Clearwire, it’s hell- User Submission by Zach H.
September 3rd, 2008 | by Tim |I live out in the sticks here in Central Texas. Until Clearwire came along, my only two options were Dial-Up and ISDN, both of which I had at one point or another. I’ve had Clearwire for going on 3 years now. Unfortunately there is just nothing else I can get out here…. so I get to live with Clearwire.
The service started out great 3 years ago. It was NEVER what they advertised it to be as far as speeds go, but the service was atleast decent… or so I thought. After 6 months the Hell began. I couldn’t play any games due to latency jumps, dropped connections, and throttling of my connection speed which they SWEAR they don’t do. Bittorrent? Yeah, okay… can’t do that either. Youtube? Streaming Videos? No sir, you’re using Clearwire’s bandwidth, they throttle that back too. Downloads? I have the Premium package, the day I see a download that gets over 120KBPS will probably be the day interstellar space travel is invented.
When I’m sitting around drinking a cold one with the buddies, we joke about Clearwire. Why isnt it working today? The grass must be growing…. There must be a cloud in the sky…. A butterfly somewhere spread its wings.. No one ever really knows why it quits working at random.. It just does.
I pay roughly $45 a month for this crap after modem leasing and taxes. Time Warner Cable is $20 a month for the basic package which totally kicks Clearwire’s butt…. Clearwire just uses people like me for money because they know we have no other ISP options.
Sincerely,
Zach H.