Does Anyone Here Use 4G Internet?

[sleepy]

I was looking around after Druadic's excellent WIFI post and...
I Just Woke Up After a Long Slumber!

4G is not as tempting as DX WIFI, unless you can afford it, but...
uncapped home Internet speeds up to 1 Gigabit/sec. download for $45 Mo.
WOW! That's almost 60 TIMES FASTER THAN Turbo Cable Internet.
That is the ability to download 90 full HDTV channels in Real Time and still watch a Netflix in real time, but as long as the server is uploading at the max speed. If no servers provide the same speed, then the download is limited to their upload rate, but if they do work that fast, with 4G you got it that fast.

Which explains perfectly why the cable giants like Time Warner are suddenly offering their top high speed services at the same $35/Mo. rate whereas last year they wanted $70/Mo. for 15Mbits/sec. Turbo Internet.
Unless 4G in practice is just too good to be true, The Giants have been blown totally out of the water.

So, does anyone here use 4G for the desktop or laptop and what are your experiences with the service?

 

[mrschultz]

4G is not as tempting as DX WIFI, unless you can afford it, but...
uncapped home Internet speeds up to 1 Gigabit/sec. download for $45 Mo.

Where? What company? I'd get that if it was available here and truly uncapped. I'm paying $30/month for 3Mbps DSL.

All the ones I see for 4G have ridiculously low caps, something like 15GB/month and you pay an extra $10 for every 10GB/month you go over the cap.

 

[sleepy]

Hold up, that is "no speed caps", not download caps/throttling.
But of course, it appears to be too good to be true.

Clear:
http://www.clear.com/callnow/call?cpao=111&cpca=LAX+NB&cpag=4G+3G&kw=4g[p]&s_kwcid=TC|9631|4G||S|p|6915900582&gclid=CKCKjvje56cCFQgPbAodUSeMbQ#

But they appear to be throttling download speed after 7 Gb./Mo. use .: .:

http://forums.clear.com/clearcom/topics/questions_for_robl_re_throttling_acceptable_use

Which is why I asked what the user experience has been with 4G after finding these Clear folks.

 

[tiltjlp]

I just love these Technical Threads. I'm amazed how it's possible to know what every word on its own means, but when I read them together, I wonder what planet I'm on. I do have a somewhat, I think,.related question?

When I watch YouTube stuff, or tried to watch NCAA games online, they bog down, with a circular spinning arrow on the screen of the YouTube or NCAA window. So that there is either lag time, or I can't really watch the game. Is that because I have a really slow connection, or because I have an old, worn out computer with a 14" eMachines monitor that must be 10 years old?

 

[Shockman]

It's the bandwidth (slow connection). I bet mine is slower though. (out of suggested range DSL).

I can stream movies on Hulu without pause, but they are 280p and 360p tops usually. Most other sites have lag, but higher resolution, so require a faster connection.

 

[Rick2007]

My wife has a new T Mobile G4 Phone. We can tether it to both our Laptop and
our Office PC. The best feature is that we no longer tie up our phone line with Dial Up service. The download speed varies quite a bit. Sometimes fast and then it seems really slow.
Still it is much better than our old Dial Up Speed. We pay $30 for unlimited internet accsess.

Rick