Hi Matthew, I'm using Clear's mobile plan, so I don't know whether any of these comments are relevant to the accessibility of setting up or administering your home service. Basically, this involves using a personal WiFi hotspot that picks up service from Clear's 4G towers. A fully charged ClearSpot will run for about 4 and a half hours, and support up to 5 connected devices. These numbers will vary according to the number of devices you connect, and the condition of the signal. (I never have as many as five devices connected simultaneously).
In order to query the connection status, assuming I have connected with Clear, I point my browser to: 192.168.1.1 This gives the summary status page for the connection. For example, the maximum WIMAX signal is 5 bars, and the graphics will be announced as 5 png image (or a lower number). The battery charge is shown eithaer as "charging" if the unit is connected to a mini-USB charger, or else is given in terms of a maximum of 3 stars (also announced as a number from 1 to 3 with "png image" appended). You can get other information on the number of devices connected, signal status, etc. I've never had to change the defaults (e.g. Wi-Fi channel, or WPA encryption scheme). Again, I suspect this information may not be that helpful to you, because I've never done a home modem setup. I basically use this as a personal WiFi access point, and maintain minimal data plans for the iPhone. This provides connection to multiple devices at basically faster speed than I would get from my 3G iPhone service, and also works when I travel. This was one of these two mobile device plans supported for $55/month that I split with someone else a year and a half ago. I bought the ClearSpot I was using a year and a half ago for $29 when they had the 1-day special iSpot promotion -- normally these cost $99. This has worked well for me, but my home service is TimesWarner cable modem. My impression is that the quality of service of any WiFi carrier varies so dramatically from region to region that you can only ask other who live in exactly the same area of the country that you do to get an estimate of likely performance. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 11, 2012, at 04:48, matthew Dyer wrote: > Useless in whart way. Sorry the kind of comment really doesn't help > me. It is really opsion I have at this point since I am going to dish > network in a few weeks. It was eather that or at&t which would > not work since I can not use do to the fact that I do not have a phone jack > to connect to. > > Matthew > > > On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Clearwire is completely useless. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cheree Heppe >> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Clearwire internet? Is it any good? >> >> Cheree Heppe here: >> I found Clear's interfaces inaccessable. >> >> Regards, >> Cheree Heppe >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 10/01/2012, at 10:51, matthew Dyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All and including mac users. I am going to be switching over from >> timeworner to clearwire and was wondering if anyone using clearwire knows >> how it is working and how easy is it to use? I will have 4g and my >> understanding it is wify over 4g. I am just trying to get an idea from >> anyone here who is blind users inparticular mac users are doing with it. >> When they coome out to hook it up are they going to have to install any >> software or do anything on my machine appart from testing the connection? >> Thanks. >>> >>> Matthew >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
