Clearwire 4G WiMax… I Am Not Impressed

Wow!  Holy crap!  What a load of… OK.  So I have the Clear.Com service at home and man can I say that this really sucks!  I am so not impressed with the connectivity, the consistency, or even the speed.  What’s the point of having a broadband service that isn’t always broadband.  I ran a test at one point today and my speed was literally .05 mbps.  That’s 5K!  Are you freaking serious?!!  5K “broadband”.  I might as well bust out with the trusty old 2800 BAUD modem.  So yeah, I guess I’m a little pissed off that this service is SO bad!  I can’t even use this as a backup, even if I did want to fork over $100 for a dual WAN/load balancing router.

And the USB isn’t any better.  I had it connected at work for a couple of hours today then, all of the sudden, it disconnected and couldn’t find a signal again.  I didn’t move the computer.  I wasn’t even touching it at the time.  Just one second it’s on, the next second it’s off and can’t reconnect.

So I’m kind of torn here.  Do I call these guys up and say “Hey, your service REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY sucks and I want my money back!”, or do I give them the benefit of the doubt, since it’s such a new service, and see if they iron out the kinks in the next few days?  Either way, I can’t use them as my primary provider, the service is just too unreliable at this point. I’ll figure out what I want to do in the next couple of days and post my decision here for the whole world to read.

I may just dump AT&T and Clearwire and get Google’s new TiSP service: http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html, I’ll probably get better connectivity than I am now anyway.

5 Responses to “Clearwire 4G WiMax… I Am Not Impressed”

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