viperm
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| WiMax Goes To College
Ohh yea one access point for the whole campus!! UMM HUHHH sure people who think Wimax is the end all be all are out of thier mind! it will never be a one access point covers all system unless you are in a one bedroom apt..
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moonpuppy
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | reply to viperm
Re: WiMax Goes To College
it may have the reach for the whole campus but not the bandwidth / cpu power to handle the load |
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Michieru2
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join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL
| Why..
Why?
What's wrong with WiFi it makes perfect sense for small scale deployment such as a college campus while WiMAX will make sense for city wide projects.
It's like everyone is doing crap backwards and on top of that everyone has at least a 802.11b/g card these days on there laptop or there desktop.
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Tzale
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| said by Michieru2  :Why? What's wrong with WiFi it makes perfect sense for small scale deployment such as a college campus while WiMAX will make sense for city wide projects. It's like everyone is doing crap backwards and on top of that everyone has at least a 802.11b/g card these days on there laptop or there desktop. Yeah, but some college campuses can be as big as a small city/town. At least the vast ones with a lot of living green things, heh.... And I'm not talking about the sick college drunks.
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Michieru2
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Miami, FL
| It will be cheaper to use 802.11n equipment which has better throughput than WiMAX at 120Mbps and the upgrade is still cheap.
I know of one vendor who quoted me for a WiMAX card of at least 80 dollars and the AP at around 200 dollars. I believe it was Zyxel.
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Yauch
join:2005-06-24 | reply to Tzale
That's an excellent point, but Ball State isn't a large campus. I've seen much smaller, but if client connections and signals inside buildings weren't an issue, a single wi-fi point could cover this entire campus too. |
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Rob
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said by Michieru2 :Why? What's wrong with WiFi it makes perfect sense for small scale deployment such as a college campus while WiMAX will make sense for city wide projects. It's like everyone is doing crap backwards and on top of that everyone has at least a 802.11b/g card these days on there laptop or there desktop. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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