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Interesting...they list Kerrville, even though there are no Sites Complete for that city (as a sponsor, I can see this). Yet Fredericksburg has a site complete and they don't list that. I wonder what their criteria is...

http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=11102 The Photon is their first LTE phone. Sounds like the GSIII will be their second. They will be able to roam on Sprint LTE. I wonder whether Sprint phones will be able to roam on the parts of C-Spire's network that have LTE in PCS. Could be a nice perk for Sprint customers, since C-Spire will get to rural MS markets before Sprint will.

Don't worry about giving me an excess of information...thanks for the insightful look at what muni fiber has done for you From a guy who is thinking seriously about starting an ISP because you can't do something like Fibrant in TX, all of the above info is quite interesting.

Hopefully sooner. Motorola is coming out with some awesome phones for Verizon, leaving Sprint users with...one modern phone Heck, a Droid Razr M (or Milestone Razr M as they'd have to call it) supporting Sprint's LTE band, at the same price as the VZW version, would be awesome.

Yeah...iPhones have carrier-specific SIMs in them. It's not an "iPhone SIM" quite yet, though Apple certainly wants that.

I could do that. But then the bottleneck is my 'net connection's 5 Mbps upload speed. I'd much rather copy files from the card at 10x that speed, and to the new card at 20x that speed

Got my 64GB card in yesterday. My phone now has more local storage than anyone's...or tied to it...this side of Shenzhen Good thing too...my phone started reporting my 16GB card (that came with my Epic) as damaged a couple days before. I'll have to try getting my data of of it to my desktop tomorrow. Hopefully that's possible...

People will look at me aslant for doing it, but I'll probably get the LTE version. That way I'll have devices capable of running on all four major 4G networks (I'll get a T-Mobile LTE device when those come out) without paying a ton per month for data on the AT&T side. I'm incredibly curious to see what exactly Amazon means by "10 band modem". If they're counting bands in the strict sense (as in, not counting GSM 850 as one band and HSPA 850 as another)...and they aren't counting the dual-band WiFi in as two of the ten, three bands are left over when you overlap quad-band GSM, low-block 700+AWS LTE and HSPA that includes 2100MHz (a common foreign frequency). That leaves high-C 700 (Verizon), SMR and 2500/2600 if you just consider US frequencies. On the other hand, if they're counting each band+technology combination as a 'band" then it's probably quad-band GSM, quad-band HSPA (850/900/1900/2100) and low-700 + AWS LTE, similar to what the iPad 3rd gen AT&T model has. So, significantly less interesting

It could, but it doesn't. My Time Warner Cable connection has no cap, though they do measure my usage. My parents' Verizon DSL connection? No caps, no meters, nothing. Sure, I've consumed a couple gigs in one day over m home WiFi connection, but my behavior changes when I'm on a connection with tons of capacity (50 Mbps on a node that can handle 150 Mbps, vs. a 5 MHz LTE channel or a 3.1 Mbps CDMA channel) and unlimited (or nearly so) data, versus a cellular connection with less data. Which is why you won't see me watching Doctor Who episodes over the LTE connection on my iPad, but on WiFi the show is fair game even on my GSIII.

False. Occasional web surfing, email, occasional photo sending and IM are what my mom and brother use their phones for. They are on the order of 300MB per month (though this is on a 3G-only phone with a 3.2 inch screen). At the other end of the spectrum there's me; I don't tether and I do my heaviest data usage on WiFi but I'll push through a gigabyte, maybe a bit more, per month on 3G. If I'm on a trip to somewhere that doesn't have WiFi, I ad tethering and both the tethered and on-phone usage goes way up...on-phone may surpass 2GB and tethered will be in the hundreds of MBs. That's with LTE in the mix though...if my phone is in a 3G-only area I just use the 1GB plan on my iPad, which I upgraded to 5GB for a long trip. My usage over that month ended up somewhere in the 3.5GB range. To be clear, I'm not at the *far* other end of the spectrum...while still remaining within Sprint's TOS. I don't stream Pandora for eight hours a day, followed by an episode or two of a TV show on Netflix, all while on 3G. On WiFi, sure. On LTE, maybe (but probably not, since I'll have WiFi availability). tl;dr: WiFi offloading at home works. I can be a power user and still use under 2GB. But I'd love not to have that limitation. Hence my sticking with Sprint.

Off topic, except when it comes to your location: are you in Fibrant's service area? do you use them? if so, how's their FTTH network?

I was using a cheapie Wal-Mart inverter to do all the testing, actually. It comes with a 120VAC outlet and a USB port...excellent since I have so many USB-chargeable devices. Ousted the inverter while fully realizing that I was converting 12VDC to 120VAC...back to 12VDC...in the case of the Clear Hub. The adapter is more meaty than most I see today for consumer grade routers...2A instead of 500 mA or even 1A, but if I had the correct cable I could have saved the double conversion.

Got a chance to check out Kerrville's WiMAX tower earlier today. For the meaty details see here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1919-wimax-in-tx-austin-kerrville/page__view__findpost__p__42782 Short version: used a Clear Hub Express for testing at two points and the roads in between. At the two points I had near or actual line of sight to the tower at ~1.00 and ~0.85 miles away. Speeds peaked at nearly 10 Mbps down and close to 1.5 Mbps up, but usually were in the 2-6 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up range.I'm going to guess the tower is backhauled by something with only 10 Mbps of downstream capacity. Latency was par for the course (100-120ms, routed to Dallas, not Houston, by Clearwire). Just in case anyone didn't catch that, the above test was done in ideal conditions with a desktop-class modem a mile or less from the tower with line of sight or close to it, on Clearwire (vs. Sprint) equipment. My guess is that the tower's usable range on a phone is 1.5 miles outdoors, significantly less indoors. The signal appears to be coming from a water tower in the NE quadrant of town; Clear doesn't show a tower location on their map.

