[ale] CLEAR wireless on Linux?

Scott Steele roninazure at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 17:05:54 EDT 2011


CLEAR is WiMAX which has to share the towers with other carriers. They lease
the "space" from those towers to provide the bandwidth.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keep in mind that CLEAR is ISP over cell-phone towers.
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Scott Steele <roninazure at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The only thing Clear is useful for is checking your email and light
>> surfing. The speeds are abysmally slow. I wouldn't consider using them as a
>> main ISP for a moment nor pay for  their service. It has been known they
>> throttle customers during prime-time.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:57 PM, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, hey what have we here? It says it works with WiMax and Linux
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.seowonintech.co.kr/en/product/detail.asp?num=111&big_kind=B04&middle_kind=
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 03/24/2011 02:56 PM, H P Ladds wrote:
>>> >> There are Linux drivers for the chip(s) used in the Samsung SWC-U200,
>>> >> and Clear assured me that this modem would work on Atlanta's network.
>>> >
>>> > Looks like the driver is available at
>>> http://code.google.com/p/madwimax/
>>> >
>>> >        --- Mike
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