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EvDO High-Speed Wireless vs. 802.11

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-worse-than-flying-cars dept.

willll writes "The Washington Post is running a story about EvDO (Evolution Data Only), a high-speed wireless technology. It can work anywhere that a mobile phone can work, one of its main advantages over WiFi. Companies such as Verizon and Lucent are looking into the technology." From the article, I'm not sure that EvDO can be directly compared to WiFi connections (and the article does not mention current long-range 802.11 ISPs), but it's still interesting.

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  1. The question on all of our minds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can it transfer Ogg Vorbis files?

  2. 802 11 wins hands down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    because you mr moderator are a weirdie beardie hit with a nerft poft! i nid it mynelf...

  3. ORANGE JEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh do me you sweet sons of bitches.

  4. Slashdot Math: 30% + 40% + 10% = 100% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rather than face the problem of editors bitch-slapping threads, the Slashcoders have decided just to make it private the number of actual moderations.

    Clearly it is to cover up modbombing. Expect an increase in modbombs, but we won't be able to find them any longer. They'll be covered in a little mathematical slight of hand. Now, how does this scale? You're adding in a few computations every query. I thought 'how does it scale' was always the grand question. I'm sure it does an okay job at scaling, but what has been achieved? What have the users gained? Nothing. What have the editorial members gained? Ability to squash discussion undetected.

    Not only is this hiding the true problem, the percentages don't even make sense. Waiting for Taco's "explanation".

  5. Just Verizon? by IcEMaN252 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is particularly true in Verizon's case. However, they have implemented an innovative load-balancing system: when they think you have been on long enough, your call will be dropped to give someone else a chance.

    Verizon isn't the only provided that drops long calls, its the defacto way to let someone new on when the tower is full.

    Now, I wouldn't think Verizon would be as bad off as Cingular. Verizon is CDMA based (Code-Division) as opposed to TDMA (Time-Division) that Cingular is based on. You'd think CDMA would have an advantage. Pictures aren't on the site aparently, but they explain the differences well here, or just do some Googling.

    To tangent off this slightly... My brother just got a VoiceStream phone from work. He works in the city and we live in the 'burbs. There's apparently only one tower in the area. If you leave the phone by the window, it will go up and down in signal strength from full to 1 bar (of four) in the course of about ten minutes. As far as we can reason, its because someone is making a call.

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