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What does the 6 mean? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by favrion to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm more confused now than before. I always knew what b, g, n and ac were, but now when people say Wifi 5 or Wifi 6 I don't know which of the standards it corresponds to.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just count them, that's what I do. 1 is a, 2 is b, 3 is g, 4 is n, 5 is ac, 6 is ax.

[–] naticus 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You want to be really confused then? Because b is WiFi 1 and a is WiFi 2. Everything else you said is correct though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, what? How could they do that? The first standard was wifi a, I was there 3000 years ago! These guys have no respect for history! /OldManYellsAtCloud

Edit: it seems that b and a both came in 1999. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also weren’t compatible with each other. That was fun.

[–] naticus 1 points 1 year ago

Ugh, yeah I still remember working at a school 20+ years ago trying to figure out why I couldn't connect to WiFi with a lab full of computers. Amazingly I feel like we're only just now at a point where WiFi is mature enough that a current system is basically the same experience as twisted pair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks, that actually a good idea.

I guess I did miss "a", that was never something I saw on our older APs when I was a teen, only "b"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To be honest, when I deployed my first wifi network in 04, it was already a choice between b and g, the latter being faster but more expensive, so I don't think a was used for a very long time.