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Add WiMax as an underlying connection technology? #21

Closed jkarlin closed 9 years ago

jkarlin commented 9 years ago

Android supports wimax and it would be nice to provide a max download speed for it from the spec.

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

Sure, np. Do you have a value we can add to the JSON file?

igrigorik commented 9 years ago

@jkarlin do we have any stats on wimax usage in the wild? Also, for speed, is it a similar (Android) API to WiFi, where speed is returned from the network interface?

jkarlin commented 9 years ago

I don't have stats on wimax usage, I imagine it's quite small.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX:

WiMax rel 1: 37Mbps down, 17 up WiMax rel 1.5: 141 down, 138 up WiMax rel 2: 365 down, 376 up

I don't see a way of getting release information from Android, so it will wind up being +infinity anyway.

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

I guess if the version is unknown, the max theoretical would then be 365 (i.e., the highest known value for the current generation)? But yeah, the question is if anyone would actually benefit from us adding this as WiMAX usage might indeed be statistically insignificant. Do we expect that to change? let me know how you want to proceed.

igrigorik commented 9 years ago

@marcoscaceres afaik, WiMax usage is small and going downhill. That said, I don't see any issues with adding it to the spec. If a particular platform doesn't support WiMax they don't incur any implementation cost.

marcoscaceres commented 9 years ago

@igrigorik ok, lets add it. I know next to nothing about it, so does it fall under the "cellular" group?