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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Fine, but you're replying to my post out of context. OppositeOfIgnorance's question was to whether WiMAX would be replacing Wifi at the consumer level (i.e. for home and business wireless LAN access), which is obviously does not.

Mmmhhh: E version? With a mobile version I don't need a personal LAN. It’s like a cellular: I can call both my wife in the kitchen or connect to my Desktop or "database-box" upstairs. I expect business networks to remain cable by preference for a number of reasons.

Just for fun: http://www.maxtelecom.bg/index.php?t=0&p=0&lang=en
Erm, not really. In a general sense, yeah, technical specifics tend to not to be important the market, but they really accomplish two different things. Wifi is a consumer-level short-range wireless LAN standard that has also been tasked to provide semi-fixed access at the city and neighborhood range (potentially as an ISP of sorts), while WiMAX is a long-range last-mile and mobile-broadband access standard that wont be used for personal LAN access in-home.

They're two very different things (despite an evidently consumer-confusing similarity in name).

WiMAX = mid range by the way. The possibility of direct end user access exists and is operational. (Mobile WiMAX). But let's not make all this to strict: probably the different perspective is in your line: "wont be used for personal LAN access in-home."

I do consider WiFI not limited to a personal LAN at home (which it is on the technical level). I use WiFI now (almost) everywhere. This afternoon shopping with my wife I took my N800 with me for accessing the internet in a café. I can use public WiFi in libraries, musea and in most meetings. I did Skype from the Mall in DC, using Smithsonian etc. My documents, Calendar etc. are on Google that is accessible through Internet.

I dropped my personal LAN already last year. Don't need it anymore. But I still have WiFI for my N800. Sometimes Bluetooth to my Cellular or Desktop.
My perspective is from the service level: I see WiFi as a link to the Web, VoIP, Music etc. WiMAX may improve that service.

(As you can see: in the end we all can agree to anything. )

Yes, if you see the wikipedia article on WiMAX, it is being offered as a last-mile alternative to things like cable and DSL as well as for cellular data access, but this doesn't make it similar to Wifi .

Certainly not. Thanks for the link. I Linked trough to the Dutch Wiki and learned that Casema, a (large EU) Cable Firm aims to have a fully functioning mobile WiMAX broadband network operational before the end of 2008. It should also provide VoIP.
A Quote from a Dutch researcher: "The WiMAX E version and UMTS are direct competitors," says Jan de Nijs of TNO Telecom. "WiMAX doesn't necessarily offer different services, but the same services may be cheaper. Price competition in mobile broadband is increasing via WiMAX, UMTS, and its successor HSDPA.''

However they also claim that half of Belgium is already WiMAX-ed. So we have to be careful about this: As you know Wiki is like Meamo: You can't be sure about quality.

Yes, they serve two different purposes.
Absolutely….always true of course …Crocodole & Aligator ..

You might want to read this :
http://www.wimaxforum.org/technology...ternatives.pdf


Thanks for your response.

I do appreciate your great contribution and your helpful replies.

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Abel.