I could add some money to sweeten the pot :P

I thought I'd say "hello" and let the world know that there's yet another N810WE alive in the D.C./No.Va. area.

I happened to be in Columbia on business last week, couldn't keep myself away from the N810s at the XOHM kiosk, end-of-life or no end-of-life, and took the plunge. Now the N810 has joined the N800 as one of my favorite devices. I can't live without a keyboard on my handhelds other than for watching movies and as much as I love PalmOS, I'd prefer to carry an IT.

I've been disappointed with the coverage in Fairfax and Herndon so far though. The in-building penetration is not really impressive.

I did get 7Mbps down/3 Mbps up standing next to a sliding glass door in my house, so there's hope.

I was an old Sprint Spectrum hanger-on back when it was the only (FCC pioneer preference) GSM network in D.C., so I have a history of buying into orphan RF data networks that are technically superior at the time and being the last one at the party to leave.

I have variously lived on Mobitex (I worked where the Mac RadioMail client was written), Ricochet, ARDIS (I have a stack of Motorola Envoys and a couple of DataRovers - I still miss the General Magic UI and mobile agent platform), GPRS and now WiMAX in the DC area even when no one else knew what they were, so this is the next in a grand tradition.

It's frustrating though, because I work in a very security conscious office and would love to stop tethering my Internet Tablets to my Treo 755p's EV-DO service and just use WiMAX on the N810 for all my personal stuff. Carrying 3 widgets is a drag.

The XOHM folks in Maryland seemed to think that DC/VA will be the next market to be announced and supported formally for the new partnership. I think the test market network has been running here longer than even in Baltimore.

Keeping fingers crossed on that. It will be interesting to see if the 810W works on it since someone has reported that the 810w didn't work on the Clear network in Portland (but maybe that was temporary).

Meet "Chibi Ayumi" (Fujitsu U810 WiMAX)

Chibi Ayumi is a Fujitsu LifeBook U810 running Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005, Service Pack 3 with andLinux/KDE. Specs include:

* 120GB HDD
* 64GB CompactFlash
* 32GB SDHC
* WiMAX (XOHM) Adapter

I’m getting a solid 10Mbps connection using WiMAX on the Fujitsu U810 while on Capitol Hill (Washington, DC) and a 4Mbps connection using the WiMAX on the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition.

10 mbps is great. I am guessing the speed disparity between the devices is due to the external antenna??

Possibly... I've been wondering the same. Are there different WiMAX chipsets and limitations, or does the integrated antenna of the N810WE vs the positionable external antenna of the XOHM adapter on the U810 make that big a difference?

Not being an RF engineer and still a WiMAX n00b, I'm left scratching my head...

I don't know what chipset is in the Fujitsu. I am a comm engineer (among other things) and the external antenna vs. internal antenna in a 5" device can indeed make that big of a difference.

This 4MBit/s is silimar to wifi transfers on n810.
IMO it's not only the chipset/driver issue but as it was discussed in "wifi performance" thread - a kind of tradeof and fulfilling real needs in portable device.

I searched but can't find the thread. Can you post a link? Thanks.

Maybe 4 Mbit/sec is the max throughput for the N810(WME).