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Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card
krispy78 writes "If you're looking forward to the day your laptop has WiMax built in and can access wireless broadband as easily as WiFi, you're not alone. But the 802.16e mobile WiMax standard is yet to be finalized on paper, and we'll be lucky to see it the first products this side of 2007. In Australia, a wireless PCMCIA card has been released that comes close to the "WiMax ideal". It appears to Windows like a regular WiFi card (no heinous login clients to run) but can pick up wide-area wireless broadband signals. The network that runs the cards ("Navini Ripwave") is apparently being rolled out in USA and other countries too."
That thing must really have an amazing range!
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1) Unwired (www.unwired.com.au) unleashes this card.
2) John Howard knows how to take care of the muzzie extremists before they strike.
3) We will phase out analog TV before the USA.
4) Topless beaches.
5) 3G phone systems. How's that UTMS going you AT&T/Cingular tards?
6) Topless beaches.
7) It's far from America and even further from England.
8) Car accidents are called "smashes"
9) Drunk driving is called "drink driving"
If you live anywhere else, WAYSA?
You aussies have computers?!
You aussies have computers?!
Yeah, but we run into problems, because the endianness switches once you are south of the equator.
(My deepest apologies, but I can't pass up the opportunity)
I think the submission only makes such a big deal out of it because it must have been really tough to develop this while fighting off dingos and kangaroos and crocodiles and throwing boomerangs around and playing didgeridoos.
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That would only stop once the USA finally shot Irwin.
"Cricky would you look at the bullet"
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What's particularly impressive about Unwired's card over all other solutions is that it doesn't need any godawful proprietary software clients to log in to the network.
Except Windows.