802.16

[Brian Koontz]

What's the deal with this? I'm hearing 70Mbps at a 30 Mile radius and ready for action late 2004. Does anyone know more?

[JeffL]

Sounds like you'd have to have an FCC license if those ranges were correct. ;)

[Case]

Sounds like you'd have to have an FCC license if those ranges were correct. ;)

You probably will, indeed.

802.16 isn't for your personal LAN. It's to solve the "last mile" problem for broadband ISPs. The ISP will probably have an FCC license, and you'll have a receiver that allows you to connect to the ISPs at high speed.

[Saxman_72]

For those with an aversion to google, you can try http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/index.html

[Tim]

Hey cool, the author of that page and longtime 802.x standardization muckety-muck is Roger Marks. Our kids go the same school. I had been warned to 'watch out' for him at gatherings as he's really boring and will just go on forever about weird technical stuff.

So the first time we really had a chance to chat I naturally found him pretty fascinating and we both got in trouble for ignoring our families. He had probably heard the same warnings about me.

I haven't seen him in a while, I will try to ask him about this next time I do.