Clearwire Edges Toward 100Mbps Wireless Broadband

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Let the comments about “downloading porn on 100Mbps wireless broadbandhttp://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/10/20/clearwire_edges_toward_100mbps_wireless_broadband” begin! You know that’s all any of us care about anyway.

According to Sievert, the company has clocked download speeds at 50 Mbps using 10 MHz channels for up and down speeds. When using 20MHz channels, the speeds go up to 90Mbps. These speeds are significantly faster than the 3Mbps to 6Mbps average download speeds the company currently gets on its commercial network, which uses a competing technology called WiMax.
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i hope we continue to hear more about this and it becomes a quick reality....sadly i fear it will get purchased and shelved for 5 years for "5G" and that way they can charge more for it
 
it is funny
how clear sends me ads about their services this year
it jumped from
services
home internet, wireless internet, phone used to be beginning of the year
all 3 for $40 with 4g internet at home, phone and on the go wireless service around the city (very very limited) coverage
now it somehow bumped up to 70 dollars for all 3 services now with still limited coverage around the city
hmm...
 
This is just LTE which Verizon is launching this year in 30 markets. No one person gets to use the full 20mhz of bandwidth so you'll never see 100mbps in reality on LTE.
 
Is this the same Clear that is always sending stuff in the mail with Clear in light green on the envelope? I wouldn't believe a word they say if it is. I know a couple people who tried their services and went through the wringer getting out of them.
 
mmooney86 said:
This is just LTE which Verizon is launching this year in 30 markets. No one person gets to use the full 20mhz of bandwidth so you'll never see 100mbps in reality on LTE.
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Well they even say this in the linked article that realistic speeds will be between 8-12 Mb/s so it's just as fast, if not faster than Sprints Wimax 4G. I'm going to assume that since the frequency is much lower than Sprints (10-20 MHz vs. 2+GHz), building penetration is going to be much better because of the longer wavelength. I know using Sprints 4G/Wimax indoors has somewhat been an issue so far.
 
Seriously.

I just got off Clear home/office service. I live roughly 1/4 mile from the nearest tower. Most of the time, however, I would unerringly connect to a tower 4 miles SOUTH of me.


I should have been getting at LEAST 3 bars on the modem. Most of the time I got 1 or 2.

And even when my connection WAS a nice solid 3, I'd wind up having to reload pages that simply timed out in the middle of loading.

Lag wasn't a huge issue for gaming most of the time, but VOIP was absolutely unusable. Literally, every other syllable of every other word. It'd be fine in the early morning, but after about 1PM, even if I had NOTHING else downloading, no games open, and my VOIP phone was the ONLY thing running on my local network (computers shut down and all).

The people at Clear were really nice about it and all. And even let me out of the contract because I'd had issues from the get-go. But before promising massive bandwidth improvements, they really need to increase their coverage, their coverage areas, and general stability of their networks.

Also, when speaking about Sprint and Clear, understand they're majority owned by Sprint and Sprint resells their 4G service on Clear's network.
 
problem is more users who use it less bandwidth (some one posted quite an bit ago and commented "it was really fast by my mistake was recommending it to every one els and now i get poor speeds now" more users = less bandwith as its wireless not cable)
 
Bah, there's not enough bird porn in the internet for me to even worry about this. Every time I go looking all I can find is anatomically incorrect furry porn. Seriously people, birds aren't built with those bits! :eek:

I did get some good stuff off flickr a while back though...
 
We already have 120MB/s download speed here in south east Ireland with over a year now.
 
My parents used to have Clearwire and they were driven insane by it. Their average download speed was a paltry 180 kb/sec. It took ages to download anything including windows updates.
 
Evil said:
My parents used to have Clearwire and they were driven insane by it. Their average download speed was a paltry 180 kb/sec. It took ages to download anything including windows updates.
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There's a difference between Clearwire, which was their older slower service out a couple of years ago that was only like 256k to 1m service or something around that, and Clear which is the newer network which is supposed to be 6-12m service. Clearwire is slowly going away in favor of Clear.
 
LOL, had their 4G service for a few days. 1.6 miles from the tower, four bars on the modem and less than a half a meg download. ATT's 3G on my iPad was consistantly faster. To top it off, their techs were ignorant and insulting. Perhaps the 100 meg service will get close to the 6 meg service promised with their 4G network.
 
I don't know how many of you use Clear, but their crap sucks. I get about 10 mbps, when I'm not throttled (about 1% of the time). The rest of the time, I'm getting around 0.5 mbps. I live about 500 ft from the cellphone tower.

Their hardware is total trash too. I have the Seirra Wireless 3G/4G device. I've gotten the 3G to work twice. As soon as you reboot, unplug the device, or anything, expect to spend a lot of time trying to get it to work again. I've totally given up on the 3G portion and just tether my T-Mobile phone when I'm not in their 4G network.
 
umcpgrad said:
oh so clear and clearwire is not the same?
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They're the same company. Most of it is just branding. Clearwire used to sell a much slower service that's slowly being phased out in favor of their newer 4G service (mostly branded "Clear"). The only places still referring to it as Clearwire are in markets where they've already built brand recognition.
 
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