WatchI bought my Gal a new laptop for mother's day. While we were at Best Buy, I decided to look into a hotspot device. They had a chart, and Clear was the only company that had an unlimited option for $50 a month at 4G, so I pulled the trigger on the voyager, for $100.
The billing is tied to a credit card or bank account, ala AOL in the early days, which I didn't like. Even though it's a no contract, pay as you go for what you use. with plans for 1 day, 1 week or by the month. The site doesn't list them, but I'm told, when I log in and suspend service, I can reactivate in portions or by the month. That's to be seen, I was concerned about trying to cancel or suspend my service via an aloof auto prompt phone system, and finding an actual human would be difficult, but I was assured I can handle it all via my account page. tbc(to be confirmed) The customer service people I did speak to, setting up the account seemed friendly and forthcoming enough. Definitely a step or two above Comcast, Direct TV or even Metro PCS.
As for the service it seems faster than my cable modem service. Definitely suits my needs. The box says up to 100 ft range, but I can't seem to get a usable signal though a wall, and the device on the other side only 15 feet away. It seems to only be able to connect if the computer is in straight unobstructed shot of the device.
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are you using it for browsing / email?
how about for interactive uses like remote login to machines (ssh , telnet)
how is netflix / hulu streaming performance?
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My wife has commandeered it. Like I said, the wifi range has a lot to be desired, even though it claims to have a hundred foot range.
The Comcast router is in my office/jamroom, her desk is clear on the other side, she was always complaining about only having one bar on the wifi connection, and the lagtime with zenga games. She lives on farmville and I haven't heard a peep out of her, since she's taken the Voyager over. Where as before she was constantly moaning about lagtime. I'll put it through the VPN and RDC paces this week end when I have more time.
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Which Voyager are you referring to?
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How did it handle VPN?
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DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT (or so I am told):
Youtube videos of this product and you will see that clear will cheat you, maybe not at first to earn your business, but over time they limit your service and then apparently are charged crazy for cancelling there services. DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE BUYING FROM THEM, personally, no thanks clear:
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I've been using Clear for three months and have done my research. Clearwire has cleaned up its act after a potential class action lawsuit and an inquiry by the FTC. The shook up their board of directors and made a significant spectrum swap deal with Sprint. The dropped contracts and leasing of their devices. You just buy the router then pay monthly. There's a 14-day trial period with 100% refund. There are no data caps or throttling. They do manage the network on a tower by tower basis during peak times. Meaning: traffic is slowed only so much as to keep the network flowing for everyone. I've noticed this once. It happened after work, at intersection with several hotels and apartment buildings. It meant that streaming Netflix and uploading a vacations worth of photos to Dropbox seemed sluggish. I've been using 100GB of data per month. Considering AT&T throttles my unlimited plan starting at 3GB, Clear offers an amazing deal.
Future of WiMAX? Clear is lighting up a LTE network along side it's WiMAX. There's uncertainty whether or not Clear will continue supporting both will the network suffer as Clear expands? Any thoughts?
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The service has definitely been throttling since I first wrote about it.
There are times my wireless router on my Comcast gets the limited connection status with the yellow exclamation status. Usually unplugging it and replugging it resolves it, but it happens about 3 or 4 times a day.
The Voyager was great for a while, I would just connect to that and keep going with out having to get up, walk to the room with my Comcast router and address it.
But over the last few months more and more often, when I go to my Clear Voyager, it offers no help. Many times I will be browsing on Clear, then the next page I click on, it will just hang for 3 minutes or longer before giving me a page cannot be displayed. But then by time I go reset my Comcast router, the Voyager is back up and running. This is even with the Voyager Clear hotspot practically on my lap even.
It's just getting unreliable. I keep meaning to call them, but when I do. But when it's an issue, it's usually at night, when I expect they would be closed. I'll expect a result that will make the issue resolved, or I will be ditching them.
I've already got a Part time internet, it's called Comcast. I don't need another POS service.
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Clear is clearly a rip off! Unless you like paying premium prices for crappy speeds.
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I've stuck with them, when I tried to cancel they gave me the service for $25 a month, no speed or data limits. So I kept it. Though to be honest I haven't used it in over 3 months. It's sitting in my office not even on.
I would cut it off, but I'm waiting to see how they develop or who buys them or by some miracle their service gets awesome some how. I will hope to be grandfathered in at $25 a month.