Technical question

[andrewducker]

Anyone know anything about WiMax? I know it's the latest big thing - and it's being advertised as being able to provide 70MBit connections over a 50km radius. But how does it cope if you and your neighbour (within 50m, let alone km) both set up a node? Do they cope, or do they just compete for signal? I keep hearing talk about it being deployed in cities, but I'd have thought that this was a recipe for disaster. Anyone fill me in?

Comments

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

Erm..
Me never heard of it!!

have you had a look at adslguide.org they usually review these things, as they hit the street...

and their forums some techy dude should have some answear for you!

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMax :P.


Next :P.

Normal wifi is iffy to say the least, because of the narrow (if you're a geek) or wide (if you're a radio operator) frequency range it has been allotted here. As such, interference is always iffy, but that's nothing a good signal amplifier can't change.....

[andrewducker]

Read that hours ago. Doesn't answer the question.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

It's no more a recipe for disaster than different cellphone networks setting up masts in the same area, and two neighbours both owning mobiles, is it?

[andrewducker]

Cellphone masts are carefully coordinated to make sure that neighbouring masts don't use the same frequency.

But if you and your 10 neightbours in your apartment block all use WiFi then you have problems, because suddenly some of you _are_ broadcasting on the same frequencies.

This aint so bad when your range is only 50 feet, but a nightmare at 50km.

I want to know if WiMax is designed to follow the phone-mast idea (everyone needs a license to run one) or the home-user model (anyone can use them, if you get interference, tough).