| reply to RvLeshrac
Re: [General] Does Clearwire Have a 5 GB Cap (or any cap)? We've been banging ours sometimes for 10GB/day but nobody has said anything. Once I started getting better DL speeds (gone from 1-3Mbps to 6-9Mbps) we were hogging it up even less.
But after a while, you get caught up and then it's not a whole lot anymore. It's really hard to eat up that amount of bandwidth with only streaming (even if it's HD video) on a single device. Sometimes I can fill the pipe up if it's not running smoothly (less and less often these days, good job Clear!) but as far as overall mass of data transfer per month, it's not happening casually...you have to try to use that much or have a lot of automation that does it for you.
Of course, they make it all too easy to run multiple devices since they have DCHP and NAT turned on for you. Get a switch or WiFi AP...again, most people aren't going to be doing that on all their devices all the time, simultaneously.
What will put it to the test is not voice but when they decide to implement any sort of real internet subscription TV/radio (or more generically, "content") strategy...then people will be streaming constantly, from (many) multiple devices, at any time of day, and that's not even taking into account that at some point TV will get even more interactive...which means heavier upstream traffic... |
