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scottdls
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Flower Mound, TX

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Clearwire in Dallas/Fort Worth area

I live in a Dallas "ex-urb". Saw Clearwire at local Best Buy recently. Now I know what it is. So I can't see how they missed this external antenna issue. It's hot as blazes here in Texas and in the last 5 years almost everybody has put solar screens and more commonly aluminum film on their sun facing windows. Lately with power going to 13-14 cents/KW people are adding metallic spray and roll reflective coatings to the attic. This is probably a pretty good microwave reflector too. My WiFi is great in the house, but drops off really quick outside. GSM phone is even crappy in the house. I just got a Sirius radio and 0 bars next to my home office window, but when I put the antenna on the roof right over that Window, I get MAX bars. They should make a simple cheapo antenna to mount outside a window. It could be really small. Just have to get outside those metallic coated windows.