Re: "Safe" cell phone WiFi capabilities?

On 2024-05-17, Don Y wrote:

On 5/17/2024 5:55 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:

On 2024-05-17, Don Y wrote:

For "nominal" cell phones (i.e., taking into consideration
that not ever subscriber buys The Latest and Greatest),
what's the "base" WiFi capability one would feel comfortable
assuming?  ac?  ax?

 
Assuming you're limiting the question to the set of cellphones that
actually implement wifi, 802.11b ... but what are you *REALLY* trying to
ask for?

>
There are several different "generations" of WiFi, each with
different effective (data) bandwidths.
>
The most commonly referenced include:  802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g,
802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ax and, most recently, 802.11be.  The

It's almost like that list is ... all of the options. 

[Note that n is a ~2008 era technology while ac is ~2015
and ax is ~2020.  Does this suggest that any phone made
"within the last 5 years" -- an interval Martin suggests
should cover "most" phones now in use -- should be "ax"?]

No. /FLAGSHIP/ models certainly have a high chance of supporting
802.11ax, but that doesn't mean "any" phone.

Again, what are you *REALLY* trying to ascertain here?

The most basic support is still 802.11b; and that'll probably be kind of
"forever" (at least until 2.4 GHz is completely abandoned), same as how
10mbit is still the most basic ethernet-over-twisted-pair support.

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