garmst
join:2000-09-17
New York, NY | reply to jdir
Re: WiMAX - is this another ISDN
ISDN was quite nice in its time, when the phone company figured out how to install it residentially.
You don't need a base station for WiMAX, just a reciever. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
 ·Cruzio Internet
| said by garmst  :ISDN was quite nice in its time, when the phone company figured out how to install it residentially. You don't need a base station for WiMAX, just a reciever. Why not? I can think of a gazillion uses for it right now.
Have all my home wireless appliances accessable from 30 miles.
Video conferences with customers without going through an exchange.
Close to instant communications with friends and relatives.
The whole town where I live is only 15 miles across, so wimax just about covers it double over.
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‘Do ye, quieting in your bosoms your strong hearts,
Who of many good things have had your fill even to surfeit,
With what is moderate nourish your mighty desire; for neither will
We yield, nor shall you have all else as you wish.’
Solon |
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jdir
join:2001-05-04
Santa Clara, CA | reply to garmst
No base station? what the hell, I want to transmit and start my gaming network. There goes WiMAX |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
·Cruzio Internet
| said by jdir :No base station? what the hell, I want to transmit and start my gaming network. There goes WiMAX Yes, and my dreams of wimax across the world are dashed ...
Wimax should be just like wireless with more range, the usefullness of this tech is being crushed by greed and security paranoia. |
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