Comments on: Coming soon from Clearwire: portable Wi-Fi/WiMAX router

By: Robb Henshaw

Robb Henshaw — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:20:37 +0000

Chris — Proxim’s MeshMAX products bridge the connection between WiMAX and Wi-Fi. MeshMAX is a tri-radio, outdoor device offering Wi-Fi connectivity for access, Wi-Fi mesh gateway for network redundancy and a high capacity, carrier-class WiMAX link for backhaul. If you need more information on the product, you can view the product page here: http://www.proxim.com/products/meshmax/index.html, or you can reach out to me directly at rhenshaw at proxim dot com.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:47:12 +0000

I am looking for solution that will turn the Wimax signal into a Wifi signal but is equipped to be placed on a city lamp posts with a electicity connector and possible meter read?

By: Paul Kapustka

Paul Kapustka — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:31:46 +0000

Um, the portable router is just one of many options… I thought they generally have a lot of ways to connect, especially if you compare it to 3G options. For Portland there is already a home modem, USB card, embedded notebooks/netbooks… plus different pricing models for businesses, consumers… so how will having one portable router fail?

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:18:11 +0000

You could always hire a butler to drag your WiMAX modem around town as you drive or walk. There are a lot of unemployed people right now who would gladly do this for you. What shall we call this innovative service – the WiMAX Butler?

By: Zapp

Zapp — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:33:51 +0000

Dumb, dumb, dumb. This strategy will fail. Clearwire’s target market for early adoption is not suburban families. I would have hoped that they understood that. This guy smells of seat-of-the-pants decisions combined with procrastination.

I am a Clearwire customer. I am the “early adopter” that always gets screwed but keeps coming back. I would have bought a Nokia N810 (had they not been discontinued due to Clearwire’s refusal to sell them). There is no way in hell I am going to carry that kludge of a “solution” around in my pocket. Disappointing. Here’s hoping they didn’t pull the plug on the WiMax version of the MSI Wind that is due any day.

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:17:18 +0000

This reminds me of Joikuspot and Walking Hotspot, two applications that turn your 3G phone into a WiFi access point so your friends and colleagues can simply use WiFi (via 3G) to connect their laptops and other WiFi devices to the Internet.

Check out this post I wrote some time ago:
WiFi everywhere thanks to your mobile phone