[ogWiFi] Mobile Internet Solution

[Michael Richardson]

I've read the whole thread.

My day job, SIMtone, tried out the Rogers WiMax on a 15 day trial
(or maybe it was 30 days).  We needed it really only for demos where we
really do need 2Mb/s to show our application, and and relying on
comodity "cafe/hotel" connections was too difficult.

We would not have used it more than 3-4 hours/month, and at that the
regular price was almost unacceptable, but the promotional price at the
time seemed okay.  But it had to work.

In our *office* at Bronson/Carling, we found that we could only make it
work by adjusting the orientation of the modem very precisely.  It
worked great at Tracey's house when were we setting up.  It also worked
great on Sparks' Street after the event.  It completely failed once we
got north of the flame!  No signal.  It was also very hard to debug,
since the sun blinded us to any screens we had to diagnose things.

It matters not if you go with Bell or Rogers.  The duopolopy has
actually "teamed" up to deploy WiMax, because neither could afford to do
it on their own.  Talk about lack of neutrality, eh...

>From reading your thread, I don't really understand your needs.
If you are at Cafe Umi on a regular basis, why can't you use their
current wired solution?   You will be limited by the uplink, which could
be as small as 128kb/s (two voice calls), depending on what kind of ADSL
they have.  You need to be sending a single stream out to some data
centre (colo), from where you can unicast or multicast (I can still
dream) it to the listeners.  Focus on the audio.  Video of an event,
even at 2-3 frame/s is acceptable to many, but choppy audio is useless.

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