  L337
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L337
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2010-Mar-22 4:34 pm
Give us more Towers! or we will go to LTE!That doesn't leave the fact that Clear 4G isn't all that stable. They need more towers! | |
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Re: Give us more Towers! or we will go to LTE!LOL okay suuuurreeee you wait for ATT and VZW to deploy that. | |
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|  technick
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They need to double / triple their footprint before I could ever consider using them again. The speed / latency / dropped pockets was all over the board and completely unacceptable.  | |
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|  NickD
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2010-Mar-22 10:07 pm
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I'm sure Clearwire will have nationwide broadband coverage 10 years from now. | |
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Re: Give us more Towers! or we will go to LTE!they have it now. The same as TMO USA as nationwide 3G. They cover more than 4 states around the Country. Which would make them "nationwide".
And as far as Clear having nationwide coverage 10years from now, they're farther ahead that what T and VZ are at when in terms of deploying out. | |
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| BiggA
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Central CT  ·Frontier FiberOp..
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2010-Jun-10 7:39 pm
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The high frequency system with a limited number of towers doesn't create a great in-motion experience, but in the places that have it, it's supposedly fast. I wouldn't know, as they don't have it in my neck of the woods. I think they should do suburban and rural rollouts, in order to compete head-on with cable and DSL, since in many places, DSL isn't available due to distance from the CO. It would sure be nice to have another option here, even if the installs were external antennas for a fixed-point setup. | |
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FFH5
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2010-Mar-22 4:36 pm
PR blather that will fade if they get congestionThis is a nice speech by Clearwire undoubtedly dreamed up by a marketing exec looking to get new customers with some positive buzz.
But at least the spokesperson was honest enough to clarify his comments that this "eat all you want" attitude could go away if the system starts getting congested.
If they do, down the line, have to start applying caps of some sort, all the super large bandwidth eaters will be PO'd and will start trashing Clearwire for being duplicitous. They will easily forget the weasel words at the end of the interview. | |
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Re: PR blather that will fade if they get congestionHere's the thing: Clear has a stupid amount of spectrum available. Nobody else does, not T-Mobile, not Verizon, not AT&T. | |
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2010-Mar-22 5:29 pm
Re: PR blather that will fade if they get congestionHow much spectrum do they have available? And at what frequencies? | |
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Re: PR blather that will fade if they get congestionI believe it's on the order of 100MHz, in the 2500mhz band. | |
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Re: PR blather that will fade if they get congestionIt's actually closer to 120-150 Mhz. » finance.yahoo.com/news/W ··· x=0&.v=2From what I've read, Clear is only using ~30 Mhz of their spectrum during their initial rollouts and can allocate more spectrum as usage and/or demand for higher speeds warrant. | |
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2010-Mar-22 6:40 pm
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said by iansltx:I believe it's on the order of 100MHz, in the 2500mhz band. Correct, about 100Mhz average per market. ATT/Verizon only have about 20-25Mhz for LTE. | |
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2010-Mar-22 7:28 pm
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Clear can { own } up to 62mhz of BRS spectrum from 2602mhz to 2673mhz and can lease up to 80mhz more of EBS spectrum 2496mhz to 2602mhz. ATT and VZ own up to 46 mhz of 700mhz spectrum and can roam on all the little guys 700mhz spectrum. The fiber guys ( cable and telco ) with wide area femtocells can off-load much of traffic on the wireless network. | |
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said by iansltx:Here's the thing: Clear has a stupid amount of spectrum available. Nobody else does, not T-Mobile, not Verizon, not AT&T. They can have all the spectrum in the world, but if they don't have backhaul to support it then it's no different than anything else. If they don't have enough backhaul to support a tower, that tower could be running at dialup speed's but have 100mhz of spectrum free. | |
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beaups
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2010-Mar-22 7:13 pm
Re: PR blather that will fade if they get congestionThey can reserve some of the spectrum to bounce the backhaul from tower to tower. Meaning they could have a fat fiber pipe to one tower and bounce that bandwidth across many towers. You need spectrum to do that, and clear has it. | |
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Re: PR blather that will fade if they get congestionthey also have the partnerships with the MSOs which would give them easy access to Fiber right to the tower if needed. | |
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If I remember correctly they are using Dragonwave Licensed Backhaul radios. Some of their radios are capable of 4Gbps. | |
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56403739 (banned)
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2010-Mar-22 5:14 pm
Unsurprising.Pretty easy to keep your network uncongested when the best most of your customers see is about a megabit per second, and that's during the miserable 50% connection uptime.
But then they've got to do something to hype their service, because right now it's going nowhere. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.and how do you figure that? they actually have a 4G network. Where is ATT, VZW TMO USA and all the others with their LTE networks? I don't see them anywhere offering service on that LTE network. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.said by hottboiinnc4:and how do you figure that? they actually have a 4G network. Where is ATT, VZW TMO USA and all the others with their LTE networks? I don't see them anywhere offering service on that LTE network. 4G?? Current Wi-Max is not 4G at all, it's a marketing gimmick.. Initial deployment's of LTE won't even be 4G, technical spec's for 4G are 100mbps and Wi-Max doesn't come close, it's more in line with 3.5G or 3.9G because people are experiencing the same speed's on Roger's 3G network in Canada as people with Wi-Max are here. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.Oh. So it's just like ATT with their coverage of 3G and them having the fastest data plans in the country? oh my mistake; the fastest in Cleveland as far as their bill boards and radio ads are concerned. But we know how fast TMO USA's network is;;;much faster than what ATT users see, and a more robust network in terms of customer service, network performance, and others.  | |
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Wimax is very capable of 4G speeds though. However, I do feel that Sprint should drop the ads claiming they have the nation's first 4G network(they partner with Clear for Wimax coverage, in addition to their EVDO 3G service). I am surprised they haven't been sued over it. In fact, I typically see better speeds from my AT&T 3G than friends who are covered by Clear. Granted, the potential is there, but it is far from being the current reality. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.Why drop the ads? It's true! They have a next-generation network built and they're the only provider that has one. I don't see TMO, ATT, VZW or anyone else building one.
