wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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| Wimax certainly looks good......
I am pretty confidant that wimax will come to market and will help to alleviate the always terrbible "last mile" problem many companies face. However the timeframes are still up in the air in my opinion. The other thing that I question is their claims of 30 mile range. I see plenty of wifi or wisp retailers selling bundles that offer "50 to 70 mile range" with existing 802.11b and 802.11g products coupled with special antennas. I have not really seen a comparison between the two (wimax and wifi backahaul) so I can't say how much better or different wimax is than these homebrew 802.11 solutions you can find all over the web. My last issue is not so much with wimax, but more with consumers impressions of what it will do. Wimax is NOT meant to be a wifi replacement. It is my understanding that wimax is meant to be a wireless backhaul to the internet. Customers who purchase wimax will use it simply like they use a regular T1 line. They will still need/want to create their own wired/wireless network in there home or place of business to share this internet connection. I think intel is trying to hype up this product by letting peoples imaginations run wild, while not really trying to hard to clarify what their new technology will do. |
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|  said by wifi4milez  :
I am pretty confidant that wimax will come to market and will help to alleviate the always terrbible "last mile" problem many companies face.
That's the argument used by the WIMAX crowd that I have the most problems with.
In my own situation, I have a big last mile problem that WIFI doesn't solve. Unfortunately there nothing about WIMAX makes it perform any better. The problems are all NLOS. The terrain NLOS problems make distances longer than a few miles irrelevant. The "trees" NLOS problems aren't affected by WIMAX at all. The major part of any solution will have to be using lower frequencies (independent of the tech used on those frequencies). |
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