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> People need to abandon this silly crusade to insist that "5ghz band" does not have an 802.11 designator, as if it is a feature with no name or something. Th
by wtallis 5y ago
> People need to abandon this silly crusade to insist that "5ghz band" does not have an 802.11 designator, as if it is a feature with no name or something.
The problem, which you're ignoring, is that there are multiple 802.11 standards for operating in the 5GHz band. Treating the oldest and slowest among them as if it's synonymous with all 5GHz WiFi is just plain wrong, because the successive standards for 5GHz WiFi have meaningful improvements in capability.
- kelnos 5y agoI used to work for a networking hardware company, and it's been a while, but even through the 802.11n days, we all called the 2.4GHz band "g-band" and 5GHz band "a-band". (Granted the person you were replying to also said 300Mbps on 802.11a, which is of course not possible.)