Talk:IEEE 802.11 (legacy mode)

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Why does this article discuss 11b and skip 11a

I do not know much about the talk page standards or wireless in itself but I would like to mention that it speaks about 802.11b before it mentions the transition of 802.11a. Is this just missing information or deliberate?

Deliberate, but maybe you can help clarify. Basically 802.11 was release in 1997 specifying three different protocols (one IR and two in the 2.4G band) with many loopholes. They quickly tightened the spec, and re-released it in 1999. But at basically the same time also releasing releasing 802.11a and 802.11b. 11a specified a brand new wholly incompatible mode that ran up to 54Mbs using OFDM in the 5Ghz band. 11b meanwhile remained backward compatible to the legacy DSSS mode in the 2.4Ghz of the original spec, but expanded on it by specifying some new encoding schemes to push the datarate up to 11 Mps (from the previous max of 2Mps). -- KelleyCook (talk) 16:22, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still confusing after all these years. Maybe just merge into the top-level 802.11 article? Or is that one too long already? W Nowicki (talk) 23:48, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Home RF

Is this what was sometimes called "Home RF"? I recall a large amount of surplus 1 and 2 megabit/second wireless equipment hit the market dirt cheap when the 802.11b standard was finalized. (Home PNA gear for low speed computer networking over phone lines also hit the bricks about the same time.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 08:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article now, see HomeRF. W Nowicki (talk) 23:48, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speeds

Is it 1mbps in infrared and 2mbps in radio (both dsss and frequency hopping)? I think that line is not very clear.

188.58.21.168 (talk) 21:58, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Clarifying relationship between 802.11 and 802.11b

I find this sentence ambiguous: "The DSSS version of legacy 802.11 was rapidly supplemented (and popularized) by the 802.11b amendment in 1999, which increased the bit rate to 11 Mbit/s."

Would it be correct to change it to the following?: "The DSSS version of legacy 802.11 was rapidly supplemented (and popularized) by the backwards-compatible 802.11b amendment in 1999, which increased the maximum bit rate to 11 Mbit/s, albeit with a different modulation scheme (CCK) for the new bit rates" SandStone (talk) 02:23, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]