Topic 'unlicenced wimax or LTE' in forum 'Wireless Service Providers' - dslreports.com

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:20:21 EDT

Semaphore posted : Wimax MAC does not do well with contention. So open freq's would not be good

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:31:47 EDT

ste posted :

said by TomS_:

In my experience it was the WiMAX networks that tried to do indoor coverage that had issues. At least a couple of Australian providers tried it and failed and blamed the technology.

We on the other hand did fixed outdoor installations only and we had great success with it. We used 3.4 and 3.65GHz bands.

With 3.5Ghz it is difficult to get good indoor coverage. High power and short distance is necessary. Additionaly we see equipment is very sensitve to interference. So it is very difficult to get a performant network without a lot of spectrum. Designing the network for outdoor coverage is much easier.

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:39:35 EDT

TomS_ posted : In my experience it was the WiMAX networks that tried to do indoor coverage that had issues. At least a couple of Australian providers tried it and failed and blamed the technology.

We on the other hand did fixed outdoor installations only and we had great success with it. We used 3.4 and 3.65GHz bands.

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:12:01 EDT

raytaylor posted : haha

Was mainly asking because with whitespace coming up int he next couple of years (NZ just started the switchoff of analog tv)
and i have a couple of very small towns with people i would love to put onto prepay usb wimax sticks

Oh well

fixed wireless / airmax it is then

:-)

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:44:10 EDT

ste posted :

said by gunther_01:

Wimax didn't work that well for carriers with licensed frequencies. Why would we want it in an unlicensed form?

Wimax works as expected from a technical perspective. Problem is that a lot of expectations and marketing exceeding reality.
Why you may want WiMAX? Think of it as a variation of Wifi built for larger networks.
- GPS Sync
- Partial Channel Usage
- Beamforming
- High Power
...
But dont expect magic. A 10 Mhz Channel with 64QAM cant deliver more than 50Mbit/s aggregated with optimal conditions. This is the same wether you use wimax,wifi or lte. Existing Wimax gear is limited to 10MHz. So you get higher speeds with wifi doing small cells. But wifi does not scale well. It is built for small cells.

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:15:31 EDT

ste posted : This will not happen as there is no CPE in 2.4. Better try to get some licensed spectrum. It is difficult to avoid self interference using High Power Basestations. Handling interference with competitors would be a challenge as it is not predictable.

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:52:16 EDT

WHT posted : »encrypted.google.com/search?as_q=wimax+fail

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:25:53 EDT

gunther_01 posted : Wimax didn't work that well for carriers with licensed frequencies. Why would we want it in an unlicensed form?
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Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:49:22 EDT

raytaylor posted : Yeah im waiting for someone to say Huawei but im sure there must at least be a company offering wimax on 2.4ghz for small isp's

Re: unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:41:33 EDT

WHT posted : LTE and WiMax are merely technologies, but I don't think you'll find anyone manufacturing those very expensive technologies for unlicensed frequencies when they can sell it to the big name licensed providers.

unlicenced wimax or LTE

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:14:43 EDT

raytaylor posted : Does anyone know if LTE or WiMax can operate in 2.4ghz?

If so, who would you consider to be the equivalent of Ubiquiti in the LTE and WiMax markets from a regional ISP's perspective?