Talk: Wi-Fi
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I moved this:
- So far to my knowledge there are no applications that really would benefit of WLAN or be specially programmed to work over WLAN. The same applications would naturally work with desktops too, because WLAN stackwise is only on the two first layers of OSI stack. A special WLAN application would be for example a video stream that adapts to the altering transmission rate.
from the "Disadvantages of WiFi" section, because I'm not sure what the author is trying to say, and I have doubts over it's accuracy (I'm no WiFi expert, however). At the very least it needs to be clarified and edited.
I also heavily copyedited, NPOVed and removed some of the material in these adv/disadv sections as much of it was written in first-person and was irrelevant to WiFi, consisting of the personal opinion of the author on laptops and operating systems (Windows). -- Lexor 12:20, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Is it really true that Apple was the "first" to make commercial use of 802.11b and 802.11g? I'm skeptical. I qualified it in 802.11b, and was wondering about g. Fuzheado 13:38, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- AFAIK, this is true - Apple was first to market with Airport (802.11b), then Airport Extreme (802.11g). In the case of Airport, it was quite a while before there was an alternative available for PCs. GRAHAMUK 04:05, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I'm going to change it though, since Apple itself only makes the claim, "the first major manufacturer to adopt 802.11g." Fuzheado 00:20, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
AnswerMe are WLAN and Wi-Fi the same thing? -- Chris Q 07:45, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Nope. There are all sorts of other Wireless LAN implementations. Wi-Fi is mostly just a marketing term applied to 802.11 (if you really want to be picky, it was originally focused on 802.11b, but 802.11a and 802.11g are starting to fall under the term as well). —Mulad 08:06, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Please expand "an hour of building can get you an antenna that will go much further" How much further and what do you build?
