The Future of Wireless Connectivity

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.

Comments

Re:Use Mirrordot!

[TripMaster Monkey]

Use Mirrordot!

And get the same error message as the original URL!

Sure we'll see it in rural areas, why not?

[WillAffleckUW]

Who is going to pay to set up a tower to give 20 people internet?

Good point, but then why is the world's largest wireless cloud in rural Oregon?

Seems to me that we should pay less attention to trying to tell people what they want and how they should all wear the latest fashion and use the latest $2000 laptop and more time in noticing that they are buying hybrid cars instead of SUVs, buying $500 laptops with Linux or BSD instead of $2000 laptops, and maybe they want to install high-speed wireless in rural areas because when you're driving the truck, combine, baler, or other farm machine around your giant farm you find it kind of hard to get near a land line and short-range wireless.

If people ignored the elitist cruft we get from the supposed Elites more often, the world would be a better place, and we wouldn't be wasting all that money in foreign wars for no reason.