Wi-Fi: Ways to be online on the road

Many gagdets and a lot of the nicest functionality requires exchange of information between what ever. This requires to be on-line (to whatever) in one way or another.

CNET has a nice overview on different ways to be on-line on the road.

WiMax keeps on coming. Sprint will launch mobile WiMax broadband access in Q4 2007. That means another form of wireless broadband that could be used in your car and one that will compete with the offerings coming from 3G cellular technology. Speed is predicted to hit 2Mbps to 5Mbps, which beats the pants off the 400Kbps to 700Kbps we get today from 3G cellular. Clearly, cellular will be under pressure to speed way up, and both services will be under pressure to come way down in price. Sprint forecasts pricing for mobile WiMax to start around $20 a month for up to 1GB of transfer, which isn't much--about 10 hours of 28Kbps audio streaming, by my rough calculations.

Think I'm nuts with all this in-car broadband stuff? It's not just me.

Read the complete overview here.

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Source: CNET, pic from Wi-Fi Alliance

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