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Wi-Fi alliance renames 802.11b sensibly... 19 years later |
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October 03rd, 2018 |
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I have been in many, many, many arguments over the years over |
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which is faster: 802.11b, or 802.11a... Folks make this really |
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lame assumption that an increment of the Wi-Fi letter (A > B) |
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means that 802.11b is better than 802.11a just because the |
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letter is higher... Couldn't be further from the truth! |
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Barring attenuation issues, 802.11a has some serious advantages |
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over 802.11b; including (in some countries) higher transmit |
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power, more available free channels, higher speed (12, 18, 24, |
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36, 48, 54 stream data rates vs B's max of 11), less channel |
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bandwidth (20 MHz vs 22 MHz), and most 802.11a hardware is made |
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better than 802.11b hardware... |
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That being said, I am glad that the Wi-Fi alliance has finally |
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decided to retcon some older versions of Wi-Fi (and even current |
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versions) into some names that are much more indicative of which |
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is better: |
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Wi-Fi 1 == 802.11b |
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Wi-Fi 2 == 802.11a |
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Wi-Fi 3 == 802.11g |
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Wi-Fi 4 == 802.11n |
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Wi-Fi 5 == 802.11ac |
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So after a year or two after these names catch on, and someone |
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wants to argue with me about it, I'm going to use their lack of |
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reasoning against them: "WTF do you mean Wi-Fi 1 is better than |
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Wi-Fi 2?, the number is lower!" |
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Hahaha >:) |
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The Verge 2018/10/3 Wi-Fi now has version numbers, and Wi-Fi 6 URL: |
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comes out next year |
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