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Most people know that Wi-Fi has now become the standard in comfort and convenience for networking home, enterprise and public networks. It's so nice to not be stuck with wires in order to be connected to a network. Wi-Fi also know for it's normal frequency 802.11 has evolved since it was introduced, speeds represented by the letters at the end of the frequency: a, b, g, n. But Wi-Fi as we know it could become obsolete pretty soon, a new generation of wireless network protocol is underway!

As you know, Wi-Fi has it's limitations, the area range it's signal broadcasts to is aprocimately 300 Ft. at most, the more distance between the hot spot and the client, the more speed loss the client will experience.

WiMAX promises to solve those issues. In practical terms, WiMAX would operate similar to WiFi but at higher speeds, over greater distances and for a greater number of users. WiMAX could potentially erase the suburban and rural blackout areas that currently have no broadband Internet access because phone & cable companies have not yet run the necessary wires to those remote locations.

The main difference is not Speed (yet it will be capable of higher speeds than normal Wi-Fi since it promises to provide up to 70 mbps compared to the 54 mbps Wi-Fi is capable of) but distance.