with some games. Halo3 for instance. On my girlfriends 768kbs DSL connection, Halo3 won't work since there is too much lag. With Unreal Tournament 3, I can't tell the difference bewteen playing on her 768kbs connection or my 50mbs FIOS connection. It plays smoothly with either one.
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