802.11g – the people’s Wi-Fi
IEEE Std 802.11g-2003, aka Amendment 4, showed up right when Wi-Fi needed it most. launched in 2003, no official "Task Group G" label floating around, just more solid work from the 802.11 crew. and unlike some earlier amendments, this one caught fire in the real world.
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802.11d – the one that made Wi-Fi go global
next up: IEEE Std 802.11d-2001, aka Amendment 3. dropped in 2001, and while it didn’t make headlines like the others, it was quietly essential. no official Task Group D – just another product of the 802.11 working group doing its thing.
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802.11b – the one that actually took off
this one hit different. officially known as IEEE Std 802.11b-1999, it showed up the same year as 11a – but unlike its faster sibling, 11b made the real splash. dropped in '99, confirmed again in 2003, and patched up a bit in 2001 with a corrigendum. not flashy, but it got the job done.
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802.11a – the first one out the gate
so yeah, this was the very first amendment ever to the original 802.11 spec – called IEEE Std 802.11a-1999. came out in ‘99, got officially confirmed in 2003. no fancy task group name back then, just called "Amendment 1" by the good old IEEE 802.11 working group.
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when random talks turn into blog ideas
some time ago a neighbour dropped by, asking weird stuff about car-to-car communication. turns out he’s doing some nav dev work for Bosch, not the fancy kind, more like boring routing routines. anyway, we ended up chatting about 802.11p and how it’s kinda the silent hero in that field.
and somehow, i got stuck with this idea – what if i just start a blog? not a fancy one, just plain old rambling through all those ieee 802.11 amendments. one by one. break them down like i explain them to a half-interested friend over coffee. and also maybe take a moment to praise the folks who made them happen. i mean, those amendment teams don’t get enough credit.
so yeah – here we go. one amendment at a time.
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