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Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward

Posted by samzenpus on from the state-of-things dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The IEEE MAN/LAN Standards Committee — better known as the people who brought us Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth — is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week. This article has interviews with the original committee chairman and other veteran members, and reveals some of the inside situation. It also looks at some of the upcoming 802.x standards including one that sends data by modulating visible light."

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  1. Get the configuration right by thoughtspace · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am staggered how complicated it is to setup WiFi a lay-person. Far too much jargon (SSID, WPA, WPA2, WEP, TKIP, AES+TKIP, channels ...), and stupid ideas like multiple WEP keys. Let alone connecting via ethernet, change the subnet, browse to an IP address, etc etc etc just to get it going. What an awful decade of design.

    Look ... from day 1 we just wanted a secret password.

    Public networks are different and need to be publicly identified - don't shoe-horn it into the same user interface.

    Start thinking like a user and stop this engineers crap.