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What is the Current Status of WiMAX?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. Verizon commercials by DroopyStonx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I see the verizon commercials all the time for wimax. I think it's $60 a month for "anywhere" connectivity".

    Not bad as long as the speeds are realistic and not lagged in any way, shape, or form. Kinda worthless, IMO, if you couldn't do something like play a steady game of WoW while riding a bus.

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  2. Re:Background by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Don't use mod points to mod this down, when the mod points could be better used modding one of Trip Master Monkey's famous "cut and paste the full text" posts +1000 insightful!!!1

  3. Re:Background by marcantonio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You sir, are a KARMA WHORE! Geez, at least use a different link...

  4. Completely offtopic, but... which OS does host run by 01101101+01100101 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hiya folks, mod me down to oblivion if you wish but I've been searching for ages for the answer to this question, and in my desperation I'm turning to Slashdot in the full and certain knowledge that I will be modded down to Australia and burned alive by flaims... but,

    How do you tell which linux distribution a host is running? I've tried http://www.dnsstuff.com/ and searching google relentlessly.... any help? Pretty please?

  5. Re:Completely offtopic, but... which OS does host by rincebrain · · 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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  6. informative Shitshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To have to decide similarly grisly FVrreBSD used to thing for the