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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. Re:Australian Angle by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hyped up the Australian angle? It mentioned the word "Australia" once as the place the card was available.

    Maybe someday Australians won't suffer from cultural cringe and feel the need to wince whenever their country is mentioned in public.....

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  2. Range? by wondercool · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the range of this product? When I think WiMax I think 15 miles or so. Nowhere is there any mention of how far you can be away of the antenna.

    If the range is the same as iBurst I don't see much improvement. Only pricing will make a difference.