I've been testing this unit for several days in Austin, and am very unimpressed. I've also been testing Clear's home modem, in the same room, and speeds are 1/3 or less than the home modem, despite (presumably) the same signal strength - moreover, despite being only several blocks from Clear's main Austin Tower and in direct line-of-sight for 4G, the home modem is only averaging about 3 MBPS while the ClearSpot is about 1.1 MBPS, with speeds sometimes as slow as .250 MBPS. All of this surfing has been on Clear's 4G Austin network, which is supposed to offer 3 - 6 MBPS speeds (which it does with the home modem). I had hoped that I would enjoy true 4G speeds with the ClearSpot, but I am really just getting comparable to my AT&T 3G speeds, on average. Between this poor performance and high price for monthly service ($61 plus taxes), I think I'm going to to - reluctantly - stick with AT&T data.
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I've been testing this unit for several days in Austin, and am very unimpressed. I've also been testing Clear's home modem, in the same room, and speeds are 1/3 or less than the home modem, despite (presumably) the same signal strength - moreover, despite being only several blocks from Clear's main Austin Tower and in direct line-of-sight for 4G, the home modem is only averaging about 3 MBPS while the ClearSpot is about 1.1 MBPS, with speeds sometimes as slow as .250 MBPS. All of this surfing has been on Clear's 4G Austin network, which is supposed to offer 3 - 6 MBPS speeds (which it does with the home modem). I had hoped that I would enjoy true 4G speeds with the ClearSpot, but I am really just getting comparable to my AT&T 3G speeds, on average. Between this poor performance and high price for monthly service ($61 plus taxes), I think I'm going to to - reluctantly - stick with AT&T data.