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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:Great Things About Australia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    did you know

    that when you take a crap and see bits of corn in it

    it's not corn

    it's actually the "hull" or outer skin of the corn kernel

    which was not digested

    although the body digested the "meat" of the kernel, thus making it hollow

    and now the "hull" is filled with poop

    so it looks like a fully constituted corn kernel (only brown)

    just think about that

    a corn kernel filled with poop

    that is a lot cooler than australia

  2. Have had this in Ireland for Years.... by Shadow_139 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Irish Broadband have offered this is Ireland for Years now .

    The only problem is there a FUCKING CRAP ISP .