WiMAX - Where do i go to learn more?

[sunilraman]

I will personally PM you a nasty message if anyone replies "google" :devil:
seriously, my DSL home service is ass crapp. it cuts out at 4am and comes alive again at 9am, i kid you not, it's like some sort of weird daily downtime during those hours, and their bandwidth out of malaysistan is bad, they don't provision enough so in the evenings if you're trying to hit UK or US sites it is slow, a lot of network congestion on the service providers' main pipe in and out of the country. not that the pipe isn't big enough, they haven't provisioned enough for a lot of DSL users or something.

anyway, wiMax will be around by a more reputable service provider that has been doing wiFi hotspots and their main internet backbone in and out of the country has been really, quite decent.

just wondering what the pitfalls or challenges or caveats of wiMax is going to be, circa 2006.

thanks peoples

edit: to make this post more "lets discuss" and less "help me or you suck", also,
what are your expectations/hopes for wiMax? re: Macintel? or just in general as a last-mile service?

[Cake]

Don't know much about it. It seems very promising though.

Check the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMax) or /. (http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=wimax)

[ThinkingDifferent]

it cuts out at 4am and comes alive again at 9am

Those are the hours when the spammers are working.

[sunilraman]

Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent
Those are the hours when the spammers are working.

heh. that's their "lets prevent people from using our DSL service to send spam" policy. turn the whole thing OFF between 5am and 9am :lol: :err: WTF? :lol:

[NOFEER]

depending on city you live in what about cell-service or just go cable and feel the burn i get 3500kbs adelphia and it's rarely down

[Jwink3101]

Google...Just kidding...or am I

Seriously, http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wimax.htm

[sunilraman]

Originally posted by NOFEER
depending on city you live in what about cell-service or just go cable and feel the burn i get 3500kbs adelphia and it's rarely down

in my current suburb in my part of the world... by the time we get coax or fibreoptic cable they would have invented faster-than-light travel already :no:

thanks anyway, but good recommendation for cable service. i will check out adelphia for general interest purposes (i am not in the US). feel the burn indeed. hope it's unlimited, otherwise it's your wallet that'll be feeling the burn :lol:

edit: just browsing.. for california, looks like southern cal (LA area) only ?? not bay area??