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IEEE Standards Board Passes 802.16a

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the movin-on-up dept.

papason writes "Welcome the birth of the IEEE's first wireless MAN standard for broadband wireless access in bands ranging from 2GHz to 11GHz. Yes, the same group that brought you 802.11b has brought you a real broadband wireless access standard. See wirelessman.org for more details."

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  1. Why must MAN always come before WOMAN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When will that wireless WOMAN standard come out?

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

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  3. IEEE Standards Board Passes 802.16a by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... gets two-hundred bucks, and moves onto 802.16b ...

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  4. Sexism out the wazoo by jonman_d · · Score: 4, Funny

    wireless MAN standard

    How sexist! Haven't they heard about politically correct computing?!?

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  5. Re:Great, now only if my ISP cared. by Kethinov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has your ISP ever heard of traffic shaping?

    *Hangs head* My ISP uses MS DOS on their servers. They also claim to be incapable of capping user's bandwidth. Leave. Why pay them for shitty service?

    It's either this, dialup, or satellite. I play games, so low ping is a priority. Since dialup is bad pings and satellite is even worse, I'm stuck with what I'm on.

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  6. woman? by Maskirovka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just to clear a few things up...
    Should our latest acronym WMAN (Wireless Metropolitan Area Network) be pronounced 'woman'? So if someone asks me about my administration experiance, should I brag about how many women I've designed, configured, upgraded, and troubleshot over the years? Sounds like grounds for a certification in network pimping.

  7. Re:Wireless by CityZen · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that's one small step for MAN... ?

  8. Already there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the BROADband part