The Wi-Fi hotspot I set up at the Convention worked pretty well. Very strong signal from Clear. Covered the bourse area pretty well with wi-fi signal and the trade-room had a weaker but usable signal. Below shows the data that passed through the Clear device during the days of the Convention.

I will try to do the same thing next year if the technology doesn't become obsolete first .
Main problem was that many didn't know the service was available as I didn't know for sure it would work at South Point. I'll do some advance announcements with "how to connect" next year. Also, will try to get an a.c. connection that doesn't go off at night. If the Clear modem loses external power, it runs about 4 hours on battery and then turns itself off. It needs a button pushed to come on again when a.c. is restored. Since I often sleep late and don't get there when the doors open, it wasn't available every morning.

I don't have a log of how many users were on line, but the chart below shows the data handled.

I had a similar setup in my hotel room, also with a strong Wi-Max signal. I was not pleased with the data rate that Clear provided, though. It appears to me they don't have their towers set up to handle all their customer requirements at all hours of the day. I found the same to be true at my home in the Portland area, though; many times the data rate is considerably under the 2-3 Mega-bits per second that Clear advertises, even with a max microwave signal from the tower.

I noticed that Jim Follis' web camera also used a Clear modem to provide connection (not the one I set up). With the small amount of camera data transmitted only a few times each minute, I suspect that the camera could have run off the single modem with no data rate problems, but we didn't test that.

If you used, or tried to use the system this year, I'd like to hear whether you had any problems. eMail would be best for comments as most readers are not interested in this technical talk.