patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to texans20
Re: Looking to the Future
said by texans20  :Not to mention, it gives home users a viable alternative to their DSL/Cable ISP and increases competition which is great for everyone. Once Xohm is available in my area, I'll take a look to see if I can dump Road Runner. No way in hell unless they have cell density of Richchet, and each cell has its own bandwidth alotment (each one is wired, or wireless backhaul on another frequency band). A cable Fiber Node serves/passes a couple hundred houses at most, which i would say is a 3-6 block radius. And each one gives 40Mbps. Cellphone towers have a 10-30 block radius, and often have lower bandwidth to them. Remember Wimax will never run at the 100mbit. There will be multiple users, and Sprint can't afford to run multiple T3s to each tower. Cell phone systems have a much higher contention ratio. I expect Wimax to be the same. Wimax probably does gain efficency through have less packet/cell/circuit overhead than with Cellular technology. |
