http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22349293 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:10:34 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:10:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-23459411 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-23459411 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:27:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-23268468 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-23268468 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:55:19 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-equipment-needRe-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atla-23264547
The short of it is this, if you have good services with BS overall and it sounds like you do overall and don't need 4g around town keep it. My BS service is for total crap so I switched. Sounds like your paying ~50-60$ a month... there will be little difference for you on price. If your a heavy FPS gamer, keep what you got, or suffer at a minimum a 20% expansion of latency (ping times), it's the nature of the wireless beast, in my case it was about 30% and I have an above average signal.

Some of the details:
However you have options, you could go just wireless, just home, or get the combo deal. Let's just assume you get the combo deal for roughly the same price. Now you can either 'rent' the equipment or buy it, that's your call, but keep in mind at the moment your only options are their own equipment and the feature set is not great, but if your not a power user it may not matter to you, though if your here that's probably not true.

Let's just assume you buy the equipment
a - USB stick for the mobile service
b - Home router motorola cpe150 with clearwire approved firmware.

a - you would use on your laptop around town, or in theory at home, however unless you are real lucky getting a great signal outside of near your windows will be tough. The usb stick acts like a nic\router, and actually is a bit more configurable then the home device - or so I read here.

b- you place this bad boy near a windows or where ever you get good signal strength 4 bars or more out of 5, service will work well down to 3, and technically function around 2 - though I actually got service (barely though) with 1. It is a combo device that functions as the 'modem' and nating router\basic firewall, it has some real limitations around that, but if your not doing anything special behind your existing router you should be ok.

Currently there is no way to hook up an external antenna to the devices. Some people in weak signal area mount the device outside in some casing, very situation specific. Also if there a boat load of high tree's surrounding your property and your not close to the tower - do not expect great signal strength.

If you interested, have your local clear rep come out to your house (you don't have to just suggested) and do a basic survey, they'll measure signal reception outside, inside, etc, tell you roughly where your towers are,etc. Beat trial and error, though I insisted on doing it the hard way. ;)

Support - they try, like with BS or just about anyone these days your milage may vary, I've had 4-5 relatively useless but pleasant calls, though oddly enough last night via there website chat feature I actually got great support, and real anwsers that actually turn out to be the truth. (tower was down, they knew about it, knew why, gave me an eta that was valid, note the chat session was at 2am eastern)

My overall experience:
- first 45 days, simply AWESOME
I got on the service about 2 weeks before they officially were live in ATL was bursting down to 10\11mbp.

- next 45 days, bearable
Clearly alot of people signed up in my area, doesn't surprise me given BS's chitty service in our area (30044). Certain time of the day I get full service 6mb down .5 up (your package may include 1 up), peek evening times 6-11pm lucky to get a consistent 1-2.5mb, some nights are worse then others.

- Last 24 hours: Improved (but like when nobody was on yet), clearly they did some work overnight as support had informed me, still issues during peak, but I was able to pull a consistent 2-3mb during peak times, I can live that so long as it does not degrade, looking at my router also looks like another distant tower went active last night - probably taking some load of my closest one. We'll see.

I would recommend the service to those that have limited other options, or really need the 4g wireless around town(s) access, and who is not an avid FPS gamer.

/end book.



]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-equipment-needRe-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atla-23264547 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:58:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/equipment-needRe-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atla-23263512 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/equipment-needRe-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atla-23263512 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:57:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-23215301
I have the portable router, and it works very well. Has all the usual settings (interface looks like my DLINK router).

The home router is like any wifi router, except that it has a usb port that accepts 3G and Clear's 4G usb sticks. There's also a port l that accepts PC card based 3G.
»www.cradlepoint.com/products/mbr···s-router]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-23215301 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:09:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22813138
But it blocks loop-back connections, probably hard coded in the NAT module.

