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Forget about Wi-Fi VoIP, Vonage going WiMax
kamikaze-Tech writes "Being reported on the Vonage VoIP
Forum in an article entitled Vonage, Wimax Provider
Team Up it appears Vonage is partnering with
TowerStream to allow you to make calls up to 30 miles away via WiMax. WiMax, another name for the 802.16 standard for
wireless broadband, has a range of up to 30 miles and can deliver broadband
at a theoretical maximum of 75 megabits per second, which is more than 20 times
the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially. WiMax serves as
a partial successor to the popular Wi-Fi wireless protocol, which works over far
shorter distances, measured in feet rather than miles."
TowerStream typically charges about $600 a month for a 1.5mbps connection
Isn't this a bit on the expensive side?
As far as I can tell, from their website, TowerStream really only services businesses. Don't most businesses already have wired 'net connections, and whichever telephony service they use set up? Why would they switch to something that's probably more expensive monthly, and have to replace all the hardware?
without the need for external boxen
Do you realize that "boxen" is a made-up plural first as a joke by comedian Brian Regan to make fun of his grasp of english grammar as a child, and that it is never used but as a (now overused) feeble joke amongst Unix and clustering professionals?
Do you realize then, as a result, that your using "boxen" instead of "boxes" makes you look either like (1) you blindly follow a meme to computer-educated folks, and (2) an ill-educated person to everybody else?
I don't mean to be rude, or be a grammar Nazi, but that word really gets on my nerves, because everybody seems to use it without even knowing where it comes from, and how it makes those who use it come across...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Link-level encryption was designed into WiMax from the beginning. There are plenty of resources about it.