Joe Terranova on 30 May 2008 06:17:10 -0700 |
> What do people think about the WiMAX deal with Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner, > and Clearwire? Will this be another failed venture? Personally it sounds > like a cluster $#%&* to me. You will have the same issues with building > penetration, as well latency which could actually be worse. Though I have > played with satellite internet, and there is a slight delay loading web > pages; but it' not terrible maybe 500msec. However, VOIP is another deal > entirely. I'm cautiously optimistic. I've always wanted a data plan that's not ludicrously expensive, and this might provide that. Or, it might not. My ideal goal is to have an n810 with wimax built in that I can make SIP calls with; of course, that goes out the window if the latency ends up too high. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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