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Wasn't it pushed heavily (by the PR types) as some sort of long range fast wireless WAN?
by teruakohatu 6y ago
Wasn't it pushed heavily (by the PR types) as some sort of long range fast wireless WAN?
- Angostura 6y agoThat was certainly the focus 20 years ago. One of the popular proposed use-cases was connecting remote communities or isolated houses to give them internet connectivity.
- cstejerean 6y agoI lived in hotels for a year and used WiMAX from Clearwire as my primary internet connection. It was pretty good (beating hotel WiFi) except the latency was a bit too high for gaming. Then I got a proper apartment and cancelled the service and later Sprint bought Clearwire and that was basically the end of WiMAX as a wireless WAN option.
- simonh 6y agoThat was the idea, but the problem was each cell had fairly limited bandwidth. It covered a large area, but couldn't handle a commensurate amount of traffic.