Dooger,
Wimax, like 802.11, supposedly flters within the card. However, like
wifi it doesn't work so well. The number of APs required to cover a
region is still very large, and the bandwidth available decreases as the
number of users and other RF sources in the same spectrum rise.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending Comcast or any of the other
incumbent ISPs in the US. But I don't think Wimax is the solution.
Unfortunately, in order to reach reasonable speeds for Internet access,
(in my mind this is >100Mbps aggregate delivered symmetrically) will
likely require building out fiber to the curb.
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use
regular expressions'. Now they have two problems." --— Jamie Zawinski.
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:33 -0700, dooger watts wrote:
> Will acknowledge that my understanding of wimax is limited--but from
> what I've discovered it's the wimax card that does the filtering. And
> that it ain't flying in the UK is no surprise as their hi-speed is even
> more of a monopoly shop there than here.
>
> But in SA it's very much alive and well. That's where I first heard of
> it, via a friend in Sao Paolo who used routinely to send me thirty and
> forty-meg attachments on email till I hinted at the long d'load times on
> this end and asked her what kind of speeds she was getting.
>
> The day after the mayor of Philly decided that all of Philadelphia would
> have free internet and started implementing wiMax, bomcast invaded the
> beltway and launched their anti-wimax lobby. They are happy to go on
> keeping the terms "internet" and "affordable" mutually exclusive.
>
> (The fact that they actually acknowledged that they've been throttling
> bandwidth is perhaps a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
>
> Mike Cherba wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 08:56 -0700, dooger watts wrote:
> >> Still no wimax in amerika. 40mbps wireless for 20 bux a month,
> >> piggybacking on existing cells--that's what the rest of the world has.
> >>
> >> The bomcast lobby has really been effective at keeping this out. So
> >> effective most amerikans have never even heard of wimax.
> >>
> >
> > Dooger,
> > I'd have to beg to differ. I haven't seen Wimax take off in any of the
> > other countries that I regularly visit or support next gen home gateway
> > development in. ( Japan, Korea, Taiwan, UK, Germany, etc) The next
> > generation seems to be a lot of PON stuff,
> > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network )
> > or faster/better cable/DSL.
> >
> > Besides, we do have Wimax here. What do you think Clearwire is? Wimax
> > isn't neccesarily any faster, or any more symmetrical. In fact wireless
> > as an internet access method lends itself very well to an asymetrical
> > service model. Plus with the variety of other wireless devices active
> > in the US the RF interferance issues are going to be a big problem for
> > quite a while. Not so mention the insecurity of the link.
> >
> > I'd suggest that it isn't the existing broadband providers that are
> > keeping this out, but rather the inherent difficulties in rolling out
> > this service in a profitable manner. (Which is equivalent to the
> > building out of a nationwide cellular network.)
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > "The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a
> > cradle." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
> >
> >
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