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Wimax Broadband

censuspro · 2009-10-12 14:35:23

Read an article in the sunday business post about Wimax launching it's wireless broadband this week. Does anyone know antything about them or the quality of broadband we can expect?

12-10-2009 3:35pm

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Read an article in the sunday business post about Wimax launching it's wireless broadband this week.

Does anyone know antything about them or the quality of broadband we can expect?

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#2 12-10-2009 4:19pm

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censuspro wrote: »

Read an article in the sunday business post about Wimax launching it's wireless broadband this week.

Does anyone know antything about them or the quality of broadband we can expect?

Wimax is just a wireless technology. It's been around for a while. Eircom were trialing it for a while as an option for those who couldnt get wireline broadband. Since they own Meteor and are pushing 3G they may drop wimax and move towards 3G - LTE

Certinaly haven't heard anything much about it recently.. Is anyone actually on a wimax service??

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#3 12-10-2009 5:00pm

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Thiers been a few posts about this already, Irish Broadband are working on a WiMax at the moment and upgrading people from ripwave

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#4 12-10-2009 6:15pm

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What Irish Broadband are selling is mobile Wimax, another midband, a replacement for ripwave

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#5 12-10-2009 7:03pm

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PogMoThoin wrote: »

What Irish Broadband are selling is mobile Wimax, another midband, a replacement for ripwave

I would avoid this 'Wimax' thing like the plague. I got a engineer from Irish broadband to call out to my house to try to install wimax. I live literally 5 mins walk from where my nearest station is, i could not get a signal on three separate modems..just another mobile product i guess :pac:

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#6 14-10-2009 1:01pm

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Imagine offer the service but all it says on their sight as far as i can see is "super fast" , the speed test just shows my current speed is is nice, but doesnt compare it to their speed.

i found an article which states it will be up to 30 Mbs, up to is a great line, my current one is up to 25 Mbs , but i only get 11 Mbs
plus i live in a place with very poor phone coverage , so i imagine it will be no use to me

http://www.computersinbusiness.com/2009/10/12/wimax-broadband-to-be-launched-next-week/

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