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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by summm on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:17AM (#27538039)
This is a testament to the abject failure that is the wifi protocol and its popular implementations. Everything that needs to be done here would be possible with some simple wifi-based broadcast (like "ad-hoc" back in the days?) and the possibility for a phone to connect to multiple wifi networks at once. Not sure if this is for political or economic reasons, or just incompetence.
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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by MayeulC on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:44AM (#27538526)
WiFi Aware "NAN" and WiFi Direct "P2P" should help quite a bit. NAN specifically allows local broadcasts.

One thing that's a bit sad is that better authentication (PEAP) isn't widely supoirted or easy to set up.

Unfortunately, I've found it very hard to toy with Wi-Fi. I'm not sure older chipsets can implement these features.

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