rev B?

[EtherealRemnant]

Well it doesn't look too good for WiMax right now...

LTE just p***** testing at 170Mbps down/50Mbps up today in a car moving at 43mph...

[imneveral0ne]

wow thats crazy.

[Draiko]

Sprint is rolling out what is known as WiMax Wave 1 right NOW. Baltimore goes live THIS MONTH!

LTE won't go live for another 3-4 years and by then, WiMax wave 2 will be rolling out.

Sprint wants to bring a highspeed wireless network out now instead of 3-4 years from now. Sprint thinks that a wireless citywide real world connection speed of 2-4 mbps will draw people in and they're right. LTE may be faster, but it's also 3-4 years away.

Maximum speed of WiMax wave 1 is 70 mbps.

WiMax and LTE also use very similar technologies.

[holo]

The simple answer to sprint rolling out wimax, is as the poster above said, they want it now. LTE will be a while. Sprint has a WiMax network literally going live now, I have a friend with equipment that will be able to use it sitting there waiting for sprint to give them the green light for testing.

[Rizer]

The have started testing in Dallas, Baltimore, DC and one other place that i cant remember of the top of my head. I have a friend that works on the equipment testing and I also get contracted out to all company to test the network.

[gobmonster]

170mps is awesome and all, but i dont see the real world application of speeds that fast (unless your trying to transfer a data base on the go). But still, these concepts arent made to solve the problems of today.

If the 10% rule is still in effect, thats about 17 megabytes being downloaded per second, an mp3 would transfer in less than a 1/4 second, a full cd in four seconds, a dvd in under 40 seconds, it wouldnt take long transfering the contents of one hardrive to the next, maybe just over night

i think data has been compressed to the point that any speed exceeding this is just not practical

[B18DelSolT]

Originally Posted by gobmonster

170mps is awesome and all, but i dont see the real world application of speeds that fast (unless your trying to transfer a data base on the go). But still, these concepts arent made to solve the problems of today.

If the 10% rule is still in effect, thats about 17 megabytes being downloaded per second, an mp3 would transfer in less than a 1/4 second, a full cd in four seconds, a dvd in under 40 seconds, it wouldnt take long transfering the contents of one hardrive to the next, maybe just over night

i think data has been compressed to the point that any speed exceeding this is just not practical

Isnt it Megabits not byts? cause the way internet is rated now is bits, there are very few connections rated at byts and the ones that are arnt byts lol there gb.

[[sammich]]

Originally Posted by gobmonster

170mps is awesome and all, but i dont see the real world application of speeds that fast (unless your trying to transfer a data base on the go). But still, these concepts arent made to solve the problems of today.

If the 10% rule is still in effect, thats about 17 megabytes being downloaded per second, an mp3 would transfer in less than a 1/4 second, a full cd in four seconds, a dvd in under 40 seconds, it wouldnt take long transfering the contents of one hardrive to the next, maybe just over night

i think data has been compressed to the point that any speed exceeding this is just not practical

Mbps is different thatn megabytes per second.

MBPS = MegaBYTES per second
MbPS = MegBITS per second

1 byte = 8 bits

[gdavis612]

if rev a was faster speads and gps for alot of phones what will rev "b" be? time travel? i mean cmon how fun would that be?

[B18DelSolT]

Originally Posted by saumaun

Mbps is different thatn megabytes per second.

MBPS = MegaBYTES per second
MbPS = MegBITS per second

1 byte = 8 bits

Yeah thats what i thought, thanks man