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What does the 6 mean?(lemmy.world)

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

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Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu
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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.

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anlumo@feddit.de
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They also weren’t compatible with each other. That was fun.

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naticus@lemmy.world
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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.

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