Hey, I know it doesn't run windows, but how come on the picture where it says the firefox session closed improperly, that window clearly looks like an XP dialog box, and the popup msg in the bottome right hand corner about the battery does too. I know of some desktops for Linux that mimick win95, but what desktop does it use?

What would happen if a cop attempted to pull the car over? Would it just drive away and avoid the cop to avoid a collision?

Uh, let's just ignore the technology capital of the world - they don't need WiMAX. But Toledo does! And don't forget Lansing!

WTF?

Wow, Red Bull sponsors everything. Who knew energy drinks were so profitable.

We've had WiMax here in Pahrump Nevada now for close to a year, and it is not terrible, but severly lacking comparred to wired cables internet.

The main problem is that the omni dirrectional on the towers from AT&T only can handle 71Mbit/s total bandwidth, and there are only three towers servicing our town of roughly 30,000 people. So, if you say have maybe a 10% population usage of this service(3,000 people), roughly 1,000 per tower all sharing 71Mbit/s . . . I am sure you can see the implecations here.

Anyhow, when our service first started, it blew away our previous 802.11g connection with a local provider by peaking well over 300KB/s down. Now, typical downs are roughly 70KB/s or less. Better than dial up, but still terrible for broadband. This technology has a ways to go before it'll match even the shyte DSL connection I had 5 years ago, which gave me a steady 181KB/s downs easy. Oh, and the latency can be horrific, but I suspect this has to do with a multitude of users all hammering the same omni at the same time.

One of the cool things about this technoloy, is that it does not require LoS for a decent connection, and I even setup one of these for a neighbor that had the antenna on the opposite side of his house from the connecting tower, and he was still getting ~280KB/s transers. Of course, this was before AT&T saturated its antennas . . . Just a FYI, the tower we connect to is ~8 miles out.

i have been waiting for this. i need to run a 55' usb line under the house and it does work. even using romex with 14awg wires wont do. sure I can make adapters and use cat5. but this would be a better solution. <-- lazy