http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/It's what causes it.
Such massive speeds available everywhere through cellular networks is just what SkyNet needs to upload itself and all its bloatware to every single computing device on the planet. (Including the 3GHz ARM Eagle and octo-core Snapdragon based smartphones.)]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
octo-core Hummingbird > octo-core Snapdragon]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Octo core OMAP > Everything]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
I'm just wondering, with how great WiMax is, how come everyone wants LTE?]]>Aug 15th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
it wil be during the apocalypse. We will need those speeds on the go when everything is going crazy.]]>Aug 15th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Pwned ]]>Aug 15th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
WiMAX 2, on the other hand, is completely 4G compliant, by the standard. It'll do speeds up to 100 Mbps for mobile applications, and up to 1 Gbps for fixed facilities.

The LTE counterpart is "LTE Advanced," which is also 4G compliant. I don't know if it's expected to hit towers by 2012, but it should be hot on the heels of WiMAX 2.

The reason for the industry predilection for LTE is probably due to the base technology... LTE is GSM, and WiMAX is 802.11. GSM tech is better known and understood than its rival, and that goes a long way toward adoption. There is also a desire, I believe, to unite everyone in the world under that GSM umbrella, though the diversity seems to be driving the technologies forward these days, rather than hindering them as has been the case for decades.

For every announcement regarding future LTE projects, installations, and devices, it seems that WiMAX actually does something in the present to keep the tech vital— deployment, advancement, consumer adoption. I guess it remains to be seen what the ultimate winner will be.]]>Aug 15th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/While LTE is also from the same standards group as GSM, they're wildly different technologies. Saying "LTE is GSM" is patently false. Anyone interested should get info from the source at http://www.3gpp.org/LTE .]]>Aug 15th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
I can't wait for the 4G WP7 phones to come out!]]>Aug 16th 2010 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Wimax is still ahead of LTE though, so if Wimax 2 isn't getting on towers until 2012, it's likely LTE-Adv won't come any faster. Also, isn't GSM inherently broken by design? While LTE isn't GSM outright it shares the some of the same makeup, which = vulnerable LTE.

100 Mbps mobile (1Gbps fixed) is 4G.. that's what the aim is. Yes, other countries are way ahead of us, but they have a lot less red tape and a LOT less previous architecture to wade through than we do. We have everything from phone lines/copper cables/etc architecture to sift through, when there's countries that went from rice patties straight to wireless.

Also I imagine in the USA there is a lot more throttling to occur. Wimax can get up to around 40 or more Mbps right now, but you see 10 at best coming from sprint/clearwire. Don't start thinking LTE will be any different, not to mention you'll be paying out the ass for it.

Another thing is spectrum.. Sprint has the most spectrum to expand on (though it's not a good building pentration frequency), so while Wimax2 is deploying on their 2.5~GHz spectrums, AT&T and Verizon are gonna be hurting for spectrum more than T-Mo when they reach full HSPA in the network.
]]>Aug 16th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/I certainly think we'll have higher caps in 2012. ]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Thankfully its tied in with SPRINT, who doesn't limit their data anywhere near what other carriers do. At least for now, but I sure as hell take am loving it, having switched from ATT.]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
+1]]>Aug 15th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
No way in hell they wouldn't limit 100Mbs. People would use that for their home internet to! downloading 500GBs a month. You know how much they'd have to charge for that?]]>Aug 15th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Wish it did but EVO's 4g didn't work out for me, only got reception when I was riding on a major highway. Bought a used Droid and got back on Verizon.]]>Aug 15th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Are you serious, did you really do that, or are you pulling our legs.]]>Aug 15th 2010 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Sprint doesn't limit 4G at all. 4G is completely unlimited while 3G technically has a cap, but I'm on some plan from 2 years ago and I just did 20 gigabytes of download last month, no penalties, so who knows. But I do know the 4G is in fact unlimited. I'm a Sprint customer, and I approved this message.]]>Aug 15th 2010 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/It says 100 Mbps, not Gbps.
Also, TeliaSonera already provides an LTE network in Sweden that has been reported to give download speeds up to 90 Mbps, so I can't say that I'm very impressed. If it can actually provide 1 Gbps, that would be something. That would mean that wireless internet have caught up with wired.]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/But you forget latency ;) ,people always forget about that and think about Mbps/Gbps.

So for gamers the latency is more important than the speed, because a game only consumes approximately about 50KBps.]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
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Yeah in 10 years, everyone is going to forget what that fibre and coax running up to their houses were for after they dug (before they called) wondering "what the heck are these?" Hopefully they don't hit a gas line as those aren't obsolete... yet!]]>Aug 15th 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Right, T-Mobile?

You out there?

Still making phones?

Hello?

]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
They don't make phones....]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
What's up semantics.

/sarcasm]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
that explains a lot... guess I'll stop writing them angry emails now.]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/That won't mean anything once lte advanced and wimax 2 comes out]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Except I'm using HSPA+ now.

By the time WMX2 and LTEA roll out in two or three years I'll have gone through two or three more handsets.]]>Aug 15th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/I up ranked you because your reply made me lol.]]>Aug 15th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
I just switched to you last Monday for your evo goodness. Please do not fall behind now. I have two years to go.]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Theirs a better 4G phone coming out you should have waited for that]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Not necessarily. The EVO is still a great phone for those who dont want keyboard, or the ugly, iPhone-lookalike layout Samsung added. They're both great phones -- OPTIONS mean "Win-Win" for consumers... just depends on your preferences, albeit the Epic 4G has some more advanced features than the iPhone4 && Evo... again, *preference*]]>Aug 15th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/Aug 15th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/15/wimax-2-standard-and-its-theoretical-1gbps-downloads-to-be-fin/
Don't forget to turn on some bone thugs in harmony that you downloaded on napster, while you're at it...]]>Aug 15th 2010 10:35AM