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The Fastest Wireless Connection at CES

posted by Jason Swihart on January 08, 2008

CIMG1148.jpgI’m sitting in the back of an suv driving around Las Vegas, in one of Intel’s Wimax demonstration vehicles. The Chevy Suburban is equipped with a wimax gateway and a WiFi AP that provides us with wireless connectivity within the vehicle. My host, John Hammond, is explaining that, as with WiFi, Wimax clients are subject to Moore’s law—they will increase exponentially as Wimax is packed into ever smaller and cheaper packages.

The vehicle is equipped with an in-dash pc from Azentek that streams music from the Internet, has a web browser, and also relays our position back to the “mother ship.”

We’re coming to the end of our ride and I’ll have some video when I’m done, but I have to say—uploading the photo for this piece was fast. I’m definitely ready for ubiquitous wireless.

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Jan 08  |  Josh Bancroft said:

http://www.speedtest.net

Head over there, run a test, and post some numbers, please? I’d love to see how it compares to residential broadband and cellular connections like EVDO and HSDPA. That site is the de facto standard for speed tests.

Thanks!

Jan 08  |  Jason Swihart said:

John showed me a file download test that was seeing 1.5mbps sustained and there was only one brief dropout during our drive.

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