Mental note: don't forget your laptop charger. LogMeIn isn't nearly as convenient as a not-dead MacBook sitting in front of you Anyway, I tested out Clear's service in Kerrville at two locations, plus a meandering course in between. At 1101 Sidney Baker (a Dairy Queen) I hit -65 RSSI and a CNR in the high twenties. This climbed to the -50s and mid-thirties, respectively, when I retested at 901 Wheless Ave (corner of Wheless and Washington). In both cases, the tower's backhaul was the limiting factor, not my signal. Speaking of towers, my best guess is that a water tower about 4500 feet southeast of the Wheless location (pretty much in line with the direction of the road at that point...gotta love line of sight) is where Clear has their gear. I think a paging company has some equipment on the tower as well, as do a few government entities and, until recently, a WISP trial of a local telephone cooperative. As far as the backhaul side of things goes, if I didn't know better I'd say the Clear site was being backhauled via a 10M down, 1.5M up Time Warner Cable Business Class connection...over coax! I should've tried connecting to 192.168.100.1 via my modem just to make sure, but they would've tunneled through anything like that, right? More realistically, I'll bet they've got a 10M Ethernet over Copper circuit from Windstream feeding the site, for a total monthly cost somewhere south of $1000. As you might imagine, speeds were highly variable, ranging from less than a megabit down and up to nearly 10 Mbps down and around 1 Mbps up. Latency was around 100-120ms...disregard the reading in this speedtest photo; I don't know what was going on there. Maybe a sudden spike in usage by Sprint WiMAX users "in the know" Apparently Kerrville is in a different region than Austin (rtx...not sure what that stands for...instead of hou...maybe "rural Texas"?), because I pulled a completely different IP (50.11.148.119 vs. 71.xxx.xxx.xxx in Austin). Routing was also quite different; I was in Dallas just a couple hops after my modem, with some level of peering going on (to Google and Softlayer, for example) in addition to connectivity via Level3. Latency was actually worse than in Austin despite the more direct path to Dallas, but for a market that barely even exists (one protection site tower), I can't complain! Certainly wouldn't buy Clearwire service for use only in Kerrville though...the connection is far too variable to be worth $50 per month. By the way, here are a few traceroutes that I took from the two locations (since both had good signals, it doesn't matter which...and I don't remember which anyway): 1 [AS8151] clearmodem (192.168.15.1) 2.060 ms 4.807 ms 3.114 ms 2 * * * 3 [AS65534] 10.41.233.165 (10.41.233.165) 182.998 ms 111.300 ms 145.183 ms 4 [AS16586] 71.22.6.205 (71.22.6.205) 123.153 ms 178.890 ms 177.733 ms 5 [AS3356] xe-9-2-0.edge9.dallas1.level3.net (4.59.118.21) 181.291 ms 107.429 ms 179.865 ms 6 [AS3356] ae-2-70.edge3.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.145.72) 315.331 ms å [AS3356] ae-1-60.edge3.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.145.8) 192.928 ms [AS3356] ae-4-90.edge3.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.145.200) 273.569 ms 7 [AS3356] d.resolvers.level3.net (4.2.2.4) 139.143 ms 121.537 ms 130.066 ms traceroute to hawkhost.com (208.43.49.44), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 [AS8151] clearmodem (192.168.15.1) 2.045 ms 1.868 ms 1.421 ms 2 * * * 3 [AS65534] 10.41.233.165 (10.41.233.165) 120.044 ms 99.783 ms 180.064 ms 4 [AS16586] 71.22.6.205 (71.22.6.205) 327.225 ms 179.341 ms 175.151 ms 5 [AS0] te1-5.bbr01.eq01.dal01.networklayer.com (206.223.118.24) 194.744 ms 121.145 ms 180.454 ms 6 [AS36351] ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.211) 194.481 ms [AS36351] ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.253) 94.447 ms 178.792 ms 7 [AS36351] po1.fcr04.sr05.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.214) 125.305 ms 133.381 ms [AS36351] po2.fcr04.sr05.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.218) 169.869 ms 8 [AS36351] hawkhost.com (208.43.49.44) 103.506 ms 158.866 ms 124.973 ms traceroute to google.com (74.125.227.142), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 [AS8151] clearmodem (192.168.15.1) 2.701 ms 1.622 ms 1.723 ms 2 * * * 3 [AS65534] 10.41.233.165 (10.41.233.165) 104.305 ms 96.642 ms 202.212 ms 4 [AS16586] 71.22.6.205 (71.22.6.205) 112.306 ms 113.720 ms 117.139 ms 5 [AS16586] 71.22.6.130 (71.22.6.130) 192.270 ms 109.067 ms 81.012 ms 6 [AS15169] 72.14.217.204 (72.14.217.204) 112.341 ms 111.849 ms 109.820 ms 7 [AS15169] 72.14.233.67 (72.14.233.67) 185.059 ms 182.437 ms 110.236 ms 8 [AS15169] 216.239.43.187 (216.239.43.187) 199.987 ms 109.281 ms 179.015 ms 9 [AS15169] dfw06s17-in-f14.1e100.net (74.125.227.142) 214.306 ms 108.706 ms 109.829 ms Thus ends my investigation into Clear WiMAX for now...unless someone wants to buy me a day pass to check out connectivity in San Antonio