[ale] CLEAR wireless on Linux?

[Scott Steele]

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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