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Re: Post your 2013 speed test results I am going back to Verizon as soon as possible. I am paying 52.00 a month for speeds that are from anywhere from 1.5mbs - 4. 0 mbs. Average is around 2.0-3.0mbs. I am going to pay verizon the $250.00 I owe them and get the 50/25. |
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I post by kbps by mistake at first |
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Even worse!
I have been waiting for 2 days on them to "fix the problem" according to the rep on their Facebook page. I have been posting there as well. They keep deleting and saying they will help. |
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 xrayman
join:2008-12-09
Kansas City
kudos:1 | reply to Barry Allen
Barry, if I could get Verizon fiber to the house 50/25, I would dump Clear in about two Nanoseconds. My son has Verizon 50/25 in northern VA, very nice. |
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xrayman
join:2008-12-09
Kansas City
kudos:1 | reply to FrankSATX
Frank, my Clear connection has degraded about to the same degree as yours, but only in the nighttime. During the day and evening time speeds are very good until after 9pm then the down speed drops off like yours. It remains very slow all night long, I have tested at 3am with the same very slow speeds. Starting last week the higher daytime speeds don't return until around 9am. I don't have super high usage, last month usage was 18 gigs. |
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xrayman
join:2008-12-09
Kansas City
kudos:1 | reply to Chicago
PXU1900 in CradlePoint MBR-1000
WiMAX RSSI: -73 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 13 dB
5.5 miles from tower
External grid antenna
Test at 2:38pm local time.
85°F, Fair, Wind Calm
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I am placing my order tomorrow for fios tomorrow. Same price i am paying 49.99 for 24 months. The highest I ever received with clear was almost 5mbps. |
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New Low ! ! !
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join:2001-12-29
Oregon City, OR | reply to Chicago
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said by FrankSATX :New Low ! ! ! If you don't mind my asking, Frank, what sort of hardware are you using? Is it the Clear Hub Express or something else? Also, as your speed gets worse, are you also seeing fewer bars of reception on average, or are the bars remaining high while the speed goes down? |
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»www.speedtest.net/result/2919144502.png
Clear Modem WiFi Model WIXFBR-117
WiMAX RSSI: -54 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 33 dB |
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join:2013-03-19
united state
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Clearspot with Antenna ports.
CINR -71
RSSI 19
Los Angeles, CA
Netflix SuperHD
Youtube speed 1.06Mbps |
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Re: Post your 2013 speed test results said by Barry Allen:I am placing my order tomorrow for fios tomorrow. Same price i am paying 49.99 for 24 months. The highest I ever received with clear was almost 5mbps.
It's lovely you will love it.
But if you don't get tv you are not getting extra speed due to VOD I get 9 mbps extra and upload extra by 3 mbps (on 50/25) you would get 58/38 mbps so that is more then 10 mbps for free.
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I use a rectangular grid dish antenna that has a gain of 24dbi at 2.5 GHz, for the CLEAR Hub Express Modem. The long yagi antenna below it is used to bring weak AT&T 743 MHz (LTE) and 850 MHz (phone) signals to a microcell inside my house. The microcell provides good signals for our smartphones and back-up AT&T wireless USB modem on an MBR1000 wireless wifi router. Our smartphone battery life has been greatly improved because of the microcell and outside antenna. Clear had an outage that lasted a couple hrs in Fort Lauderdale FL last night. When they came back, my downlink speed had increased slightly, with an average between 14 & 15 mb/s. This is what a good outside antenna can do if you use Google Earth to plot the clearest path (no trees or buildings in the way) from the tower to your roof. Without the outside antenna connected, my speed falls to about 2 mb/s. |
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I've got the $49.99 service.
I have a HAWKING HAI15SC Hi-Gain 15dBi Corner Antenna
RSSI: -42 dB
CINR: 39 dB
Frequency: 2650500 kHz
CLEAR Hub Express (V00 - WIXFBR-131 - 01.01.10.999 (06/07/2013))
Speedtest.net shows today (peak hours, plus network load several VPN/RDP/SSH in use atm)
uTorrent will usually peak around 2,700 KB/sec downstream ( ~20.7 Mbps ) and about 128 KB/sec upstream ( ~1.00 Mbps )
I realize these numbers seem to be quite good, what I really have been trying to tweak is the latency though, I am stuck trying to play online FPS games with this connection, so I've been using all sorts of tricks to get a decent latency ~70ms average is good for me.
Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on how to improve latency with these modems / connections ? I would really love to do that.
Here is my Tower distance, unfortunately it doesn't show the scale, but it doesn't seem much more than a mile or so.
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join:2002-09-26
Farmersville, CA | 
RSSI = -79 dBm
CINR = 18 dB
But it goes out every 2 mins or so...so it doesnt really matter lol. Get lots of BS SYNC LOSS disconnects, thats even with a new modem they sent me. Just started doing this about 2 weeks ago, before that it was pretty good(stable at least). Whenever it connects it gets 3-4 bars.
It runs great at night usually, but during the day forget it 
Wish i had anything else, but no dsl or cable here. |
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for some reason I think using the built in modem results in what can be a very strong signal, a quality connection to the towers, lower latency, but generally speaking i notice the traffic shaping is more pronounced, on speedtests it gets closer to 6 Mbps, and on Uploads it peaks to nearly 2 Mbps and then it almost seems like it has to transfer enough data at ~0.8 Mbps to result in an average of "1 Mbps" very strange behavior I'm not sure why this is the case, it could be speedtest.net software, or it could be the algorithm clear is applying for their traffic shaping policy. But with a 802.11 wifi antenna (not the same spectrum frequencies as wimax) it doesn't seem to be shaped on the downstream as tightly, it'll hit 14-15 Mbps on speedtest.net but without it, 6 Mbps is about all. |
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Have you tried attaching an antenna, or one thing you can do is go to the sprint.com and clear.com sites and put in your address on the signal quality maps, then find where your closest tower is and then rotate the modem so that the flat side is facing it as best you can. |
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just curious, what is the humidity level where you are, and is it different during the night? do just the bandwidth speeds go up and down night and day, or does the signal as well? trying to figure out if it is a bandwidth issue at the tower, or if it is a signal issue |
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Qrusher
join:2002-09-26
Farmersville, CA | well lately it has been around 30% during the day and up to 77% at night.
Well, the bars are never lower than 3-4. And i usually get around 150k/sec when i'm connected. I'll write down the speeds and what times they are, cause it changes a lot.
Usually at night it will be faster.
What kind of antenna could i get for this? i never thought of doing that before, but i would cause this sucks If i cant get it fixed will probably have to cancel it. |
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ivman
join:2010-08-15
Shortsville, NY | reply to Chicago
WiMAX RSSI: -70 dBm
WiMAX CINR: 26 dB
5.3 miles from tower
9:08 pm local time
Series M modem.
Netgear Wireless n300 Router.
The leaves are coming off the trees and my speeds are rising.
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