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Ball State University gets license to test service
(old news - 03:55PM Sunday Jan 28 2007)
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Ball State University in Indiana which “ranked as the top wireless campus in the country in 2005, has been granted an experimental, six-month license from the Federal Communications Commission to test WiMAX” for future use on the campus. Because of the reach of WiMax signals, it should take only one WiMax access point to provide service to the entire campus. College campuses are often a place where new technology gets its jumpstart, and Ball State is at the forefront as the first U.S. university to test WiMax against the existing wireless internet systems. See the complete article from StarPress.

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viperm
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WiMax Goes To College

Ohh yea one access point for the whole campus!! UMM HUHHH sure people who think Wimax is the end all be all are out of thier mind! it will never be a one access point covers all system unless you are in a one bedroom apt..

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Joe12345678

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Re: WiMax Goes To College

it may have the reach for the whole campus but not the bandwidth / cpu power to handle the load
moonpuppy

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Will Dave Letterman make jokes about it....

It is his alma mater.

Michieru2
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Why..

Why?

What's wrong with WiFi it makes perfect sense for small scale deployment such as a college campus while WiMAX will make sense for city wide projects.

It's like everyone is doing crap backwards and on top of that everyone has at least a 802.11b/g card these days on there laptop or there desktop.
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Re: Why..

said by Michieru2 See Profile :

Why?

What's wrong with WiFi it makes perfect sense for small scale deployment such as a college campus while WiMAX will make sense for city wide projects.

It's like everyone is doing crap backwards and on top of that everyone has at least a 802.11b/g card these days on there laptop or there desktop.
Yeah, but some college campuses can be as big as a small city/town. At least the vast ones with a lot of living green things, heh.... And I'm not talking about the sick college drunks.

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Michieru2
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Re: Why..

It will be cheaper to use 802.11n equipment which has better throughput than WiMAX at 120Mbps and the upgrade is still cheap.

I know of one vendor who quoted me for a WiMAX card of at least 80 dollars and the AP at around 200 dollars. I believe it was Zyxel.
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That's an excellent point, but Ball State isn't a large campus. I've seen much smaller, but if client connections and signals inside buildings weren't an issue, a single wi-fi point could cover this entire campus too.

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said by Michieru2 See Profile :

Why?

What's wrong with WiFi it makes perfect sense for small scale deployment such as a college campus while WiMAX will make sense for city wide projects.

It's like everyone is doing crap backwards and on top of that everyone has at least a 802.11b/g card these days on there laptop or there desktop.
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