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I'm approaching retirement and have a motorhome. Not everyplace I travel to has a fast connecton or any connection. No, I'm not paying high prices for very limited caps and huge ping times for a sat dish for internet. Ever share a free wireless connection at at campground? Sometimes dial up is faster.

For the campers, sometimes out is about 95% of the time.

I do have a flatscreen in the motorhome. It doubles as a backup camera screen when traveling, GPS screen, TV, Wii screen, and larger laptop screen.

I have a WiMax modem, but it is out of range in any location that is not city. I like the no contract BYOD (Bring your own Device) service. A used Goodwill modem and if in a service area, pay for a month. If not, no expense for service you can't reach.
http://www.clear.com/devices/byod

I guess travelers are not their intended audience. This is why smartphones are doing so well. They are better connected in most places.

I thought that was clear.com-- I have no knowledge/personal experience of them- but thought that clear.com did just that
http://www.clear.com/packages

$49.99 a month gets you 3-6ish mbps down and 1.5mbps up, 34.99 1.5 down, .5 up

As I say, I have no experience- but I am familiar with their website (I'm outside their range) do they perhaps treat their customers like shit?
their plans are strictly month to month- you can halt and resume readily. Do they not fit the scenario you describe?

So for the security system you have the server connected to a service like Clear

NIMS. that's what.

Not a cell company, but Clearwire http://www.clear.com/plans does seem offer unlimited 4G internet access. I've no affliation with the group, just keep seeing them in various malls in the East Coast. only problem with the service is the locations you could use it is rather limited. http://www.clear.com/coverage

Not a cell company, but Clearwire http://www.clear.com/plans does seem offer unlimited 4G internet access. I've no affliation with the group, just keep seeing them in various malls in the East Coast. only problem with the service is the locations you could use it is rather limited. http://www.clear.com/coverage

I live in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City and have the option of at least 3 ISPs:

-- AT&T U-verse fiber or DSL.

-- Time-Warner RoadRunner cable

-- Clear

When I called Time-Warner to cancel my service after my AT&T fiber hookup their price suddenly became negotiable.

The link I thought was in my original post:
http://www.clear.com/spot/ispot?intcmp=1DaySp:HomePage:Carousel

What devices can I connect with my iSpot?
It’s easy to use the iPadTM, iPod Touch®, and iPhone® with iSpot. Right now, you’re probably saying “I want it.”

What if I want to connect my laptop?
iSpot was built and optimized by CLEAR for Apple mobile devices (although Apple isn’t likely to tell you that) . If you want to experience the same kind of tummy-twisting speed on your laptops, cameras or other smartphones, there are some sweet Spot products that will make you very happy.

Elaborate? Hell, I'll bring a link!

http://www.clear.com/spot/ispot?intcmp=1DaySp:HomePage:Carousel

Check it out now though. It might be a one day only special.

http://www.clear.com/

Here in Chicago, too. http://www.clear.com/coverage

Incidentally, I switched my Internet service to Clear WiMax. It's slightly more expensive than Comcast in the short term because I had to buy the equipment, but they've got a 3Mbps/$30 tier while Comcast's minimum was 6Mbps/$42.95, so I'll save money in the long run. And more importantly, it lets me avoid supporting the fascists at either Comcast or AT&T (the only DSL provider here)! Totally worth it...

Erm, you know that Comcast is part owner of Clear, right?

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2008/05/05/daily24.html

Damned clever, those fascists ;)

That's easy: Cancel all Comcast services.

I did that already a few weeks ago when they started hijacking DNS (and yes, I cited both that and the impending digital cable encryption as reasons why I was cancelling). The trouble is, the only thing I could cancel was the Internet service because I live in an apartment that has a bulk agreement with Comcast, and the cable TV is included as part of my rent. I really am a captive Comcast victim; my only further recourse would be to move! And to add insult to injury, while normal "residential" accounts get a free box, apartment bulk accounts don't, which means I'm going to have to pay extra even though I only use one TV. (Not to mention the objection I have to using the extra, redundant piece of equipment in the first place!)

Incidentally, I switched my Internet service to Clear WiMax. It's slightly more expensive than Comcast in the short term because I had to buy the equipment, but they've got a 3Mbps/$30 tier while Comcast's minimum was 6Mbps/$42.95, so I'll save money in the long run. And more importantly, it lets me avoid supporting the fascists at either Comcast or AT&T (the only DSL provider here)! Totally worth it...

Apparently proofreading has gone out of style with the Slashdot editors, since they let the summary get the pricing and details all wrong. The prices Comcast gives in TFA are for WiMAX + Comcast HSI, not just the WiMAX service. Furthermore they're the introductory prices, not the final prices. I'm just going to rip off the DSL Reports piece on this, since they get it right.

Comcast today gave their rebranded version of Clearwire Mobile WiMax service a new name: "Comcast High-Speed 2Go." According to a Comcast press release, the new service launches tomorrow in Portland. The "up to 4Mbps" service will launch everywhere Clearwire deploys Mobile WiMax -- a plan that should see nine cities live by the end fo this year. According to Comcast, the company is offering two different wireless data plans:

• Comcast High-Speed 2go Metro service costs $49.99 for twelve months ($72.95 thereafter) and comes with 12Mbps Comcast home broadband service and a Wi-Fi router. The service uses a Mobile WiMax data card that will obviously only work in areas where there's Comcast/Clearwire Mobile WiMax.

• Comcast High-Speed 2go Nationwide service costs $69.99 ($92.95 thereafter) and also comes with Comcast 12Mbps home broadband service and a home Wi-Fi router. The service uses a dual-mode data card that allows users to float between Clearwire's Mobile WiMax network and Sprint's 3G EVDO network.

You can of course compare this to standalone Clearwire pricing. Comcast tells us existing double and triple play customers will be able to add Mobile WiMax service on to their current bundles for $30 more a month. Comcast invested roughly a billion dollars into the Sprint and Clearwire joint venture -- and is buying bandwidth wholesale from the new operator.

Comcast's wireless service won't involve voice product initially, though the carrier suggests that may change. As for caps, Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas tells us that Comcast is "deferring to Clearwire's TOS on usage" while customers are connected to the Clearwire network. Clearwire's service comes with 200MB, 2GB and unlimited flavors, so we'll have to wait and see which "deferment" Comcast chooses. When connected to the Sprint EVDO network, customers are restricted to just 5 gigabytes of usage per month.

Once you factor out the first-year incentives, what Comcast is doing is reselling WiMAX for $30 a month on top of your current bill, and they are reselling WiMAX + Sprint's 3G service for $50 a month on top of your current bill.

The 3G service comes with the standard 5GB cap (making it slightly cheaper than regular plans since pro-rated it's $20, while stand-alone plans usually start at $30), while the WiMAX service is undefined. Clear has a $30 tier, but it's only 200MB. Presumably Comcast is getting a better deal here and reselling the $40 package that comes with a 2GB plan, but someone is going to have to find out the finer details on that since Comcast isn't spilling the beans on the matter.

And a Cradlepoint with WiMAX can really kick ass. An unlimited plan with T1's up and down... Just the cities eligible so far are limited, but growing! Clear and check devices.

My clear home modem will regularly get speeds of up to 10Mbps; it's advertised as 6Mbps.

It's the same service being talked about in this article. Clear has a deployment here in portland.

http://www.clear.com/shop/home_services.php

I use the basic plan. They say they cap it at around 100k (bytes) but I regularly get download speeds over a megabyte per second.

I actually have a comcast buisness connection at home, and just carry around the wimax home router with me for places that don't have decent internet. The USB stick doesn't work in Linux anyway.