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."

Comments

So What?

[dbhankins]

Who cares who they partner with or what technologies they're pioneering?

They use pop-under ads that get past Firefox's popup blocker.

I'll never be one of their customers.

Boxen (off-topic warning...)

[KingSkippus]

I dunno, I've gotten semi-used to seeing it now, enough that I don't really think about it or slow down when I read it. Who knows? If everybody keeps using it, maybe it will someday become a legitimate plural for "box" and Brian Regan can feel all warm and gooey inside for adding a word to the English language!

everybody seems to use it without even knowing where it comes from

Isn't this true about almost every word that everybody uses?

I'm not trying to be a grammar pacifist or anything, but language does change over time, and it's not at all unusual for small groups to share an internal jargon. No one complains on Fark that "asshat" isn't a real word, it's just something that popped up and stuck.

I don't really like or hate "boxen," but if you want to get rid of it, you might as well try to get rid of stuff like "pwned," the "All your bases" joke, and even more mainstream things like "hacker," "bug," and emoticons. Personally, I'd rather get rid of the pronunciation of Linux as LIE-nucks once and for all.

I guess we've all got our pet peeves. A lady I work with writes e-mail as e'mail, and it bugs me so much that if that catches on, I think I'll just give up and kill myself. (For the record, e-mail is not a contraction, it is a hyphenated word, vaguely acronymical at best.)

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?

How do you know he's not a Unix clustering professional?

At any rate, thanks for the etymology of the word. I didn't know that, and now it is kind of funny and makes sense.

Re:This is News?

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Meme: Noun. The opposite of youyou.