I must once again give props to UBNT if you want awesome wireless gear for CLOS. For $160 or so, you can get a 60Mb/s link up (Mine is a ~3mi/~5km link using two Nanobridge M5's)
They also have 3.65ghz gear as well but is a bit more per unit. This per unit cost starts to put them in the 'nearly disposable' category. (Oh, and it includes the dish and can do MCS-15 if your range is enough). Lookup your local/private towers or buildings where you might be able to get space/colo cheap. It may be easier than you think to get a reliable connection... - Jared On Dec 3, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > I would second Nathan's experience. Tried to use them for our corporate > office as a life boat when our T1 provider was sold to an outfit that didn't > answer the support lines. Clear's NAT is atrocious and can't be turned off, > so you can't drop a real firewall behind it on a single static. > > -J > -------- > Jason J. W. Williams, COO/CTO > DigiTar > william...@digitar.com > > V: 208.343.8520 > F: 208.322.8522 > M: 208.863.0727 > > www.digitar.com > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > >> >>> This came up in another thread yesterday or today, and I just got the >>> solicitation mailer for Clearwire's WiMAX service in Tampa Bay, which they >>> call "4G", though the ITU disagrees. >>> >>> The AUP is here: http://www.clear.com/legal/aup >> >> I cannot strongly enough discourage you from using their service. My >> experience with them has been consistently awful - and given that they're >> headquartered in my area, that's unacceptable. I'm informed that my >> experience is not at all unique - either to the Seattle area or to their >> service at large. Their Wikipedia article tells you pretty much everything >> you need to know. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwire >> >> Their definition of unlimited tends to be "barely acceptable throughput >> levels, until you start streaming youtube/netflix or doing a long-running >> download or using bittorrent to seed files to your work PC and laptop or >> using your VPN to retrieve a document, in which case, we won't turn you off, >> we'll just silently jail you into a 32-128kbps bandwidth profile. Also, >> have some poorly implemented NAT on our ludicrously underpowered CPEs!" >> >> I also understand that they've been having financial difficulties, so >> they're unlikely to address the issues their customers are faced with. >> >> If I were you, I would keep your backpack offline until another option is >> available. You're not going to be able to use VOIP on their service, >> anyways. >> >> Nathan >> (Speaking as an individual - not as the company I work for.) >> >> !SIG:4cf9826a241136755510774! >> > >
