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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You want to be really confused then? Because b is WiFi 1 and a is WiFi 2. Everything else you said is correct though.
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.
They also weren’t compatible with each other. That was fun.
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.
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”
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.