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A question for people in the USA re Totally Unwired Broadband

post #1 of 29
8/8/04 at 2:24am
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Sorry if this is the wrong area to post this, but recently I signed up with a new company for my internet access, it is bascially a wireless ADSL connection. It uses radio waves which makes the modem completely independant of a phone line or cable and also makes it portable.

www.unwired.com.au

I have tried it while driving a car and it works great.

The aerial folds down and the modem can be fitted with a battery which gives you total mobility, you don't need a hotspot. I have tried connecting a wireless router and this creates a wireless network with internet access anywhere you want.... great for Lan parties.

My question... Is there something similar in the USA?? It would be useful on my next trip.

For those interested, here are some pics of the modem.





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post #2 of 29
8/8/04 at 2:33am
Nope, we don't. Not anytime soon either.
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post #3 of 29
8/8/04 at 2:36am
Lucky you people in Australia. I've been dreaming to see this kind of service here for a while now.
We only have Hotspot Wifi providers
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post #4 of 29
8/8/04 at 2:40am
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Yes, I guess we are lucky, it works amazingly well. I bought it just as a trial and it is faster and more reliable than my fixed line ADSL. The service was only rolled out last month and is currently just in Sydney area, but they willl go Australia wide by the end of the year.

I'll set up a web cam in my car and try it while on the move...
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post #5 of 29
8/8/04 at 2:56am
i read an article on that technology. according to article that should be out soon here in the us. they labeled the techonolgy used but im afraid cant remember what they call it.
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post #6 of 29
8/8/04 at 5:57am
I believe I read something awhile back about a similar service being available in the U.S. in a couple of test markets... one was in Florida.

I wonder how secure it is.
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post #7 of 29
8/8/04 at 6:24am
Cingular(my cell company) has a similar service to AT&T, you know with the no wires but up to 56k speeds. Except in select spots in the country, cingular's will(currently) reach broadband speed. But that's only in a minority of the states .......at the moment. So as you see this technology has already reached the US, and it's already becoming more, and more availible. And the same service, except running at dialup speed(but not dialup), has been availible for a few years , and works almost everywhere in the US . I don't have this service, I just looked it up months ago because it seemed neat.
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post #8 of 29
8/8/04 at 9:28am
Cellular modems have been around for awhile, but this technology is different. Wireless DSL. In the article I was reading, the ISP had erected transmitter towers throughout the town (it might have been Jacksonville), and as long as you were in range of one of the towers, you could log on to the network at broadband speeds. All for a flat monthly rate, like a normal ISP.
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post #9 of 29
8/8/04 at 10:17am
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Cellular modems have been around for awhile, but this technology is different. Wireless DSL. In the article I was reading, the ISP had erected transmitter towers throughout the town (it might have been Jacksonville), and as long as you were in range of one of the towers, you could log on to the network at broadband speeds. All for a flat monthly rate, like a normal ISP.
Yes, that is absolutely correct. I think it operates on the 100mhz band, and has normal ADSL speeds, up to 1.5mbits/s. No excess fees for extra downloads, just a flat montly rate that is actually less than what I was paying for a line based ADSL. So far so good.
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post #10 of 29
8/8/04 at 12:31pm
im pretty sure verizon is offering something similar in northern new jersey. wireless dsl something or other.
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post #11 of 29
8/8/04 at 1:23pm
thats pretty awsome dude. i would pack that thing everwhere.

cheese
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post #12 of 29
8/8/04 at 1:32pm
There are two services coming soon to the states that should offer wireless internet access at broadband speeds. WiMax is a new IEEE standard (802.16) that is just around the corner. I think this Unwired Broadband service is like a proprietary WiMax service, and they probably work very similarly. (WiMax will likely run at 2.5, 3.5, and 5GHz; Unwired runs at 3.4GHz) Another service that's been in testing for a while, and mentioned by some posts above, is 3G cellular data services. It's an upgrade to our current cellular data service with higher bandwidth, available sometime in the future for both GSM and CDMA networks (UMTS and CDMA2000). But this works differently from the service in question here.
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post #13 of 29
8/8/04 at 2:50pm
Nextel Communications has this in the works, with a trial in North Carolina:
http://www.nextelbroadband.com/
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post #14 of 29
8/8/04 at 9:29pm
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Nextel Communications has this in the works, with a trial in North Carolina:
http://www.nextelbroadband.com/
Yes, That's what I was asking about. It looks like the Nextel system is very similar, I like the laptop modem... Standard fixed montly prices also. I'll keep an eye on that.

Thanks

Rob
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post #15 of 29
8/8/04 at 9:49pm
hOWDY

I am on a wireless dsl but it is not moble.the service I am on is 3meg up and 3meg down
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post #16 of 29
8/9/04 at 1:52am
deltawalker, are you saying WiMax will one day replace WiFi? or just soley for that one service? i don't want to have to buy a minipci wireless card... =/
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post #17 of 29
8/9/04 at 1:59am
Well theres lots of wireless broadband services in the US some are MUCH more expensive. Cingular Wireless Offers EDGE Wireless service 150-300kbps (140 kbps realistcally) in some markets in the US. Verizon Wireless offers similar services in that speed range but you can expect to pay anywhere from 40-90 dollars permonth
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post #18 of 29
8/9/04 at 3:15am
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hOWDY

I am on a wireless dsl but it is not moble.the service I am on is 3meg up and 3meg down
Who is the provider Texzin?
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post #19 of 29
8/9/04 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by flockey86
deltawalker, are you saying WiMax will one day replace WiFi? or just soley for that one service? i don't want to have to buy a minipci wireless card... =/
No I think WiMax will primarily be a WAN solution and WiFi will remain a LAN solution. But WiMax will probably replace the current WiFi hotspots, I think. It covers so much more area in comparison.
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post #20 of 29
8/9/04 at 4:57pm
Yeah I have read about WiMax. I think, initially at least, it will be used in areas in U$ where broadband is not available. While cell companies like AT&T do offer "fast" wireless connections, its not as fast as broadband and expensive, e.g. normally 128k for $80 per month.

On a somewhat similar note, good news for SBC DSL users:
http://news.com.com/SBC+gets+up+to+s...html?tag=st_lh
In an attempt to differentiate itself from its cable rivals, SBC Communications on Monday said it has boosted upload speeds for its broadband Internet customers.

Customers of SBC Yahoo DSL Express now get an upload speed of 256kbps, up from 128kbps. For its more expensive DSL Pro tier, SBC has raised uploads to 416kbps from 384kbps. By late fall, SBC says, it will have raised DSL Express and DSL Pro upload speeds further to 384kbps and 512kbps, respectively.
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