WiMAX to transform wireless Internet

[rpm]

WiMAX to transform wireless Internet

As US technology giants including Google place a multi-billion dollar bet on WiMAX, backers of the wireless data-streaming format say it will radically change mobile Internet use.

 

[dam]

WiMax is mobile? Then why do I have to have a huge antena installed on my roof?

 

[Nerfherder]

Nothing stoping you from walking around with that big antena.

 

[Tns]

ok so where can i buy two cards?

 

[dominic]

WiMax is mobile? Then why do I have to have a huge antena installed on my roof?

different standards

802.16d -fixed
802.16e - mobile

 

[vodacom3g]

different standards

802.16d -fixed
802.16e - mobile

I'm using .16e and I still have an antenna the size of a dining room table.

But I'm 7Km's away from the tower.....

 

[Tns]

But I'm 7Km's away from the tower.....

wouldn't directional antennas be better?

 

[vodacom3g]

wouldn't directional antennas be better?

At 26dB gain, it's pretty directional.