Understanding IEEE 802.11

At the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), several groups of technical professionals as a committee are working on projects, and one of these is 802, which is responsible for developing Local Area Networks (LAN) standards. Specifically, 802.11 contains WLAN standards.

There are a couple of 802.11 standards, for an outmost coverage of standards we will discuss the multiple of them such as 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n:

  • 802.11: Supports a network bandwidth of 1-2 Mbps. This is the reason why many 802.11-compatible devices have become obsolete.
  • 802.11b: This specification uses a signaling frequency of 2.4 Ghz like the 802.11 standard. Technically, a maximum of 11 Mbit transmission rate ...

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