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Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6::There are a lot of 'draft' Wi-Fi 7 devices around, but 'Wi-Fi 7 Certified' devices will only come to market sometime next year.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How am I supposed to keep track without the two letter suffix that's non sequential?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Look at mister fancy pants over here with 2 letters while the rest of us are using the totally understandable "b" or "g" or "n."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

AX gang all day, baybee.

[–] phoneymouse 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

802.11b will always be my favorite. Brings me back to a simpler time.

[–] FapFlop 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like the 802.11 scheme. :(

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm only mad that they changed it because I put the effort in to learn the 802.11 standard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Now do Ipv4 vs IPv6. Everything you learned is worthless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

POPQUIZ: THE 802 standard for VLANs
Times ticking...

[–] AtariDump 1 points 11 months ago

Nope. Was wrong. No idea without looking it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

.1Q because Q has a tag on it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whoever is behind USB version naming schemes, please take notice.

[–] tagliatelle 7 points 11 months ago

they have? And both wifi and UsB is still a mess to understand under the name.