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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
You think wimax is superior to fibre to the cabinet?
I am curious of the problems that come with wireless, I see it performing badly on lans so it would amaze me if it offered good latency and high speeds over long distances.
I am not sure if BT even care that long poor lines perform badly as long as that 25% of lines that are good perform well they can promote fast speeds. 
Last sunday it seems my copper pair got swapped without warning to an inferior one making my line very bad again like it was last june, I probably now have another 3 month battle to get it swapped again.
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Of course wimax despite its use of a spread spectrum technology is still wide open for jamming. (It just requires to either spread the jamming signal, or make the jamming signal a high enough level to make the wimax receiver go into AGC) Just as hackers enjoy hacking in to systems, and virus writers enjoy spreading viruses, it would leave another option open for those who want to jam the service.
That also holds for the HFC network where it is fairly easy with a limited amount of knowledge to screw the system up, or at least make things go down to a crawling speed.
wimax however doesn't need any physical connection to jam customers services, I undertsand jamming of microwave services to the home has been a problem in some countries in the past.
ADSL has to be the most secure service available, at least until fibre to the home is available.