Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
by WorldMaker on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:37PM
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I think 802.11-1997 works as 0 in this case. The implication from the Wi-Fi Alliance seems to be they are counting consumer hardware generations, and there doesn't seem to have been much consumer hardware that was directly 802.11-1997 (it took b to get consumer adoption). Which is why the order I've heard that makes the most sense is 1 (b), 2 (a), 3 (g), because that was roughly the consumer hardwave waves, with the brief (a) hardware wave the fun out-of-order one.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:37PM
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a and b were specced at the same time though, so it's really weird to look at a+b+g as anything other than two generations.
Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
by WorldMaker on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:30PM
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That's certainly a fair viewpoint (and reflected together in the spec version 802.11-1999), but the interesting thing about this rebrand is the Wi-Fi Alliance taking a step back, realizing that the individual specs don't matter to consumers and as a consumer brand trying to break away from just using the spec names/versions.
From that perspective A, B, and G were all sold as three separate things to consumers, so it makes sense to count all three.