CLEAR Home Internet...Anybody have it?

[Hicompression]

Actual download speed is different than your bandwidth. A lot of it has to do with your connection and also the server you are pinging on the other side.

For me, I have a 3MB connection and i'm usually downloading between 200 and 300KB, lame.

Ok. I gotcha.

[jdgregory84]

I'm not positive what kind of program he's using to download, but the best I've gotten through Miro is 1.3mbps and that was on a file with 1000's of seeders and very few leachers. Usually it's fluctuating from 300kbps to 0bps because the signal is so inconsistent.

[DFWtechie]

Charter came out and said that their connection ends at the corner of our street. I'm actually in Fort Worth off of Parkview Hills and Old Decatur Rd.

Roscoe...fuck you.

There is co-worker of mine who lives in that same Sub Divsion and he said there is DSL out there. Call in and ask for a dry loop dsl.

[90GT50]

There is co-worker of mine who lives in that same Sub Divsion and he said there is DSL out there. Call in and ask for a dry loop dsl.

Looks like he said he can get dsl out there, just not uverse.

[jdgregory84]

There is co-worker of mine who lives in that same Sub Divsion and he said there is DSL out there. Call in and ask for a dry loop dsl.

Like Emo said. We used to have DSL, but got rid of it. Lot better than clear, but still a little inconsistent. Plus, I'm about to move so I'll deal with clear for now. Thanks for your help though.

[Baba Ganoush]

A couple of buddies have it in the North Dallas area, and it sucks. Isn't it equivilant to cell phone or 3g service? It was terrible for any online gaming. I ran a speedtest last time I was there and compared it to my fios.


Mbps. v ^ ping
Clear: 0.99 0.73 79ms
Fios: 11.30 12.50 28ms

Not a fair comparrison, but im definately getting what I pay for. If all I did was surf, no videos, movies, gaming, I'm sure it would work.

[Bobby C 01TA]

I had CLEAR for a month and HATED it.. it was slow.. VERY slow. 4mbps at best and supposedly I had 2 main towers near me. Half the time it wouldnt work at all. Time Warner is better.. MUCH MUCH better. I pay 29.99 for TW and its not even a comparison. 38mbps and ALWAYS works.

[Hicompression]

Decided to give it a try...

Well....I took a risk and signed up for month to month service. So far I'm not impressed. I have GREAT signal (5 bars lit). However, the upload and download speeds suck.

I think the max I have seen for download speed is 2 Mbps (they advertise 6 Mbps with bursts up to 10 Mbps). Upload speeds are really slow with 0.1 Mbps being the fastest I've personally seen.

I'd say there was a little false advertising going on with CLEAR.

The good thing is that I've got a 14 day cancellation option (no questions asked) on the equipment (modem) and service.

TWC raised my internet fees to $55 per month. At $35 a month for clear that's a $20 savings per month or a $240 savings per year. I'll just have to figure out if I can live with the slower speeds.

[Marisa]

We had it at work and it super duper SUCKED.

[yellowstang]

They CLEARly suck, but that has been mentioned.

[Gtracer]

Verizon Fios 35Mbps FTMFW

[jdgregory84]

I was trying to stream a 3 minute long video on Xbox live last night. With how many times it had to rebuffer, it ended up taking about 7 minutes to watch. Fucking sucks.

[stevo]

Well....I took a risk and signed up for month to month service. So far I'm not impressed. I have GREAT signal (5 bars lit). However, the upload and download speeds suck.

I think the max I have seen for download speed is 2 Mbps (they advertise 6 Mbps with bursts up to 10 Mbps). Upload speeds are really slow with 0.1 Mbps being the fastest I've personally seen.

I'd say there was a little false advertising going on with CLEAR.

The good thing is that I've got a 14 day cancellation option (no questions asked) on the equipment (modem) and service.

TWC raised my internet fees to $55 per month. At $35 a month for clear that's a $20 savings per month or a $240 savings per year. I'll just have to figure out if I can live with the slower speeds.

Good luck with that, see my rantings in this thread.

Stevo

[Hicompression]

Didn't read the fine print...

Good luck with that, see my rantings in this thread.

Stevo

Well I called to cancel service and found out that they had me capped at 1.5 Mbps download speed and 500 Kbps speed up. This is the $35 home internet plan. I guess I missed the speed cap in the fine print for this plan and assumed I would be getting 6 Mbps down.

Well, they didn't want me to cancel so they decided to give me unlimited download speed (6 Mbps down with bursts up to 10 Mbps) and 1 Mbps up. And...they knocked my monthly charge down to $30 to match what TWC was offering me for not cancelling my service with them.

I'll report back when I get home and re-check the service with the new speed settings...

[Hicompression]

Here's the speeds I got after they upgraded me today.