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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well it's not like Big They made it particularly clear with the naming scheme.

"Wi-Fi" is an entirely non-descriptive name, it's supposed to be "like Hi-Fi, but with a W for Wireless." It doesn't indicate what it does at all. The typical unwashed mass just wants to know what button to push in iOS to make it get on Instagram. Wi-Fi is synonymous with internet access in their minds; iPhones and iPads don't have Ethernet sockets, and they've got no use for local traffic because their Apple products are thousand dollar Tiktok appliances.

So yeah, "Wi-Fi" means "internet access" to more people than it means "IEEE 802.11"

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