[jess101]

To convert Kbps to Mbps, just put a decimal three places from the right. For instance, your 2823 Kbps would become 2.823 or 2.8 Mbs. Your download of 234 Kbps would become .234 Mbps.

Your speeds seem rather slow if you paid for unlimited service. You should be getting around 4-6 Mbps on dowload and .5 Mbps on upload. It's going to vary at any given time and depending on the server you run your speedtest on. Your ping tests (latency) looks about par for Clear.

You didn't mention how you had everything hooked up. Are you running these test directly through the modem, or through a wired or wireless connection? It really shouldn't matter unless you have a very weak Wi-Fi connection.

Your telephone adapter for Clear will only work with line 1 on the adapter unless you get a second number. Line 2 will not work out of the box. You can only plug in one phone to line one unless you get a splitter, but that kind of limits the locations of where you can place your phones, unless you use some very long cords. You could also plug in a cordless phone base into line 1 and spread out some cordless handsets in the house. If you go that route, make sure you get some handsets that run on DECT 6.0 or something other than the 2.4 GHz frequency.

The only other way to get this adapter to run more phones is to plug line 1 of the adapter directly into one of the phone jacks you have for your previous service. YOU DO NOT WANT TO TRY THIS UNLESS YOU FIRST DISCONNECT YOUR INCOMING ANALOG LINE FROM THE PHONE COMPANY WHERE IT COMES INTO YOUR SERVICE BOX! There are voltages on this line that the Clear ATA can't handle.

Don't request that your number be ported to CLEAR until you are completely satisfied with the phone service. This can be done anytime. If it turns out you like the CLEAR service you can then ask for the number to be ported and then disconnect your old telephone line if you'd like to try the option above. I guess the simple answer to your question is that you cannot run 4 phones off 1 CLEAR phone adapter, and your adapter has to be located somewhere where it can be connected to your network.

[NovaCrystallis]

Originally Posted by jess101

To convert Kbps to Mbps, just put a decimal three places from the right. For instance, your 2823 Kbps would become 2.823 or 2.8 Mbs. Your download of 234 Kbps would become .234 Mbps.

Your speeds seem rather slow if you paid for unlimited service. You should be getting around 4-6 Mbps on dowload and .5 Mbps on upload. It's going to vary at any given time and depending on the server you run your speedtest on. Your ping tests (latency) looks about par for Clear.

You didn't mention how you had everything hooked up. Are you running these test directly through the modem, or through a wired or wireless connection? It really shouldn't matter unless you have a very weak Wi-Fi connection.

Your telephone adapter for Clear will only work with line 1 on the adapter unless you get a second number. Line 2 will not work out of the box. You can only plug in one phone to line one unless you get a splitter, but that kind of limits the locations of where you can place your phones, unless you use some very long cords. You could also plug in a cordless phone base into line 1 and spread out some cordless handsets in the house. If you go that route, make sure you get some handsets that run on DECT 6.0 or something other than the 2.4 GHz frequency.

The only other way to get this adapter to run more phones is to plug line 1 of the adapter directly into one of the phone jacks you have for your previous service. YOU DO NOT WANT TO TRY THIS UNLESS YOU FIRST DISCONNECT YOUR INCOMING ANALOG LINE FROM THE PHONE COMPANY WHERE IT COMES INTO YOUR SERVICE BOX! There are voltages on this line that the Clear ATA can't handle.

Don't request that your number be ported to CLEAR until you are completely satisfied with the phone service. This can be done anytime. If it turns out you like the CLEAR service you can then ask for the number to be ported and then disconnect your old telephone line if you'd like to try the option above. I guess the simple answer to your question is that you cannot run 4 phones off 1 CLEAR phone adapter, and your adapter has to be located somewhere where it can be connected to your network.

Those tests were done

1) Wirelessly
2) On the main Desktop PC

And I mention 2 only because I just remembered that the wireless adapter in there isn't that great.

My laptop on the other hand has the Intel WiFi 5100 AGN Link (or w/e the official name is).

Here are my speed results with that from Speedtest.net (Wilson, NC Server). I live in Raleigh.



And thanks for the warning but the Clear rep already told me not to port the number until I was absolutely sure that the service was to our liking.

So far the only thing that bothers me is that it takes a while to load pages on my mom's laptop and the desktop. And to a certain extend on my laptop too.

Is it possibly because of that DHCP thing you mentioned earlier? As well as the NAT routing?