Motorola debuts docking station for USBw 200 WiMAX dongle
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 10th 2010 2:58PM
posted February 10th 2010 2:58PM
Already feeling the limitations of your Motorola USBw 200 WiMAX dongle? Then you might be just the ever-demanding sort that Moto is after with its new docking station for the WiMAX adapter. While it might look a tad out of place at a coffee shop, the dock should improve performance quite a bit when you're at home or at the office, with it promising to fully double the 3db gain that the WiMAX adapter provides on its own, and effectively give you the same performance as a standalone desktop WiMAX unit. No word on pricing just yet, but Motorola says this one should be available sometime in the second quarter of this year.
I was telling some people about Xohm , and their prepaid WIMAX service. I felt dumb when I heard it was cancled, I was like wtf, those xohm modems were cool, and the prices were straight.
@Bud92 - Xohm (Sprint's offering) merged with Clearwire (Clear's offering) to become Clear (run by the new Clearwire).
@brown like dookie
This coming from brown like "dookie"? ,:|
Just a technical nitpick: "double the 3db gain", due to the logarithmic nature of the dB scale, a 3dB gain, is a doubling of effective power. While saying you doubled the 3dB gain isn't wrong, it's a bit like mixing inches and centimeters in the same sentence. You could have simply referred to a total of 6dB gain, or stating that it doubles the already doubled gain.
And why do we need this?
@brown like dookie
Yes. It's perfectly normal and many people use the term. I think the issue is that you're not familiar with basic terminology for whatever reason.
behind that fancy plastic is a simple bent sheet of aluminum
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