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Irish Broadband Technologies

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  • 19-03-2007 10:52pm
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    pedropumpalot
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Can someone please clarify for me weather Irish Broadband products particullarly Breeze and Ripwave are WIFI or WIMAX? Are people still having trouble with the Ripwave product and for what reason?


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    #2
    bushy...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭bushy...


    Probably neither , there is more than wifi and wimax


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Breeze and Ripwave are totally different wireless products.

    Ripwave is not WiFi, though a little like it. Not designed for Broadband performance but as an ISDN/dialup replacement.

    Breeze is not Fixed WiMax, though does roughly the same thing cheaper, but not quite as effeciently. A real broadband product, though limited in speed and number of users on a mast sector.

    There are dozens of totally incompatible wireless products.

    Fixed WiMax is a bit expensive compared with some other products that do fairly much exactly the same thing. The main purpose of Wimax seems to be to get Intel more income.

    Mobile WiMax isn't working properly yet, so no-one can buy it.

    WiFi is best kept in homes, offices etc what it was designed for, Citywide/Rural WiFi can work, but a very poor technology choice.


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