Add WiMax as an underlying connection technology? about netinfo HOT 6 CLOSED

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

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@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?

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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.

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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.

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@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.

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

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