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Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wide-open-spaces dept.

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."

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  1. That's some range! by intmainvoid · · Score: 5, Funny
    So this card is being released in Australia... but the network is apparently being rolled out in USA and other countries too.

    That thing must really have an amazing range!

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  2. Re:Australian Angle by FinestLittleSpace · · Score: 4, Funny

    You aussies have computers?!

  3. Re:Australian Angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You aussies have computers?!

    Yeah, but we run into problems, because the endianness switches once you are south of the equator.

  4. Obligatory Windows Sledge by denebola · · Score: 4, Funny

    FTFA

    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.