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Clear Has Nationwide Outage
An anonymous reader writes "Based on reports from Clear's forum, the WiMax provider has been experiencing a loss of service problem all over the country. The troubled WiMax provider (also known as Clearwire) has had many user complaints of throttling, over billing, overloaded towers and system congestion, and of misrepresentation of the service offerings in ads and by resellers, so this is can't be good news for Clear's management. Reports are scattered among multiple forum threads, but at least one Clear rep was reported by a user to have acknowledged it was a nationwide issue."
Another blatantly false headline from /. This is getting old quickly.
Personally I hate Comcast, but they are a ton better than Clear. I left a couple weeks back because after 3 days of reporting 56k speeds, I was finally told that I had been throttled. What is really bad here, is how they explained to me that the system works. In short, there is no specified cap or limit, instead you are judged by how much data you use on a given tower at a given time. For those who use this at your homes, if you use more data than a passerby or friend of a friend using a dongle on your tower, you are instantly throttled. This can last for an undetermined amount of time. For me it was on day 4 when I finally quit.
Be warned, if you experience slow downs I would wager the farm this is what is happening to you. They like to write it off as "network issues", "tower upgrades", "clouds", "weather", anything but telling you about their network management.
Enjoy Clear.