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WiMAX For Business Internet?

Posted by timothy on from the which-acronym-for-the-new-now dept.

William writes "Does anyone have firsthand experience with using WiMAX for internet access? Our company is on a T1 line right now and we are looking to upgrade our internet speeds. WiMAX seems to be the most affordable and cost-effective solution in our area [San Francisco], but I have no personal experience with it so far. How is the performance and reliability with WiMAX? I would appreciate any insight you all might have. Thanks in advance!"

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  1. Clearwire Seattle isn't so hot by ShadowRangerRIT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No personal experience, but my coworkers who have tried the Clearwire service in Seattle have been unimpressed. Relatively low speed (1 Mbps, or about 120 KB/s), high latency. Can't speak for San Francisco though.

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  2. I don't want to sound pragmatic or anything by zappepcs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    especially here on /. but why doesn't your company get a WiMax connection AND and ADSL connection and bridge them through your router?

    That gives you both improved performance and redundancy in the case of an outage.

    Yep, that disaster recovery planning is for small businesses also. You'll enjoy the greater speeds on normal days, and when there is an outage you'll be very glad to have the reduced performance.

    Of course, that is just a suggestion. Not like I'm a CTO or anything. I just act like one on /.

    Cheers

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