[dorkbotdc-blabber] Re: WiMax not official in DC until 2010?

[Thomas Edwards]

Does WiMax work when mobile?

You should drive around and do a live broadcast on Justin.TV!

-Thomas

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Alberto Gaitán
<alberto.gaitan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, I'm up and running. Wonder what happened. I spoke with an investment
> banker type this past weekend who was poo-pooing the Palm Pre because he
> said they were launching it on Sprint's network and that Sprint was broke.
>
> I do know that (until they teamed up with ClearWire?) one big issue was
> getting enough backhaul capacity.
>
> Speedtest.net results:
> down: 5232 kb/s
> up: 2130 kb/s
> ping (Ashburn, Va): 105ms
>
> $25/month for 6-months, then $35/month; option for $50/month "for life".
>
> I'd like to take the modem around town (don't have the USB dongle), plugged
> into an inverter to see how it does.
>
> Alberto