No, it was throttled. I have more than one modem, and the other Clear modems has speeds that were fine. The customer support rep I spoke to about it admitted that my account was throttled and would be restored next month.
I am also in the Dallas area, and I have been throttled. One day you get 2 to 4 Mbps, then it goes down to less than 100kbps for the rest of the month. The deceiving thing is that they have no usage point that they do it; it is all arbitrary. Good option for cheap, basic internet where you cannot get DSL. Bad for heavy usage, like for commerical use or streaming video.
Slashdot Mirror
What are you talking about? Comcast, Verizon, and others are not backbone providers that would be places like Level 3 Communications
The scary thing is that Verizon is a Tier 1 provider. When they bought MCI several years ago, they got UUNET too.
No, it was throttled. I have more than one modem, and the other Clear modems has speeds that were fine. The customer support rep I spoke to about it admitted that my account was throttled and would be restored next month.
I am also in the Dallas area, and I have been throttled. One day you get 2 to 4 Mbps, then it goes down to less than 100kbps for the rest of the month. The deceiving thing is that they have no usage point that they do it; it is all arbitrary. Good option for cheap, basic internet where you cannot get DSL. Bad for heavy usage, like for commerical use or streaming video.