Originally Posted by
ScottC
I'm sorry, but that statement is just bogus. I have CLEAR WiMax here, and I get 6-7Mbit most of the time. That isn't hype - that is real speed that I need on the road. Given your knowledge and experience in this area, I'm amazed you'd call it that.
LTE is great, but nobody in the US is offering it yet, whereas I can get WiMax coverage almost anywhere I travel nowadays.
Everywhere you travel? Bogus statements! Sorry, I have to take you to task there. You must have the most limited travel area of any Flyertalker on this board. WiMax is a complete dud and it ISN"T available anywhere I travel, which is dozens of countries all over the world. In real terms, it exists only in press releases. Clearwire prints up these coverage maps that rarely exist in reality. And Clearwire themselves are switching to LTE because they know that WiMax has no future. Let me repeat NO FUTURE. That is why they have just backed out of their long term WiMax contract with Intel. There are over 2 billion WiFi chips on the market and growing way, way, way faster than WiMax. Realistically there is only 3G, WiFi and LTE, which is available in parts of northern Europe now and working so well that customers say they will never use 3G again.
And I get more than 6-7Mbps over WiFI, but of course that depends on your backend. It has little to do with the radio technology.