As far as their "partner" you must have forgotten that Sprint owns 51%+ of Clear and sold out part of the company to focus on Customer Service and their CMDA network until they move over to WiMax.
And who is going to sue them? Maybe the BBB and their "watch dog group" LMAO! yah right. Also service may vary by location, and all of their ads and coverage maps do say that. so just because it's better in your area doesn't mean it is in Cali. | |
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Don't know where you've been testing, but we regularly get 6+ mb/s download at our workplace. | |
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Clearwire performance results from real people... » /archi ··· -wmx.netFriend has it in Chicago and says he typically gets 6Mbps but it sometimes steps down to 4Mbps - enough to do Netflix HD streaming w/out issues. The highest he as seen was 11Mbps when outside. He said it's great in his condo but varies wildly around the city. Seems like still too many get 2Mbps. MIMO antennas should help those with poor indoor signal. And obviously there needs to be enough backhaul to supply shared users on one site. LTE at 700Mhz will have a different challenge - interference due to the better propagation. The great propagation is actually a hindrance when attempting to do high speed data according to some LTE equipment makers. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.again...those are only from a handful of people tha use the service that know of this site. It does not include the rest of their customer base, which we will never know about. | |
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dslreports.com isn't a very good place to test Clear because it's a lot slower than speedtest.net. I always got 8Mbps+ on speedtest.net and had trouble breaking 2Mbps on dslreports.com. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.i have trouble using the DSLR speedtest on my cable connection. | |
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said by DufiefData:Don't know where you've been testing, but we regularly get 6+ mb/s download at our workplace. Chicago suburbs. Barely 1 meg when it holds, sometimes bursting to three. Upload never cracks 1 meg. Multiple disconnections, timeouts and other network hysteria. I'm about to send it all back and demand a refund. | |
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Re: Unsurprising.Friend has it in Chicago NNS. He typically gets 4-6Mbps at his place, peaked at around 11 but says it varies wildly around the city.
As with any new network, it will take a while to normalize. But yeah, if it's not stable where I live, I'd return it and try a year later. | |
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56403739 (banned)
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2010-Mar-25 7:47 pm
Re: Unsurprising.They had a two-service $50 unlimited bundle deal-for-life with fixed and mobile being one of the options. That's what I got. Unfortunately, it definitely seems not fully baked in the near west burbs. I probably won't bother to try again since by the time they get their acts together LTE will probably be deployed. | |
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Make me a deal!Dear Clearwire:
I'd be happy to use your bandwith and pay you for it, if you're willing to expand into my area and give me service for $60 or so a month. I'd be a good customer who pays her bills on time, and works hard to resolve technical issues before pestering the crap out of your customer service reps. I'm considered rural but not far from the interstate between Detroit and Chicago.
What do you say? | |
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txrocks
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2010-Mar-22 8:02 pm
That's why they are so SLOW at refunding my moneyIt's been two weeks since UPS dropped of my returned modems at their warehouse... 3 trouble tickets later and I'm still waiting for the 3-5 days it take to process a refund.
and I even got billed for service 6 days after they signed for my returned equipment...
I was designated a DEAD SPOT in the center of DFW. | |
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|  PamelaTSDigital Chick
join:2004-04-20
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Re: That's why they are so SLOW at refunding my moneyI got my refund credit to my card today after receiving tracking verification of return modem last Tuesday. I'm next to the North Dallas Tollway supposedly about two blocks from a tower. That's puts me 5 mins from downtown, 5 mins to Love Field and 5 mins from Parkland/Medical Center. The very best I saw was 4mb down/500k up. Very high latency that their tech thought was good, less than 0.01 of a sec (barely) and a boatload of dropped packets.
As I said best I saw was 4M/500K, well the average I saw was less than 3m down and as low as 2K up. When I dropped it off the UPS store told me their recent biggest business was returning these, lol
Oh btw I was supposed to get their 6/1 plan, their Dallas roll out is a Clear DUD | |
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I willI will be signing up in 2 weeks... should be all moved into my house by then. | |
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Meh.I've had Clear for about three months now, I only got it as a mobile solution for my laptop when I'm in town. So far, I've seen sustained speeds of around 6/1 and the highest speed was 10 down or so. It seems their rollout in Portland has gone fairly well. I only notice problems when I'm indoors and not near a first wall. Otherwise my reception is golden wherever I wander about town.
Keep in mind, I only use Clear while I'm smack downtown Portland and occasionally when I'm in Beaverton. So far, everything's worked great and right at the speeds advertised.
I'm not a heavy user on Clear, I have FiOS at home and drain that bandwidth like a madman, but the first month I had Clear I used around 25 gigs or so. Not so much as a peep from their people. | |
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As For LTEOn the other hand LTE has some ridiculously low latencies, as in sub 40 ms, that would make it a real substitute for a landline in rural and suburban areas.
Why do AT&T and Verizon have such small amounts of spectrum? Didn't they spend billions on the auctions? Who has the spectrum in the ranges above and below them? | |
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Re: As For LTEsaid by sonicmerlin:Why do AT&T and Verizon have such small amounts of spectrum? Because there is only 100Mhz spectrum available in the 700Mhz space, which was apparently auctioned in about 25Mhz chunks, really less than that. Sprint collected a lot of spectrum through the Nextel acquisition, which is essentially the only good thing that came out of that merger. | |
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