Re: open in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20446852 en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:03:55 EDT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:03:55 EDT Re: open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446643 anon : Well if you're going to be that picky, a bit is an atomic thing that can't be broken down below an integer value. So millibits as a unit doesn't make any sense at all anyway.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446643 Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:34 EDT Re: open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446852 jay_rm :
said by patcat88 See Profile :

Remember your wimax will be a nice and slow 5mbit/s, or even slower tiers, think ADSL, not cable speeds, and remember the caps.
5Mb is slow ?

please....leave your urban environment once in a while and see what the majority of the US has. My 3.5M/512K wireless service is fine - not "slow" by any means, for what I (and probably 95% of the rest of US households) use it for.

I suspect I would probably make the jump to WiMAX if there was mobility involved (the capability of connecting from anywhere Clearwire offered service) and speeds equaled or exceeded my current fixed wireless.
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"Peace through superior firepower"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446852 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:18:15 EDT Re: open http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446079 Corydon : Minor nit:

5 mbit/s would be some seriously slow service. m (milli) ≠ M (mega), just like b (bit) ≠ B (byte).

/pet peeve, but it makes a difference when you're comparing services!
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Nothing like stiring up the NN folks by their cap running out in 1 hour after streaming HD. Remember, the cable companies are investors on this and they WONT let WiMAX bastardize their Cable HSI, remember that carefully.

Remember your wimax will be a nice and slow 5mbit/s, or even slower tiers, think ADSL, not cable speeds, and remember the caps.

Perhaps Sprint should have advertised Xohm as being "Green", since not building it saves alot of greenhouse gases. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446002 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:51:07 EDT