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WiMax Formed To Promote 802.16 Standard
The Original Yama writes "Intel, Nokia, Proxim, and a bunch of other companies have launched WiMax, a non-profit group founded to certify and promote the IEEE 802.16 wireless networking standard. What's interesting about this standard is that it allows "up to 31 miles of linear service area range and allows users connectivity without a direct line of sight to a base station," all at a shared speed of 70Mbps. This simultaneously blows away 3G mobile and 802.11 technologies."
What's interesting about this standard is that it allows "up to 31 miles of linear service area range and allows users connectivity without a direct line of sight to a base station," all at a shared speed of 70Mbps. This simultaneously blows away 3G mobile and 802.11 technologies."
Yeah. Damn. *31 miles* of users sharing 70Mbps.
Heck, I'll whip out my trusty ol' 56k modem and get better performance.
May we never see th
How long until there's a true standard with every company using different types? I really don't feel like taking 14 different wireless network adapter cards with me everywhere I go to have internet. .11a, .11g, .16, .11b, WHEN WILL THEY CHOOSE SOMETHING?
That doesn't really happen. Microchannel and ED floppies were just flukes :).
Jason
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The Internet is to me information freebased. I am helpless without it.
I am looking forward to a future in which there is global continuous wireless connectivity. Then I can live in my shack in the woods and periodically wander in toward civilization to get supplies.
-Brett
(typing this on somebody else's computer)