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Clear 4G wireless?

dmention7

dmention7

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Anyone have any personal experience with it? I keep getting offers for $60/mo for unlimited use on a home modem and a USB modem. That's only a couple bucks more than I am paying for Comcast, and I've been looking for a way to dump them for ages.

What kind of bandwidth are you getting, and what kind of signal reliability do you see?
 
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ZoomZoom Diva

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I have been looking at the idea as well... mostly for just a cheap home modem. $15 a month less than I pay now. However, no experience or real knowledge.
 
mndsm

mndsm

I'M OFFENDED!
It seems like a great concept if you live in an area that has good 4g coverage. I talked to one of the sales goobers once, and he actually seemed to know what's up, and they're using cell carriers 4g towers (obv) but I don't remember which ones. If it's Verizon's LTE network or Tmo's HSPA+, you've got some fairly srs interweb capability under the hood.
 
dmention7

dmention7

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I'm having a really hard time digging up good hard facts on bandwidth. All I seem to see is "HURR DURR AWSUM 4G MEGA SPEED". If it's anything in the vicinity of 10Mbps, I'd strongly consider it.
 
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spek1098

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Bear with me while I drag this a little off topic, but no one in the US offers real 4g. This 4g crap should be called faux 4g or 3.1g at best. The standard for a true 4g network is 100Mb/s for a moving device, say in a car, and 1Gb/s for stationary devices.
 
Picklz

Picklz

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If you like to game I would stay away from it, reliability + latency is moderately to significantly higher than a good DSL or Cable connection. I haven't used the new 4g but the 3g and otherwise was somewhat disappointing when I demoed it for some work stuff. It's great for travling / always having access but at home I'd not trade my wired connection for it.
 
dmention7

dmention7

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I don't game online much so my biggest concern would probably be sustained throughput for streaming video.

And yeah, I'm fully aware that "4G" is a misnomer for what we have here... but it seems like it could be a reasonable solution for home internet with the added bonus of being able to have broadband anywhere.

I guess the other factor is that it might just be more cost-effective to spring for a 4G smartphone with tethering when we're due for an upgrade, and then wait for Qwest to get fiber in our area.
 
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micahlarson

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if yo uwait tmo will have 42mbs peak by the end of the year.. currently I average on my phone 2-15mbs but a lot of that is due to latency and tower priority traffic management etc.

just make sure they don't throttle your speed or have a overage fee.. ALL wireless internet carriers have either, or both.
 
dmention7

dmention7

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The service I'm being offered claims to be an unlimited service. I'm sure they throttle bandwidth (I'm sure ALL ISPs do), but there are no overage fees or anything.
 
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spek1098

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micahlarson

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our service throttle depending on the plan 200mb/2gb/5gb/10gb no overage
 
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