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Speakeasy Will Test IEEE 802.16 In Downtown Seattle

Posted by timothy on from the share-with-your-neighbors dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Speakeasy will be testing a WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) network in downtown Seattle. If successful, plans to roll out similar networks in other cities will follow."

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  1. speakeasy kicks ass by seanadams.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just got their new VOIP service and it works great. They control the QOS from end-to-end, so it doesn't drop out when you're using the intarweb.

    Kick-ass ISP.

  2. Re:With any luck ... by g3000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    God, I love living in Seattle. First, stories like this, now Wimax. Grunge is dead! Long live wireless!

  3. Re:802.16? by femto · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I've got a suspicion that isn't actually correct. According the IEEE 802 committee (see first paragraph of the 'history' section)
    The first meeting of the IEEE Computer Society "Local Network Standards Committee", Project 802, was held in February of 1980. (The project number, 802, was simply the next number in the sequence being issued by the IEEE for standards projects).
    So it is true that the first 802 meeting was in February 1980, but it doesn't follow that the number '802' is derived from that fact. Indeed, the IEEE implies, by the use of the word 'simply', that the two are unrelated.

    The story I've heard is that the '80' does relate to the year 1980 but the '2' is a sequence number saying 802 was the second committee formed in 1980. If the first meeting had been in March, IEEE802 would still be IEEE802 (and not IEEE803).

    Can anyone provide clearer references to show that the '80' really does relate to 1980 (not just a coincidence) and whether the '2' is really just a sequence number (and not the month)?

  4. Re:Beginning Downtown? by The+Cisco+Kid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It all depends on the frequency - some frequencies penetrate different materials with different effectiveness. I havent checked, but if we're lucky, maybe WiMax uses an NLOS frequency.