View Full Version : Intel's CEO says WiMAX competitive with DSL, cable
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=8413807
"WiMAX, which should be capable of 50 megabits to 100 megabits per second, is "significantly better than what we typically look at with DSL and cable," Barrett said. "I think that will be very competitive with those technologies, and especially where those technologies aren't built out, in rural areas."
stoke
07-05-2005, 10:05 AM
"Most of us who have DSL or cable at home do not have good broadband but kind of half-ass broadband, which doesn't really allow for good streaming video or that kind of stuff," he [Barrett] said.
LOL - I would have loved to have seen that quote thrown at teklom during the hearings.
Very generic article - 50-100MB/s is the Maximum capacity.
2 users = 25-50MB/s, 4 users = 12.5-25MB/s.
So - 50 users per tower for 1-2MB/s speed. Shame.
I wonder how IBurst does it?
[)roi(]
08-05-2005, 02:08 PM
That's simply means that we have the full-ass version of broadband... :mad:
seburn
08-05-2005, 03:11 PM
"Most of us who have DSL or cable at home do not have good broadband but kind of half-ass broadband, which doesn't really allow for good streaming video or that kind of stuff," he [Barrett] said.
LOL - I would have loved to have seen that quote thrown at teklom during the hearings.
Very generic article - 50-100MB/s is the Maximum capacity.
2 users = 25-50MB/s, 4 users = 12.5-25MB/s.
So - 50 users per tower for 1-2MB/s speed. Shame.
I wonder how IBurst does it?
Its quite easy ... they don't!
You take that 1mb and you shape it till only email and internet work, you cap it so if someone still trys another way to use the speed they still get caught.
You give some customers 900kb and others 40kb at random.
You hire guys who don't even know wat broadband is and put them in the call center.
You design many ways to fix the problem making sure that none of them work.
Done now you just market and sell the product with false promises.