[134406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sawicki)
Wed Jan 5 19:28:19 2011
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:28:11 -0500
From: Mike Sawicki <fifi@hax.Org>
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimNs4u=85BXb-pvsiQCL3fTMPrJgxTg4SPAVd8F@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:15:43PM -0600, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> Is anyone using Clearwire/Clear's wireless broadband offering for stationary
> branch offices/remote equipment monitoring? Looking for results/experiences
> off-list. We're looking at it for industrial telemetry, and have spoken to
> people using ATT and VZW who are doing the same, but we wanted to look at
> Clear as well. Curious as to reliability, link performance, and support
> quality.
>
I replaced a 3mbps/768kbps ADSL provisioned through Qwest with Clearwire's
home offering. I've been mostly satisfied from a cost/performance
standpoint - for $55/mo I get a mostly equal replacement for the DSL
as well as service for a second usb dongle for my laptop. I've had to
go through an uncomfortable process with their support people on two
occasions when their service was booting me off every 3-10 mins. Turns out
somehow my home address changed in their system and they decided to treat
my home modem as a traveling modem. As others have stated they seemed aloof
and lacked access to more than a script and basic tools for troubleshooting.
Service has been mostly reliable for me in the Seattle area. Transfer
rates are sufficient.
-m
