Got Clearwire for Free, and it was still horrible! – User Submission by Steve
January 7th, 2009 | by Tim |Hey tim. I have had clearwire for awhile now. My dad got us free clearwire because he was offered by a clearwire rep to give us free service if my dad let the clearwire people setup a kiosk in his shop. Let me just say this, even though we were getting it for free it is still awful internet.
The internet speed is dreadfully slow. I also found that the modem can never go where you want it to go. Our clearwire modem had to be in my room to get the best signal and it still rarely gets full bars. Very few time does it even reach the full five bars. I would have to say it stays around three. Also, the modem is by the window and not in the middle of the house otherwise the connection would be even worse. Add all of this up and the internet hardly ever reaches 100 kilobytes a second. This means that watching videos or downloading anything of any kind is dreadfully slow. Sometimes even just doing basic tasks like checking emails and surfing the net is beyond frustrating. The modem itself also loses connection and has trouble with my router and sometimes both have to be reset.
Now that my dad dosn’t have his shop anymore we don’t have free clearwire anymore. However, my dad decided to keep clearwire anyway. Now were paying around 30-something a month for this crap. The cable internet at college is way better than clearwire which I instantly noticed when I came back home this Christmas.
Although I don’t pay for the internet bill, I feel frustrated for those who do after reading other peoples stories on here because I know how bad it is. The cancellation fee is crap because 60% of the time clearwire fails every time. Its actually probably more like 100% of the time it sucks. Other internet providers are a tad more expensive. When I move out, I’ll find someway to get a more steady internet provider like cable. I think its better to pay more for something that will actually work instead of paying less for something that insists on being endless frustration.