December 26th, 2016

Wireless AC is, unfortunately, not what it sounds like

I saw a laptop advertised as supporting “Wireless AC”.

I thought to myself, “Sweet, no more power cables!”

Unfortunately, it was not referring to wireless alternating current. It was referring to the 802.11ac wireless networking standard.

Because of course the standard that comes after 802.11n should be called 802.11ac.

The first few 802.11 wireless networking standard revisions have been named 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, and 802.11ac.

A, B, G, N, AC.

Apparently alphabetical order is hard.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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