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The Wi-Fi upload speed question was sort of a trick question. You are correct that within Wi-Fi there is no difference in upload and download speed, as it is a syncronous technology. But this only means that the data going from your access point (or Wi-Fi router) to your computer transmits both ways at the same speed, and it can do 11 Mbps in ideal circumstances (it actually averages less than half of this).
Here is the "big BUT": Your Wi-Fi speed does not determine how fast you upload and download to the Internet! Your provider does (Comcast, Adelphia, Verizon DSL, etc, etc.) and they all use asynchronous technologies that do limit your upload speed. Most of these limit it to the 40 - 5o Kbps range - just like EVDO!
The statement about Wi-Fi being "free" would be accurate if everyone understood what Wi-Fi was - which they do not. The industry has led the public to believe that Wi-Fi is Internet access in and of itself, and at 11 Mbps.
Everyone on this board knows this is not the truth, regardless of the fact that CLYW has alluded to as much in various press releases.
Saying that Wi-Fi gets you free Internet access is like saying a cordless telephone gets you free phone calls. Wi-Fi by itself is just a network in your home, at starbucks, at the airport, or at a hot spot. Each Wi-Fi network needs to connect to the internet somehow before you get Internet and VoIP. It is here where you pay - $5 per month, $10/month. $30/month, and to many different Wi-Fi providers (Like T-Mobile and AT&T and Boingo, and Starbucks and McDonalds). When you add it all up it isn't that cost effective after all!
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