Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-19 Thread Stuart Longland
On 16/02/15 11:44, Glen Turner wrote: > On Friday, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> Probably worth pointing out, here in Australia there's been a move to >> get better Internet coverage in rural areas using fixed-wireless broadband. >> >> There's talk of that being based on "WiMAX 2", so there could be

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-15 Thread Glen Turner
On Friday, Stuart Longland wrote: > Probably worth pointing out, here in Australia there's been a move to > get better Internet coverage in rural areas using fixed-wireless broadband. > > There's talk of that being based on "WiMAX 2", so there could be more > demand for WiMAX support in Linux in

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-13 Thread Dan Winship
On 02/12/2015 12:47 PM, Stuart Gathman wrote: >> Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship: >>> Of course this would not affect people using WiMAX via external hotspots >>> (assuming such people and hotspots still exist). > WiMax by its nature encourages locked, proprietary end points, so it is >

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 09:53 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: > While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started > wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support > for it in NM 1.2, given that: > > - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology > > - the Intel WiMAX

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 12.02.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Stuart Longland: > On 11/02/15 11:27, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Debian (and Ubuntu) never enabled WiMAX support in our packages. I don't >> have plans to enable it in our Debian packages either. >> So from my PoV, feel free to drop WiMAX support. > > Probably worth po

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-12 Thread Stuart Longland
On 11/02/15 11:27, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship: >> While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started >> wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support >> for it in NM 1.2, given that: >> >> […] >> >> Of course this woul

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-12 Thread Stuart Gathman
Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship: While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support for it in NM 1.2, given that: - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology - the Intel WiMAX driver for Linux ha

Re: is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship: > While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started > wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support > for it in NM 1.2, given that: > > - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology > > - the Intel WiMAX driver fo

is anyone actually still using WiMAX

2015-02-10 Thread Dan Winship
While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support for it in NM 1.2, given that: - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology - the Intel WiMAX driver for Linux has never worked very well, and the SDK appear