What’s your evidence, Richard Easton??!?

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Our mother who art in WiFi
Thy beacon come
Thou handshake be done
In ac as in 802.11

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ACK

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Let me tempt you with some SYN

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SYN-ACK

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No thanks, I’m FIN.

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Wait til he finds out that the first computer programs were written by some poet with daddy issues

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Wifi doesn’t use frequency hopping. That’s bluetooth.

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https://www.ieee802.org/11/Documents/DocumentArchives/1996_docs/1196049D_scan.pdf

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum PHY of the 802.11 Wireless LAN Standard

Edit: h3ndrik@feddit.de is correct. FHSS was quickly dropped for DSSS and OFDM, and FHSS is not used in any modern WiFi specs. You can see the list in table 7.6 here https://www.pearsonitcertification.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1329709&seqNum=4

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It may be dropped, but it was used in the beginning

Wouldn’t that not still make her the mother of Wifi?

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Hehehe, you can call her the mother of early 802.11 and Bluetooth.

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But that’s not part of 802.11n or 802.11g or “a” or what we call “Wifi”… 802.11 in itself is a pretty long standard, including all kinds of different things.

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From the wiki page

During the late 1930s, Lamarr attended arms deals with her then-husband arms dealer Fritz Mandl, “possibly to improve his chances of making a sale”.[41] From the meetings, she learned that navies needed “a way to guide a torpedo as it raced through the water.” Radio control had been proposed. However, an enemy might be able to jam such a torpedo’s guidance system and set it off course.[42] When later discussing this with a new friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, her idea to prevent jamming by frequency hopping met Antheil’s previous work in music. In that earlier work, Antheil attempted synchronizing note-hopping in the avant-garde piece written as a score for the film Ballet Mechanique that involved multiple synchronized player pianos. Antheil’s idea in the piece was to synchronize the start time of identical player pianos with identical player piano rolls, so the pianos would be playing in time with one another. Together, they realized that radio frequencies could be changed similarly, using the same kind of mechanism, but miniaturized.[4][41]

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Gotcha, WiFi is a bunch of tiny pianists in a box

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That’s why memes are hard to understand- I’m tone deaf.

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