When WiFi started..

[joxley1990]

Cut a long story short, assignment in tomorrow, just doing finishing touches, does anyone know the year WiFi was first introduced, and the speeds they were back then?

Thanks for all help..

 

[freestyler105]

Check out this wiki, it has some good stuff about it. It says that

The precursor to Wi-Fi was invented in 1991 by NCR Corporation/AT&T (later Lucent & Agere Systems) in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. It was initially intended for cashier systems; the first wireless products were brought on the market under the name WaveLAN with speeds of 1 Mbit/s to 2 Mbit/s. Vic Hayes, who was the primary inventor of Wi-Fi and has been named the 'father of Wi-Fi,' was involved in designing standards such as IEEE 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11

 

[joxley1990]

Check out this wiki, it has some good stuff about it. It says that

Thanks alot mate, great help.. +Rep

John, doesn't have history, sorry.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

heres more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wifi

 

[joxley1990]

Done

Hope I get a merit..

 

[freestyler105]

Thanks joxley, hope you do well on it.