What is the Current Status of WiMAX?

Posted by Cliff on Monday September 12, 2005 @06:20AM from the last-mile-broadcast-broadband dept.

PalletBoy asks: "I live in BFE (read 'remote') Pennsylvania where BroadBand is not available in any form save satellite, which is no good for price and latency reasons (curse my MMO addiction!). My big question is: what is the -actual- current status of WiMAX technology? Different sites have me believing different things and I can't find an exact answer to the question 'When will I be able to buy a WiMAX router and cards so I can remotely receive broadband?' When will WiMAX (802.16) be solidly standardized, out, and affordable? Or is it already there?"

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Re:Background by marcantonio · 2005-09-12 06:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You sir, are a KARMA WHORE! Geez, at least use a different link...
Re:Completely offtopic, but... which OS does host by rincebrain · 2005-09-12 06:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That'd be a bitch to do, off the top of my head.

If I were doing it, I'd keep a list of default services machines tend to have if they're of X distro, as well as a list of any nonstandard responses the services give.

nmap has a nice way of telling you what versions of the kernel might be running, but that's all I've got.

Also, mod parent offtopic. :)

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