Yesterday my download speed was measured by Numion.com at 46kilobytes per second on Clearwire. I couldn’t even get enough speed to open up their website to complain.
Ah, but am I one of those bandwidth hogs that deserves to be throtteled” back. No. My average daily use is below 100 megabytes. I download a movie from Netflix about once a month simply to justify keeping it.
Clearwire advertises unlimited usage at up to 4g speeds. They achieve that very rarely. Most of the time my download speed is between 1g to 2g. If I complain, they reset my modem and the speed picks up for a while. I get so tired of fighting with them I usually just take what I get.
From what I’ve read on DSLReports, some people get great service from Clearwire and some don’t, depending on the tower being used. Keep in mind that Clearwire is a company that is barely staying solvent, and they are going to be loading more and more traffic on their network to try to stay in business.