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Is "clear" the same thing as Clearwire? If so, that's the next best thing on the horizon. I can't wait for them to go nationwide and break up the phone/cable monopoly.
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Last edited by Father Anthony; 08/07/09 06:16 AM. Reason: Split from another thread
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I'm not sure if Clearwire is a company or a method. Clear is a company. Just go to www.clear.com [ clear.com] to find out about it. If my family lived in range I'd tell them to get it, but it looks like it's at least 35-40 miles away from here. And I doubt it'll come out here soon, since where I live we don't even have cable offered. Living on a beautiful farm in a sparsely populated county has its pluses and minuses! Alexis
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I looked into clear, but for a laptop, they only support windows, with mac coming "soon." As I use Unix . . .  hawk
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I looked into clear, but for a laptop, they only support windows, with mac coming "soon." As I use Unix . . . hawk Hawk: I am running Mint 7 Linux on a desktop and it works fine. My wife has Linux loaded on her laptop and uses the wireless router here at the house to access the Clear Wire modem. By the way Clear Wire is merging with Clear or the other way around. Clear Wire and Clear support Windows and I thought I saw some configuration docs for e-mail clients being run on Macs. That being said I have not had any problems using Linux on their network. Just as a note of information, the tech who was out to the house yesterday said the modems are using Linux. I was on their 3g network but was having signal issues due to their making changes on the towers. Antenna swap outs I guess, in any case I am now on the 4g network and it is fast. Download speed is 5.38 mp/s and upload is 0.50 mp/s to a server in Charlotte NC, I am in Raleigh NC. In Christ: Einar
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Clearwire is the company; clear is the name of their new services or that they're switching to.
I have it too, now. $45 a month gives me the home unit *and* the usb unit.
I haven't found any instructions for it for Linux (I know that they've released the specs to developers, though). I plug it into their hotspot contraption, and get my mobile wireless that way. I've also got a wireless printer, so at the office, I need the box anyway. I would like to be able to plug it in directly, though . . .
The house serviced leaves more than a little to be desired, however. It's fine about 22 hours a day, but from 4 to 5, it's overloaded, and speeds drop badly, sometimes below dialup--but our two house phones are internet phones!
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