From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: Make-Wifi-fast <make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] 20 year anniversary of wifi
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:33:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1909181330270.25233@nftneq.ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw7ftRPVqewELJqw91m7moOLvvezvhtf_OwtZY+8hoWE-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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I had some homerf devices, they were signficantly slower than 802.11b but they
were also far cheaper (they were ~$150 for a card where 802.11b were ~$800 each)
a few years later the 'junk' vendors started producing 802.11b devices, the
prices dropped, and they caught on.
David Lang
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Dave Taht wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:46:38 +0100
> From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
> To: Make-Wifi-fast <make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net>
> Subject: [Make-wifi-fast] 20 year anniversary of wifi
>
> I remember experimenting with "homeRF". I cannot remember for the life
> of me what it was like.
>
> and to me, why wifi took off was that it had a strong investment by
> apple AND heavy interest from the geek community, with a couple
> drivers that actually worked, and because of the coffee shop
> phenomenon....
>
> Shure, everything else here was important, too:
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/how-wi-fi-almost-didnt-happen/
> --
>
> Dave Täht
> CTO, TekLibre, LLC
> http://www.teklibre.com
> Tel: 1-831-205-9740
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-18 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-16 22:46 Dave Taht
2019-09-18 18:57 ` David P. Reed
2019-09-18 20:33 ` David Lang [this message]
2019-09-19 19:10 ` Bob McMahon
2019-09-26 22:32 ` Dave Taht
2019-09-27 1:14 ` David P. Reed
2019-09-27 21:15 ` Bob McMahon
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