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It just hit me that all of what is now sold as WiFi 6 does not in fact have a 6 GHz radio. The incompetence is breathtaking, it's been a year since they revampe

It just hit me that all of what is now sold as WiFi 6 does not in fact have a 6 GHz radio. The incompetence is breathtaking, it's been a year since they revamped all of their naming and it's already fucked again.

AlphaSite 7y ago
I’m not sure that ghz and version number were ever intended to be interchangeable, were they? I think if it happened it would be a happy coincidence.
- tradertef 7y ago
  True, it is coincidence IEEE 802.11 --> Wi-Fi 1 IEEE 802.11b --> Wi-Fi 2 IEEE 802.11a --> Wi-Fi 3 IEEE 802.11n --> Wi-Fi 4 IEEE 802.11ac --> Wi-Fi 5 IEEE 802.11ax --> Wi-Fi 6 IEEE 802.11ax in 6 GHz --> Wi-Fi 6E IEEE 802.11be --> Wi-Fi 7 Has nothing todo with GHz frequency.
willidiots 7y ago
The intent of "Wi-Fi 6" is to start versioning Wi-Fi numerically (i.e. the next major rev will be Wi-Fi 7) instead of the IEEE's ever-lengthening 802.11 alphabet soup. It's just a coincidence that we're also talking about 6 GHz at the same time. No formal relation.
- delfinom 7y ago
  The alphabet soup still makes more sense than names like USB Gen 3.2 2x2. Then again, because the door has been opened now by marketing guys to stray away from engineer driven names. It won't be long until WIFI 7 ULTIMATE ULTRA EXTREME 4 PRO EDITION is a thing.
- sneak 7y ago
  Then why is GP referring to 6E? Sounds like more alphabet soup, to me.
  - freehunter 7y ago
    That’s actually fairly standard naming in networking, like cat5 cables, cat5e is cat5 but after fixing a few bugs in the standard. Cat6 came out later and supersedes cat5 and cat5e. Think of it like 6.1 instead of 6E. Minor revision to the existing standard.
    - tradertef 7y ago
      Partially true. 6E is specific to 6GHz and not a revision of Wi-Fi 6.
willis936 7y ago
It could be worse. You could have a business facing physical layer made by the same people and spend weeks trying to decipher what someone means when they says 802.3bj as opposed to 802.3-2015 when referencing 100GBASE-CR4, or it's medium-less counterpart: CAUI-4.

AlphaSite 7y ago

I’m not sure that ghz and version number were ever intended to be interchangeable, were they? I think if it happened it would be a happy coincidence.

tradertef 7y ago
True, it is coincidence IEEE 802.11 --> Wi-Fi 1 IEEE 802.11b --> Wi-Fi 2 IEEE 802.11a --> Wi-Fi 3 IEEE 802.11n --> Wi-Fi 4 IEEE 802.11ac --> Wi-Fi 5 IEEE 802.11ax --> Wi-Fi 6 IEEE 802.11ax in 6 GHz --> Wi-Fi 6E IEEE 802.11be --> Wi-Fi 7 Has nothing todo with GHz frequency.

willidiots 7y ago

The intent of "Wi-Fi 6" is to start versioning Wi-Fi numerically (i.e. the next major rev will be Wi-Fi 7) instead of the IEEE's ever-lengthening 802.11 alphabet soup. It's just a coincidence that we're also talking about 6 GHz at the same time. No formal relation.

delfinom 7y ago
The alphabet soup still makes more sense than names like USB Gen 3.2 2x2. Then again, because the door has been opened now by marketing guys to stray away from engineer driven names. It won't be long until WIFI 7 ULTIMATE ULTRA EXTREME 4 PRO EDITION is a thing.
sneak 7y ago
Then why is GP referring to 6E? Sounds like more alphabet soup, to me.
- freehunter 7y ago
  That’s actually fairly standard naming in networking, like cat5 cables, cat5e is cat5 but after fixing a few bugs in the standard. Cat6 came out later and supersedes cat5 and cat5e. Think of it like 6.1 instead of 6E. Minor revision to the existing standard.
  - tradertef 7y ago
    Partially true. 6E is specific to 6GHz and not a revision of Wi-Fi 6.

willis936 7y ago

It could be worse. You could have a business facing physical layer made by the same people and spend weeks trying to decipher what someone means when they says 802.3bj as opposed to 802.3-2015 when referencing 100GBASE-CR4, or it's medium-less counterpart: CAUI-4.