Clearwire: Just Say No

[Fred Weston]

ClearWire is more suited to grandmothers and other people that only
use a computer for browsing and e-mail.  For that, I'm sure it would
work fine.  There's been so much negative press about ClearWire in the
tech community, I'm surprised technically inclined people are still
signing up.

Regarding the VoIP tunneling, surprised that works as well as it does.
 Usually adding additional layers of encapsulation degrades VoIP
pretty fast.

Of course, eventually we'll reach a point where ISPs are so
restrictive and monitor so much that everyone will just end up
tunneling everything through a remote host on a trusted network.  I
laugh now, but I wonder how true that could be in a few years.

On 1/27/07, Tom Marshall <tommy at home.tig-grr.com> wrote:
> > Worst case, I'll setup a tunnel to the Real World for VoIP
>
> I tried this and it works great.  Just needed a tunneling daemon and a few
> iptables rules.  Total time invested was about an hour.  I've spent longer
> on the phone talking to their support reps.
>
> I don't understand how a company can be so myopic as to think that the
> strategy of making life difficult for the average user and annoying the tech
> literate user enough to spread the word that their tactics are hostile is
> worth the short term gain of a captive audience.  But I guess there's
> precedent -- look at the RIAA and MPAA.
>
> The real irony in this absurd situation is that I _did_ check into VoIP from
> Clearwire and they don't provide it in my area (not that I would have paid
> their absurd prices but that's beside the point).  The situation reminds me
> of a jealous ex-boyfriend -- "if I can't have her, then nobody can!"
>
> --
> "Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The
> sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into
> account, the sooner people will start making money again."
>         -- Bruce Schneier
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