In NC at least there has been less BT interference lately on ClearWire. When I was home for the summer I definitely had BT throttled down to ~1k, useless. When I was home for winter break however, there was a lot less obvious or no throttling. I had the impression it had to do with the Comcast court action and "undoing" their system before similar action could be taken against them. I still think it is a generally crappy service with a rather large house only getting a useful signal at a certain angle on one shelf of one bookcase in the whole house. (opposite side from the tower we get service from, go figure) We even drove to the base of the tower we get service from using Google earth to find it and a UPS to power the modem and didn't have full "bars". It isn't a "put it where it is convenient and out of sight" service. I believe once our contract is up we will be switching to a different service, unless Sprint can better leverage the tech; i.e. speed, signal strength, and maybe even price. (Yeah right)
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ethana2 @ Feb 19th 2008 2:47AM
We have cleawire. They block torrent uploads. Ubuntu hardy alpha5 in 3 days is gonna take /forever/ to get..
I just want google to buy clearwire and copowi ;)
JaggedXJ @ Feb 20th 2008 2:59AM
In NC at least there has been less BT interference lately on ClearWire. When I was home for the summer I definitely had BT throttled down to ~1k, useless. When I was home for winter break however, there was a lot less obvious or no throttling. I had the impression it had to do with the Comcast court action and "undoing" their system before similar action could be taken against them. I still think it is a generally crappy service with a rather large house only getting a useful signal at a certain angle on one shelf of one bookcase in the whole house. (opposite side from the tower we get service from, go figure) We even drove to the base of the tower we get service from using Google earth to find it and a UPS to power the modem and didn't have full "bars". It isn't a "put it where it is convenient and out of sight" service. I believe once our contract is up we will be switching to a different service, unless Sprint can better leverage the tech; i.e. speed, signal strength, and maybe even price. (Yeah right)