WiMAX to transform wireless Internet

rpm · May 8, 2008

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 · May 8, 2008

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

Nerfherder · May 8, 2008

Nothing stoping you from walking around with that big antena.

Tns · May 8, 2008

ok so where can i buy two cards?

dominic · May 8, 2008

dam said:
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 · May 8, 2008

dominic said:
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 · May 9, 2008

vodacom3g said:
But I'm 7Km's away from the tower.....

wouldn't directional antennas be better?

vodacom3g · May 9, 2008

Tns said:
wouldn't directional antennas be better?

At 26dB gain, it's pretty directional.

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