On the subject, how do I get the USB device to work correctly on WIN7 Ultimate 64?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22813138 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:21:09 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22812904
Simply "bridging out" your existing router is not a good solution for more serious networks. I spent a long time searching for a really secure and reliable router, and paid good money for it. I didn't do that just to take it out of the equation. More than that, my router is a load balancer with automatic failover, so Clear would have been one of two connections to the Internet. "Shorting out" my router in that scenario just doesn't fly. In fact, if you are going to do what you suggest, why wouldn't you simply remove your existing hardware and let the Clear gateway handle it all - that's pretty much what you are doing anyway.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22812904 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:45:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22812839
I got a survey from Clear which included a "what would you like to tell our CEO" question. I "told him" that the NAT being locked on had contributed to my cancellation.

With the USB device, indoor sensitivity is poor, and driving around with my laptop doing coverage checks, I find the coverage to be spotty and fairly limited.

I will say that (so far) they have been pretty pleasant and professional about the cancellation. Although it took some convincing to get them to understand that there isn't much that sending a "tech" to my house could do. What could he suggest that I hadn't tried? Relocating my wiring closet to my roof? Cutting down all my trees? Leveling off the top of the hill that is in the way of the LOS to the tower? Of course, we will see if they actually get it canceled and refund my money. If they do that right they will have a fan, even if it didn't meet my needs.

I'm sure less technically demanding folks will like it fine for fixed use if they have good signal. Can't say much positive about using it mobile in my area (N. Fulton). If I wanted to use them for that I would be sure to get the new combo device which includes support for Sprint EVDO as a backup.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22812839 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:36:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22800613 www.dd-wrt.com/) to allow them access.

Then you just handle DHCP, Address Reservation, and Port Forwarding through the Motorola modem.

I have mine set up that way, and my wireless devices, my Windows Home Server and everything else are quite happy with each other now. That's more than I can say with AT&T, my old provider.

Also, I actually am able to use my Windows Home Server remote access as well, which is a first. And very nice. :)

I'm still new to Clear, but the setup I just went through was pretty painless, and I'm not complaining. It's a bit slower than my DSL (maxing at 4 most time, versus 5-5.5 on DSL), but if it's more stable, I'll take it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22800613 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:19:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22766500
These damned CLEAR boxes are not configured to work as modems. They have NAT and routing enabled, and so your ROUTER does not get an external IP address.

What that means is any rules, routing, forwarding, etc; that you might have set up on your router has to be duplicated - unless you put the router in the DMZ, and that won't work 100% of the time...

BLEH!

Just got off the phone with their tech support, and they have no intention of changing this.... SO - I guess I test it for a couple more days, but if it's not a perfect feature for feature function for function replacement for Comcast (and it's not so far), it goes back to Best Buy.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22766500 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:16:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22755700
I am using the motorola cpei 25150 home modem and have tried it in every feasible place. I also get bad cell service inside the house so I believe that I am just down in a valley and will have to stick with the AT&T DSL 6mb which works great but I really wanted to look at a better alternative in the long run.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22755700 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:18:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22692323 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22692323 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:30:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22643819 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22643819 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:14:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22639727
$40 for 6mb home internet
$4.99 for modem lease
$1.15 tax]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22639727 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:18:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22611449 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22611449 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:34:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22597345 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22597345 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:28:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22597494
edit: forgot to mention that my college kid son uses our connection for x-box gaming.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22597494 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:25:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22594820 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22594820 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:24:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22593860
When I had my house built four years ago, I had two cat5 and two cat6 cables ran from every room to my basement. I also had two ran from the attic to the basement.

I moved the WiMax modem to my attic and got 5 bars so I connected all the cables from my office, to the basement, to the attic.

Just did a speed test again to Atlanta from the Speedtest.net website did alot better.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22593860 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:32:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22593131
Did a Speed test from Speakeasy in Atlanta and got 1417k down and 40k up. Tried again and got 1250 down and 42k up.

I knew I was on the fringe but was hoping I would have better results.

Any one in Suwanee or Buford/ Sugar Hill getting better signal?

