OK, so I got the new Clear.Com 4G broadband service for my house… mostly to become my primary Internet connection when my DSL fails, which happens way more than you might think. Now granted, Clear is just moving into my area, so I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt as to why the service is just so-so. The plus to the service is that is is considerably faster on downloads, a little over twice to three times as fast, but the uploads are horrible, averaging around 80kbps at the moment. My DSL was only 1.2 mbps download, but the upload was much faster at around 300kbps, on average.
I guess the coolest thing about the service is that I also got a USB broadband card for my, or my wife’s laptop, as an “emergency” backup… you know, in case the power goes out and we must get online to check our email, or post our latest musings to Facebook. The problem I’m having with it is that there are apparently no drivers for Windows 7, so I’m having a “little” difficultiy getting it to work at the moment.
All in all, however; I think this service will serve us extremely well. My next mission is to acquire a dual WAN port router and configure it with load balancing and failover, so if one of my connections goes down, the network will simply route the traffic off of the next port. That will be pretty sweet for a home setup, and all for less than what oher people pay for AT&T’s U-Verse service… not too bad.