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Intel Pushes 802.16a Wireless MAN Standard
An anonymous reader writes "The 802.16a standard, approved in January of this year, is a wireless metropolitan area network technology that will connect 802.11 hot spots to the Internet and provide a wireless extension to cable and DSL for last mile broadband access. It provides up to 50-kilometers of range and allows users to get broadband connectivity without needing a direct line of sight with the base station. The wireless broadband technology also provides shared data rates up to 70-Mbit/s."
LAN = Local Area Network
WAN = Wide Area Network
MAN = Metropoliton Area Network
WOMAN = Wide Open Metropolitan Area Network, which is what most of those 802.11 networks will be...
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Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
They had better make a standard for the naming of all these standards, or else my head is going to start spinning.
Right on the heels of this article, I'm more worried about War Cooking... gangs of nerdish thugs driving around cities, looking for open access to my microwave.
07:10 AM Cook for 10 minutes
07:20 AM Done
07:22 AM Cook for 15 minutes
07:37 AM Done
07:48 AM Cook for 5 minutes
07:53 AM Done
08:04 AM Cook for 3 minutes
08:07 AM Done
08:14 AM Cook for 25 minutes
Smoke alarm goes off, firemen arrive, haul smoking carcass of microwave out into street.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If a Pringles can is able to extend the range of 802.11 wireless LAN to several km, then a similar application of tubular snack food waveguide technology to this new standard ought to solve the question of "are we alone in the universe" once and for all!
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
Plug em in
Wires are the future
When all you wireless guys cancer ridden corpses are long since buried, those of us with wires will be enjoying the fruits of the new millenium.
Ever try to assasinate someone with piano 'air'? No. You need wire.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Yes, except you won't know where to find it, and the equipment will always fake a link light, so even if you think you've found it, you can't be sure.
Don't forget that they also tend to be highly unstable, suffer from monthly outages, and require enough regular maintenance that you'll likely have less time to spend fragging with the guys.
Watch out for the frequently required diamond upgrade too!
Blockwars: a real-time multiplayer game similar to Tetris.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
>...the CDMA carriers
So? GPRS is here today and you pay through the nose and sometimes through other orifices I'm too polite to mention.
Cell carriers have a huge incentive to bill per megabyte (or kilobyte). It may be the only way they're going to turn a profit. Wireless designed for a MAN has a huge incentive not to pay per byte, but to give it away and bill as a "last mile" carrier a la DSL, Cable, etc.
Heh, I can't wait to see my 3G bill after getting those new Mandrake ISOs.
"Honey, did you download that new microsoft patch?"
"Oh yes, I always patch."
"That damn thing cost us $59.24 in transfer fees plus a $40.00 surchage for using that much bandwidth during peak business hours."
"You're the one that wanted the wireless not me!"
"So? I told you to only use it between 2 and 4:30 am CST!"
"That's it, I'm spending the night at my sister's."