Pagan, Great Article on the Communications in NO,LA after Kat.
...The Internet connection also was extended dozens of miles via the emerging standard called WiMax, which has mostly been deployed in limited trials and offers data transfer speeds of 45 megabits per second.
At the end of the WiMax link, Wi-Fi was again used so that laptops and Internet phones could connect."
With over 2.8 million phones out(FCC) we were all wondering what rabbit the telcos were gonna pull out of there hats? We see WiMax & WiFi as the quick connect by those in the KNOW. To bad FEMA gets another black mark for lack of prepaREDness.
I know a group from New York who set up the same kind of MESH networks in Algeris, LA.
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