xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
3 edits | reply to en102
Re: Performance
It can be compared to EVDO. Sprint supplies about 1.4-3Mbps, maybe more to EVDO sites. Many are able to get 2Mbps at times but the average is 700k-1Mbps.
WiMAX sites will likely be supplied 10Mbps minimum, so the average will likely be 2-4Mbps, with peaks near 10Mbps with low usage and near a site.
btw, the image above isn't mine, it's from the article. |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
| If it can be compared to EDVO, then I can assume like EDVO, there will be plenty of deadspots. On the Southside of Chicago, EDVO is notorius for being inconsistent. I can't see how this made frontpage of BBR. They took 12 people with laptops and a few with cell phones, put them in a virtually a straight line with minimal intrusions and got connectivity....great. Now lets see 1000 people with boundries from Lake to Van Buren and Michigan to Canal. The results will be totally different.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to xenophon
I've never used EVDO. UMTS/HSDPA works well for me though (~100 ms latency tethered to cell phone)
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
1 edit | reply to S_engineer
said by S_engineer  :If it can be compared to EDVO, then I can assume like EDVO, there will be plenty of deadspots. On the Southside of Chicago, EDVO is notorius for being inconsistent. I can't see how this made frontpage of BBR. They took 12 people with laptops and a few with cell phones, put them in a virtually a straight line with minimal intrusions and got connectivity....great. Now lets see 1000 people with boundries from Lake to Van Buren and Michigan to Canal. The results will be totally different. Yeah, wireless broadband performance will ALWAYS vary widely. It's the nature of the beast. If you want to be stuck to wired broadband go for it. But I've dumped my cable modem for EVDO and never looked back, don't miss wired at all.
WiMAX will be even better and in more variety of devices. For WiMAX devices that use MIMO antennas, there will be less variance. But tower/site load will always be tough to manage as well for the carriers. |
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