Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 4 months agoOpen source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardwarewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1864arrow-down111
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-5•4 months agoI know what a Wide Area Network is. I’m just saying the acronym is ambiguous since the advent of WiFi
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•4 months agoNot really. WAN has always been WAN. Wireless has always been WLAN.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-24 months agolan is local area network wan is wide area network wlan is wireless local wwan is wireless wan
I know what a Wide Area Network is. I’m just saying the acronym is ambiguous since the advent of WiFi
Not really. WAN has always been WAN. Wireless has always been WLAN.
lan is local area network
wan is wide area network
wlan is wireless local
wwan is wireless wan