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Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6::There are a lot of 'draft' Wi-Fi 7 devices around, but 'Wi-Fi 7 Certified' devices will only come to market sometime next year.

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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 93 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How am I supposed to keep track without the two letter suffix that's non sequential?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Look at mister fancy pants over here with 2 letters while the rest of us are using the totally understandable "b" or "g" or "n."

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 14 points 2 years ago

AX gang all day, baybee.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

802.11b will always be my favorite. Brings me back to a simpler time.

[–] FapFlop@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm only mad that they changed it because I put the effort in to learn the 802.11 standard.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

POPQUIZ: THE 802 standard for VLANs
Times ticking...

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nope. Was wrong. No idea without looking it up.

[–] noUsernamesLef7 1 points 1 year ago

.1Q because Q has a tag on it

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoever is behind USB version naming schemes, please take notice.

[–] tagliatelle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

they have? And both wifi and UsB is still a mess to understand under the name.