• towerful@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    WiFi has literally gone the opposite of USB.
    It used to be obvious what USB speeds were, whereas WiFi was 802.11b or whatever.
    Now we have WiFi 5 or WiFi 6. And we have USB-C PD 10gbps with AltMode

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      1 year ago

      USB has gotten more complicated and does way more now in more contexts. It charges laptops now, it carries multiplexed displayport signals, it does its own handshake and performs hardware level initialization protocols.

      Meanwhile we’ve been wanting the same thing out of wifi since the start. Nothing’s really changed, we just want it to go faster.

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        1 year ago

        You’re thinking of USB-C, not the USB standard. USB PD, Alternative Mode and Thunderbolt aren’t part of the USB spec.

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          1 year ago

          No, I’m thinking about the port. Which is what we are talking about. Usb-c, usb-pd, thunderbolt, etc, all use the same port. I can use the same cable in the same port for all of these.