• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Another Step Closer to WiMax

Mike Peregrine

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Headline in the paper this morning - Sprint and Clearwire are joining to bring WiMax to the country. Sprint continues to hedge its bets that this is going to be the next revolution in ultra high speed wireless internet. Looks like their venture capital is coming from some pretty impressive players - Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner, and Brighthouse.
 
This partnership and new company is going to take at least another $5 billion to finish a buildout and even then, do you want to trust a company owned by Sprint AND Comcast?

I've got both right now and I'm certainly not impressed by their offerings. WiMAX looks and sounds great, I just worry about the past trends of these companies involved.
 
Not a Sprint fan, and certainly NOT a Time Warner fan (if they would just give me an HD DVR that works without constantly re-setting, it might be another story).

But I'm definitely a Sprint mobile data fan. Personally, I'm hoping they pull this off. It would be nice to stream hi-res video.
 
I like the idea of broadband internet access across the entire country, but I am not sure WiMax is the way to go. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't a WiMax connection limited to being in the line of sight of the transmitter?
 
Ross Kimes said:
I like the idea of broadband internet access across the entire country, but I am not sure WiMax is the way to go. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't a WiMax connection limited to being in the line of sight of the transmitter?
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Well, it depends... Estonia has a WiMAX network and the network used here has non line of sight functionality.

Example of our system
 
wimax will have a 5 gig cap that will make it almost useless for most of us. Why do they call it broadband if they are going to limit it to 5 gigs ? Then again this doesn't just apply to Sprint but also ATT and Verizion who will roll out LTE in 2009.
 
Although not living in U.S, I can say that I have "been there done that" situation. My ISP had 10 GB cap more than a year before adding unlimited plans. Unlimited plans have same download speeds as limited plans here, but lower upload speeds.
 
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