What factors will most greatly affect range for WiMAX products?
Many factors affect range for any broadband wireless product. Some such factors include the terrain and density/height of tree cover. Hills and valleys can block or partially reflect signals. Bodies of water such as rivers and lakes are highly reflective of RF transmissions. Happily OFDM can often turn this to advantage—but not always. The RF shadow of large buildings can create dead spots directly behind them, particularly if license-free spectrums are being used (with their attendant lower power allotments). How busy the RF environment of a city or town can greatly degrade signals—meaning that properly designed and well thought out networks are always desired. The physics of radio transmission dictate that the greater the range between the base station and customer radio, the lower the amount of bandwidth that can be delivered, even in an extremely well-designed network. The climate can affect radio performance—despite this there are ubiquitous wireless networks deployed today