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22593131 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:58:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta9-22581315 Got my equipment today (next day @ 12noon) Got home service with the motorola cpe/150 - purchased + 6mb/500k

Setup took 2 mintues + plus a little time finding best spot for strong signal. Get 2 bars just about anywhere in house, 3 at most outside walls downstairs and solid 3 near most outside walls upstairs, placed right up to the window gets me 4 bars in certain spots and I found a perfect little place on the top part of the lower pane to rest it on the side where it gets solid 4 and most of the time 5 bars fades more or less between high 4 and low 5 I guess.

speed test was 8-9mb down to atl, chicago, and dallas, 1.4-1.9 overseas to london. Upload was 500-600k to the above and 400k to london.

Ping times to atl, chic and dallas are NOT good, 115-150.. i can live with it for now, but I can't advise this for those that seriously game. The router's default password btw is motorola - course nothing documents that just found it by guessing. The feature are weak as hell... but the bare basics are there... port forwarding, basic fw (enable disable is only option wtf?), dhcp, dyndns,change internal lan network, and nice status screen. frankly I wish it just worked as raw modem so I could use a more powerful device behind it ... oh well homefully in the future they will make updated firmware available.

Given the problems I've had with comcast and bellsouth (who I will be keeping as a low speed backup - can't be down as I work from home) I'm fairly happy so far, the ping times suck but it's wimax so I'll deal and for work purposes so long as I have a reliable constant connection in the range of at least 3mb/500k and 125 pings I'll do me nice.

Really really wish they provided a raw modem option which I think they did in the past... don't get me wrong for the average joe it's nice simple little setup..

Lingering question... what happens to performance and service as they grow, the lack of support after 10pm isn't really cool either that will need to change in the longer term.

Well that's my 2cents on day number one with this service, fairly pleased and can't wait to tell comcast to f__k off (my service has been up and down for months at time and those jackles can't figure it out. they were my primary with BS as a backup, CW will be my new primary with BS remaining as a backup - it functions but barely at 1mb and 200k... )

So out of 5 stars I would give it 4 (pings + router drag it down a bit), but not bad for 35$ activation with no contract + 40$ a month. (I chose to by the router for like 75$)

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta9-22581315 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:26:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22551018
Clear Kevin here. Our coverage maps are very accurate but not perfectly accurate. There are occasionally situations where we have many square miles of coverage interspersed with the occasional "blind spot." This can be due to elevation, heavy foliage, and strong electromagnetic interference (such as that caused by an airport or military base).

These areas are dynamic and difficult to track in real-time graphics. So instead, we use the pre-qualification tool that you utilized on the website as a more accurate indicator of coverage. The pre-qualification tool is updated constantly and includes data based on local network augmentation and notes from our field technicians.

If you have any more questions, please let me know!

Thanks,

Clear Kevin out.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22551018 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:29:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22550956
This is Kevin with Clearwire Support.

Glad things are working out for you so far. Remember, if you do ever notice speed degradation, please let us know by calling 888-888-3113.

We're more than happy to assist!

Clear Kevin out.
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22550956 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:14:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22529589 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22529589 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:59:19 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22503023 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22503023 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:23:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22489102
I've posted more info over HERE (»www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/mobile-···nta.html).

Get it!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22489102 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:22:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22450770
Question - has anyone tried and succeeded connecting from a remote location to an machine on a Clearwire connection ?
So far I am having no luck and their "live chat" help did nothing just paste the FAQ's at me.

Thanks

UPDATE: the modem does have port forwarding so if like me you need to make an inbound connection from off-site - you will need to access the moden to allow the ports]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22450770 Wed, 27 May 2009 10:09:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22409972
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22409972 Tue, 19 May 2009 08:28:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22349293 »www.wimax.com/commentary/blog/bl···nta-0506]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Clear-WiMax-Service-Now-Available-in-Atlanta-22349293 Wed, 06 May 2009 15:22:17 EDT