Flashback: a look back at Wi-Fi's history

19 February 2023
You see a lot of phones with "5G" in their name these days, but a lot of our Internet usage still goes through good old (and not so old) Wi-Fi.

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Anonymous, 19 Feb 2023i think the current wifi tech only applies to personal use ... moreI do meant personal use tho.
I go to friends/families houses and i kept seeing the exact same default router that the ISP gives to them.

    If only there was someone ultimately in charge who could set a sensible spec,then enforce full exploitation of that technology before introducing the next.
    It should have been perfectly possible to implement some form of" sleep if not in use" protocol years ago, imagine how many power stations output that would have saved over say, the last 10 years. ?
    Poor WiFi and/or mobile network signals eat battery quicker than many big games do, any savings made soon add up to impressive figures simply because of the billions of devices in use on the planet now...

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      • 19 Feb 2023

      GAMIR3DH, 19 Feb 2023Sadly all the current WiFi Access points in my country have... morei think the current wifi tech only applies to personal use like home wireless router..all wifi public maybe stay at wifi 4 or 5

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        • 19 Feb 2023

        wifi? we dont do that here...we only do fiber optic..as for free wifi? wifi 4 is enough

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          • Lkg
          • 19 Feb 2023

          8g2 allows wifi7, brands refuse to offer

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            • n$n
            • 19 Feb 2023

            This is pretty interesting because internet as whole is like 60 years old or so.
            And the first dial up modems were sluggish and super slow.
            Even a verz old turtle with all four legs broken and on returement would be a lot faster.

              GAMIR3DH, 19 Feb 2023Sadly all the current WiFi Access points in my country have... moreSame here and it doesn't look like it's coming anytime soon

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                • mAn
                • 19 Feb 2023

                Shout out to WiFi B on the PSP!

                  Sadly all the current WiFi Access points in my country have the older standard, like WiFi 5 when WiFi 6 exists or even older.
                  But phones do have the newer WiFi options. Now 5Ghz WiFi works fine but the range is very short.

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                    • PTF
                    • 19 Feb 2023

                    Meanwhile braindead USB-IF with their USB 3.0, USB 3.1 gen 1, USB 3.1 gen 2, USB 3.2 gen 1, USB 3.2 gen 2, USB 3.2 gen 1x2, USB 3.2 gen 2x2, USB4 and USB 4 version 2.0 .

                      AnonD-1037771, 19 Feb 2023'Member dialup? It took like 10-15 minutes just to dow... moreWifi is just means to transfer data, you can use Dial up with wifi too. So wifi didint make internet faster.

                        Back in 2013 I don't know what WiFi is, at that time I was using Galaxy Star (my first smartphone). After I used it, I realized this is a very useful feature.

                          I was always going in front of some building in my place just to catch that one free Wi-Fi 💀

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                            AnonD-1042738, 19 Feb 2023I remember the old days where i went to places just for WiFi 😂 'Member dialup? It took like 10-15 minutes just to download a wallpaper from serious wheels dot com 😂
                            Wifi seemed like alien technology after that.

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                              • 19 Feb 2023

                              I remember the old days where i went to places just for WiFi 😂

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