TATA Indicom Broadband planning WiMAX rollout!!!
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@netfreak, gsm/cdma carries voice which is like ultra-low bandwidth... when you are at 256kbps and above, rain and line-of-sight obstacles are a problem
Rain interferes with line of sight, so i would not be so confident about getting anything.
I believe the term is degraded
I always wondered why Wimax did not really make that much of a splash in the US or elsewhere for that matter and i think i know.
VSNL plans to install an aerial on the top of the building running a cat5 down to your PC. The reason is better reception. When you live in a city with lots of obstacles to line of sight the higher you place the aerial the better. There is only so high you can build towers anyway. Well if they are going to do that, then to the customer it does not look any different to wired connectoin, therrfore it does not make much of a difference and cant really offer anything over the price of a wired connection they are getting anyway.
Wimax does have potential in the country where you dont have too many obstacles to line of sight, but then there are not really that many customers that would pay for such a service so its not really helpful to the bottom line.
But in a place like India which does not really have that much of a wired infrastructure to being with anyway, there may be some promise. Waiting to hear experiences, if they have an aerial on the building then i expect it should be decent. However the wimax card in your laptop and expecting internet to work whereever you happen to be in the city might offer a more 'mixed' eperience.
I believe the term is degraded
I always wondered why Wimax did not really make that much of a splash in the US or elsewhere for that matter and i think i know.
VSNL plans to install an aerial on the top of the building running a cat5 down to your PC. The reason is better reception. When you live in a city with lots of obstacles to line of sight the higher you place the aerial the better. There is only so high you can build towers anyway. Well if they are going to do that, then to the customer it does not look any different to wired connectoin, therrfore it does not make much of a difference and cant really offer anything over the price of a wired connection they are getting anyway.
Wimax does have potential in the country where you dont have too many obstacles to line of sight, but then there are not really that many customers that would pay for such a service so its not really helpful to the bottom line.
But in a place like India which does not really have that much of a wired infrastructure to being with anyway, there may be some promise. Waiting to hear experiences, if they have an aerial on the building then i expect it should be decent. However the wimax card in your laptop and expecting internet to work whereever you happen to be in the city might offer a more 'mixed' eperience.
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i've seen people's DTH service also getting affected during the rains, i wonder if wimax frequencies are also affected by it... it will be its achilles' heel then
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