FYI, Clear & Sprint are the SAME entity as far as the Wimax service goes. Maybe Sprint supplies the towers and Clear provides the signal but it amounts to the same thing. AT&T and Verizon are both upgrading to LTE for 4G service (8x faster than 3G?), with V already offering two different makes of LTE USB modems in the Atl. area. I have had AT&T DSL Extreme for ~4yrs (supposedly 5-6 down, but have never checked it) @$19/mo first year and $47/mo thereafter in the Fayetteville, GA area. Just got Comcast at the end of last year (supposedly up to 20 down) for $19.99/mo first yr, 23.99/mo second year. Made the change mostly to cut the budget. AT&T just ran new cables in my subdivision (to support Uverse), so I'm thinking I will switch back to AT&T after 2 yrs. and get the "new customer" discount on Uverse for a year or two then. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Richard Faulkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Clear rocks for customer service and tech support by my experience but they have seriously over sold their towers. I got capped right-off and never got the bandwidth I paid for or was advertised. Had to drop them inside of a month! Clear is great if you have a laptop or something but not for heavy use by my experience. Clear also has a limited service area and is centered around a few metro areas so far. I'd think of going toward Sprint or another carrier for service for 4G if you were further out. Have to do your shopping on that one.....<div class="im">
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</div><div class="im"><b>Subject</b>: Re: [ale] atnex outage<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><b>Date</b>: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:14:37 -0500<br>
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<pre>Too bad you can't get cable. If you were to ever get access, you can get
Comcast residential service 16-20 Mbps down / 2-3 Mbps up for about $70 /
Mo. However, they get all bent out of shape if you use it for
"business". I think response to trouble calls is slower that way too.
What about something like the CLEAR wireless network or one of the cellular
company's 4G wireless some of them have been raving about?
Ron
At 1/14/2011 08:49 AM -0500, James Sumners wrote:
>I'm in south Fulton county and cable (Comcast) stops about 4 miles
>from my house. My options are DSL or satellite. I can't even get 6Mb
>DSL service. 3Mb is the maximum I can get.
>
>On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Jerald Sheets <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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> > Hash: SHA1
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> > Well, ... move? LOL!!!
> >
> > I thought I was in the sticks! I'm in extreme western Paulding county,
> almost to Polk (one county from Alabama).
> >
> > I often say I have to go into town to be in the sticks. Where in the
> heck are you?
> >
> > - --j
> >
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >
> >> On 01/14/2011 07:45 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> >>>
> >>> With Comcast Business in Paulding County, I'm paying $105/mo for 24M
> >>> down, no bandwidth cap and 1 static IP address (as well as 5 DHCP)
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> there is no cable service within 10 miles of my house... I can't even
> >> get Dominos pizza delivered!
>
>
>--
>James Sumners
><a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a>
>
>"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
>pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
>Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
>CH:D 59
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