Wireless / Mobile → Clearwire > Post your 2013 speed test results

Re: Post your 2013 speed test results

WiMAX RSSI: -71 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 26 dB
5.3 miles from tower
3:58 pm local time
Series M modem.
Netgear Wireless n300 Router.

The leaves are coming back out on the trees and my speeds are dropping.

Sitting here waiting on a phone call so decided to screw off a bit. Ran speed test on my 3 browsers to see who would preform best. Yes it can change by the second with even one browser but hay why not.

IE 10


Firefox 21


Chrome 28

PXU1900 in CradlePoint MBR-1000
WiMAX RSSI: -75 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 20 dB
5.5 miles from tower
External grid antenna
Test at 8:46am local time.
57°F, Overcast, Wind NW 7 mph

»www.speedtest.net/result/2765743281.png

Why are my results so horrible??? I have a Series M. I have never gotten good results with Clear here in KC at either residence ...

WiMAX RSSI: -71 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 24 dB
5.3 miles from tower
11:19 pm local time
Series M modem.
Netgear Wireless n300 Router.

PXU1900 in CradlePoint MBR-1000
WiMAX RSSI: -75 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 21 dB
5.5 miles from tower
External grid antenna
Test at 11:16pm local time.
67°F, Fair, Wind Calm

PXU1900 in CradlePoint MBR-1000
WiMAX RSSI: -75 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 21 dB
5.5 miles from tower
External grid antenna
Test at 7:55am local time.
63°F, Clear, Wind SE 6 mph

Can't connect to my longtime Base Station ID. This is the only connection I can get now.

PXU1900 in CradlePoint MBR-1000
WiMAX RSSI: -65 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 13 dB
5.5 miles from tower
External grid antenna
Test at 12:40pm local time.
83°F, Clear, Wind SE 13 mph

WiMAX RSSI: -70 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 25 dB
5.3 miles from tower
09:10 pm local time
Series M modem.
Netgear Wireless n300 Router.

Different server, through MegaPath.

DOWNLOAD SPEED

10.03Mbps
UPLOAD SPEED

0.94Mbps
PACKET LOSS

0%
LATENCY

88ms
JITTER

18ms

My WiMax is quite healthy today:

I'm only paying for 1.5Mb/s downstream and 0.5Mb/s upstream, so take that into account when you look at this:

My LTE seems to be slowly moving toward spec.

I am in midtown Manhattan, zip 10022. Before two days ago, LTE was not even showing up in my area according to the Sprint coverage map at »coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?q···ge%20map , even though I had had LTE connectivity for weeks, albeit at speeds not only below spec but even below what I was getting on WiMax. (The Sensorly maps had been showing my area with LTE for several weeks, however, though it was weak, averaging three out of five bars.)

Two days ago the Sprint coverage map started showing my neighborhood with LTE for the first time. However that coverage has been designated as Fair, not Best.

As most of you probably know, Sprint has posted minimum upload and download specs for LTE at »shop2.sprint.com/en/shop/why_spr···13:4GLTE . Sprint specs promise a minimum upload speed of 2 mps and of 6 mps on the download side.

I called up Sprint to ask what their specs were for LTE in a Fair area. I was told they were 4-6 megs for download and 1-3 megs for upload.

I am pleased, therefore, to say that my LTE is finally in spec for a Fair area. Here's what I'm getting:

I think what you are connecting to is Sprints own offering of LTE rather than Clear's new TD-LTE which is currently being installed. Sprint will be coming out later this year with some new phones (tri-frequency) that will connect to Clear's LTE on their towers. I am wondering when Clear will start to offer LTE devices to its subscribers? I do think that with 10 million subscribers (retail and wholesale) WiMAX is a money maker for them and that service will be with us for a long time. Sprint may talk more about their plans when they announce quarterly earnings at the end of this month.

Which raises the following interesting question.

Right now Clear offers its own unlimited 4G service, for the amazingly low price of less than $50. When one looks closely at the service, of course, one realizes why: The WiMax rollout was never completed and, while the WiMax works fine in those areas that were completed, it simply is too immature as a network to suffice; one needs to bundle it with 3G in order to make it worth anyone's while, as so many companies, Sprint, Millenicom, Wireless 'n' WiFi, etc., have realized. Which is why the Clear unlimited service continues to be, for now, pretty useless unless one 1) doesn't travel much and 2) has good WiMax where one is most of the time.

However the Clear LTE footprint may be quite different. The Clear LTE network may very well be widespread enough, mature enough, and reliable enough, that a package which relies solely on it may be of a lot greater value than Clear's current WiMax only service. Do you believe that will indeed be the case? Because, if it is, suddenly Clear's unlimited service looks a lot more attractive, particularly if they keep it unlimited and keep the price where it is. Should that happen, it will suddenly make services like Millenicom and Wireless 'n' WiFi look like ripoff artists.

I was told that here in Chicago all towers will eventually get LTE capability and WiMAX service will not be changed. Right now the immediate purpose of the LTE rollout seems to be to reduce the congestion on the Sprint network. Long term your vision makes sense.

Which LTE rollout? The Sprint LTE rollout or the Clear LTE rollout?

Above and beyond everything else, I find it fascinating that Clear's LTE network seems to be headed for direct competition with Sprint's LTE network, unless I've misunderstood something significantly.

The Clearwire LTE rollout will reduce congestion on the Sprint network. Sprint now owns both networks. I don't think that the Clear brand will ever offer smartphones to compete with the Sprint brand.

Smartphones perhaps. I'm more interested in what they might make available for laptops on their LTE service. If you're right, perhaps they'll never compete with Sprint for laptops on their LTE network either. Which means that Clear's LTE will forever be simply a skeletal safety net to ease pressure on Sprint rather than a full-fledged network.

Maybe we will get more info from the Sprint earnings conference call on the 30th.

WiMAX RSSI: -74 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 21 dB
5.3 miles from tower
10:32 pm local time
Series M modem.
Netgear Wireless n300 Router.

PXU1900 in CradlePoint MBR-1000
WiMAX RSSI: -65 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 13 dB
5.5 miles from tower
External grid antenna
Test at 1:40pm local time.
72°F, Lt rain, Wind Calm

Better today, but tower is overloaded at night, most of the time less than one meg down, with 1.6 megs up.

WiMAX RSSI: -63 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 25 dB

What a Rip-off ! ! !