http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335103 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:14:08 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:14:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19342952
At the time ISDN was out, it was the fastest speed you could get on a residential access... We're talking 10 to 15 years ago here... DSL did not even exist, much less the current FTTH or FTTN projects.

And YES, at the time, it took me weeks to download the 50 floppies it took to install Slackware Linux 0.99pl13.
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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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19339263 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:10:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19337852 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19337852 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:37:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19337056 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19337056 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:28:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335742 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335742 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:20:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335732 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335732 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:18:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335505 It took a few weeks to get installed (pacbell engineers had to be talked into(reference cavemen and living in the dark ages) doing the install, they said it was too far(dirty lines)) but once it was working it was great, till they started double billing me and charging outrageous amounts for going over, charged by the minute.
I also remember they wanted to charge me full for the 3 weeks I didnt have any service, including a phone.

Then they killed ISDN by coming out with DSL for 100$ cheaper.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335505 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:28:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335300 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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If you go to other parts of the world, such as Europe, everybody as ISDN. Hell, even my grandmother had ISDN, with two bonded channels for data 6 years ago. She had no idea what it was, but DT told her that she could be on the phone and internet at once. i think she paid under 50 euros a month for it.

In Europe, you often see DSL over ISDN, with much larger download and upload rates. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335278 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:38:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335183
You don't need a base station for WiMAX, just a reciever.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335183 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:19:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335103 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/WiMAX-is-this-another-ISDN-19335103 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:03:10 EDT