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 > To: Make-Wifi-fast > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Make-wifi-fast mailing list > Make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/make-wifi-fast