Siemens' Gigaset SE68 WiMAX ExpressCard arrives before the network
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 9th 2008 1:28AM
posted Apr 9th 2008 1:28AM
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seriously where's the expresscard/54 love?
progress ftw
What is the price on this? I'm looking for an adapter card as I have WiMAX at work but not sure of the going prices on these.
Seriously, where is the Network? Why would I buy a product for a system, that hasn't been built yet?
You get all the cons of being an early adopter without any of the benefits! Sounds like a deal to me.
I don't get comments like yours. Bell Canada and Rogers deployed a nation-wide WiMax network named Inukshuk two years ago. It's not very impressive.
So, WiMax has been widely deployed in North America for years, and yet people still seem to think that it's an up and coming thing. No, WiMax came, generated little interested, and faded as it was no longer worthy of our attention.
I don't know you bitches, but I'm using right now my 6Mbps Wimax connection here
And the prize goes to.....
SIEMENS!!!
This will go well with my Deed to some land i own on the Moon :)
Soooo.... are we ignoring BridgeMAXX's WiMAX network that currently serves several cities in Idaho, Indiana, Montana and Virgina? Or are they too small to be considered a network for "mass consumer use"?
Montana? Is that a country?
Yes James, they are too small for mass consumer use because they provide coverage in several cities in ONLY FOUR FRICKIN STATES! OUT OF FIFTY! How in the hell is an Idaho network going to help me in Oregon? It will take a rollout with a hell of a lot more states and more coverage before it is "for mass consumers". Don't be a frickin idiot.
And Adam Zey, there are THREE countries in North America. If there was a bigger system in the US or Mexico, 2/3, then I would consider it "widely deployed". I'm sure that the comment about the system "not being built yet" was referring to America, because a Canadian system doesn't help someone in the states unless they frequently go up to Canada. Don't be frickin stupid either.
We have a WiMax network here in Canada with Bell Canada - the coverage isn't fabulous, but it still spans 124 cities... good enough for me. Thanks Siemens!
They have the same problem with fuel cell cars. No one will buy cars unless someone is selling fuel. And no one will sell fuel unless there are cars.
I wonder how they tested it.
You wouldn't had you read the article.
We have Nortel wimax here in testing with a full launch in less than a month and I am in Illinois so if this works with that.....
beamforming?
how does I form beam? `\o_0/`
seriously though, for some reason I hadn't heard about beamforming before. sounds neat.
Clearwire? Not nationwide, but it is in a decent number of cities. If you don't travel or have a business that needs mobile broadband and don't want to pay crazy wireless carrier prices, this would do the trick.
Can you make a device made for 802.16e-2005 work with a 802.16-2004 network?
As someone who has first hand used Clearwire's WiMax service -- I'm not impressed. I could browse via my Sprint EVDO faster...and cheaper!