On 6/2/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Amazingly, somehow WiMax (802.16) can create a hotspot that stretches
for many miles unlike 802.11....thru many walls and other obstructions.
I can only guess that they must turn up the power big time.
Have you ever used a cell phone? Have you ever gotten Web on a cell
phone? Have you ever gotten your laptop on the Internet using cell?
That doesn't use so much power.
Also, couldn't they have just called it a derivative of 802.11 like
802.11f for "fast" ???? Sheesh!
I'd imagine that transmitting data over longer ranges and at a
different frequency than WiFi presents different engineering
challenges than WiFi. Also, they'll have different markets, and so
have to meet slightly different market acceptance challenges. I'm not
an IEEE engineer, but I imagine WiMAX is not just high-powered WiFi.
-todd
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