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The Future of Wireless Connectivity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-is-better dept.

Unimonomous writes "CoolTechZone.com analyzes the future of wireless connectivity with WiMax standard. "WiMax is an upgrade from Wi-Fi and offers brilliant advantages over its predecessor. The obvious one being extended range (up to 15 miles), which means that establishing a few towers would pretty much make the entire city connected. Now this probably won't matter to those of us with 24/7 connectivity, but people living in rural and undeveloped areas would surely benefit from it." Update looks like the site buckled. Sorry.

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  1. Why would anyone want to use WiMax by WillAffleckUW · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    when you get get Gigabit Internet speeds on Internet2 that make WiMax look like it's sick?

    Lots of hype for this, but I still don't see why it's supposed to be that good when I can easily set up a four-port wireless 11b/g base station at my home, pop on the encryption, and get better service and security.

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  2. Jeez by handelaar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How much of a swine do you have to be to take a site down with a Slashdotting in the morning... ...and then hit them again in the afternoon?

    These guys say something about your mother, Taco?