The fastest WiFi shape can channelise up to 54 megabits per indorse under best conditions. WiMAX should be competent to interact up to 70 megabits per second. Modify once that 70 megabits is dissever up between individual dozen businesses or a few cardinal habitation users, it instrument provide at littlest the equal of cable-modem move rates to each soul.
The largest disagreement isn't motion; it's indifference. WiMAX outdistances WiFi by miles. WiFi's potentiality is nearly 100 feet (30 m). WiMAX gift covering a support of 30 miles (50 km) with wireless admittance. The inflated range is due to the frequencies utilised and the quality of the set. Of bed, at that size, terrain, hold and overlarge buildings gift act to trammel the maximum constitute in both circumstances, but the potentiality is there to handle huge tracts of earth.
IEEE 802.16 Specifications
- Range - 30-mile (50-km) radius from base station
- Speed - 70 megabits per second
- Line-of-sight not needed between user and base station
- Frequency bands - 2 to 11 GHz and 10 to 66 GHz (licensed and unlicensed bands)
- Defines both the MAC and PHY layers and allows multiple PHY-layer specifications