Quote:Anybody use clearwire or anything like it?

 

Unless you know something different,  Clearwire for the last few years was just a Sprint mobile hotspot until it got shut down completely last year.  Any mobile wifi hotspot from T-Mobile or Verizon is already pretty much what Clearwire was.  Sooner or later, wireless is going to be a very viable replacement for wired video/video streaming.  All the streaming I do is through a 4g mobile hotspot and on either my Roku or my SmartTV.  Though 4g is not the cheapest option right now, the trend is that wireless data is trying to catch up to the fact that what people really want to do on the internet is stream HD video.  They are no longer impressed with being able to use facebook or instagram with their 3GB data plan.  T-Mobile released Binge-On to address this (though in my experience it doesn't work through hotspot tethering).  Verizon did something similar.  The company Aereo is working on gigabit wireless internet to be deployed in the next few year, and then there's all the work on 5g.  Then google has their balloons.  In the end, wireless Internet is just more reliable than wired, and there is more accountability. You are no longer that one guy who's internet doesn't work, your one of a thousand who demands it to work, all the time.  You can't be swept under the rug.

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