The Last iSpot Post (for now)

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To close out our initial Clear iSpot coverage, I shot a screencast to walk you through MAC spoofing (on a Mac), provide a look at the device’s local web UI, and demonstrate solid speeds on the edge of the 4G WiMax network.

Earlier iSpot coverage:

For reference, once connected, the local iSpot web console can be found at 192.168.1.1 with a default username and password of ‘admin’.

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11 thoughts on “The Last iSpot Post (for now)”

  1. After taking another look at their coverage map, I’m starting to wonder if I’m really on the fringe of the network. It seems to suggest I should have a decent signal. So either there’s interference at my home location (which could be – I’ve had problems with other wireless signals), I’m not close to a tower, or the iSpot isn’t accurately determining the quality of my connection. Regardless, these speeds are solid. Not that I actually need WiMax at home.

  2. Please keep us updated if they figure out how to unfix the MAC fix. They are supposed to begin service in the Twin Cities before the end of the year and I’m having geek cramps not being able to get one now.

  3. I live in NY and would love to get one of these at the $29.99 price. I travel to covered areas quite a bit and want to get in at the low price, but Clear REFUSES to sell it to me because I am not in the coverage area. 3 levels of customer support and nobody could override the system.

    They are so worried about selling to someone with no coverage that they make it impossible to sell to someone who is aware of that and still willing to buy.

    The last rep asked me when the next time I would be in a coverage area would be — maybe I could have it shipped to my hotel!

  4. Dave, I was able to order online given similar circumstances. I put my office address into the address checker. Once I cleared that hurdle, I had it shipped to my home address. (Ironically, in reality I have service at home but none at work – so their widget was wrong in both cases.)

  6. found an uncommented URL for enabling tethering via USB.

    192.168.1.1/html/rndis.html

    however even if you check the box and save the changes, i would not get windows to recognize the device over USB, wifi does get turned off when you connect it, but even with the driver installed it does nothing.

    what would really be nice would be to expand the white list from 00:00:00:00:00:00 to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
    =]

  8. I ordered the iSpot during the $29.99 sale period, and I’m thrilled. I’m getting just over 4mbps here in the Austin area. Mac spoofing in Windows 7 was a cinch with the right software, and you can’t beat the price!

  9. Darrell,
    Can you suggest to us what you used within Windows 7 for spoofing. I am hoping to find something that will actually hold the setting so I dont have to reconfigure my MAC address everytime I want to use my iSPOT. If that is not possible, at least I would like it to be fairly intuitive and easy.
    Thanks,
    Ron

  10. The funny thing is im getting 3 to 4 down and 1.5 up on my iphone and on my ipsot im getting 1.5 to 2.3 down and 1 up. i was thinking it would be 5 to 6 down and 1.5 up. I am probably going to send it back i looks like at&t is making improvements to its network.. I did a field test of 85% of vegas not just my house.. 25 different areas to be exact same result every time the ispot has yet to clock a faster speed than my iphone.

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