https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481632
--- Comment #10 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Antti Savolainen from comment #6) > After giving it some thought overnight, I came to the conclusion that maybe > using a combined string like "Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)" would be beneficial. > > For starters there are many, many, many devices that still use and are in > production that use the lettering naming scheme. OpenWRT for example, > despite being open source, still uses letters to set the wi-fi generation > for a radio. > > Secondly it would allow power user to create the mental connection between > the naming schemes by always seeing them next to each other. I prefer the "Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)" naming scheme too in the details page! It seems to me like a bridge between the new naming scheme with 4,5,6,7 and the old one 802.x(x), which is actually way more common. Besides OpenWRT, which I use on my router, I have searched over the years and still do, the specifications of mobile phones on GSMArena website / database and they use the 802.x(x) scheme to explain which generations the mobile phones can use. Since who knows when all these other projects and websites will switch to just 4,5,6,7, as a power user, I would definitely like to be reminded more often which is which until I remember them well. Also I would like to know if I configured well my Router with OpenWRT or my hotspot on my LineageOS phone. As for visuals, I wouldn't mind to see one of the 4,5,6,7 in the bottom-left corner of the signal / power level (waves-like) indicator, similar to how the password-protected lock indicator is in the bottom-right corner. And I think I would prefer that the lock indicator would be moved on the left corner and the generation number would be put on the right, where the lock indicator currently is. Since both the lock and the generation indicator will be in the bottom-left and right corners of the icon, I don't think that they affect in any way the signal / power / level indicator that will still have enough vertical space to add or subtract as many waves as it wants. Do as you wish of course! I just wanted to give my feedback with the fact that I would prefer to see something like "Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)" on the details page. And both the lock and the number (opposite to the lock indicator) in the bottom corners of the signal / power-level icon. If I configure my router to advertise the networks on different generations, as the same name, let's say "My-network" instead of: My-network-4 My-network-5 My-network-6 My-network-7 Then would be very interesting to see what the connection managers (WPA supplicant or IWD) and the Wifi card drivers has chosen to connect to automatically, which can be fast to see / know, if the icon also has the 4,5,6,7 or a bit less fast, but still good in the details page. As a power user I like to know if my computer, similar to my phone is using the best connection speed for internet, in case there is something to change to improve it somewhere and the easier I find out this information, is generally the better for me. Also, while a pretty low probability of happening but still possible: If I were using an open (passwordless) Wi-fi network and somebody created another one with exactly the same name... If I were using a closed (password-protected) Wifi or the network of a neighbor who previously gave me his / her Wi-fi password from the router or hotspot they own and I forgot to delete it... It would be much easier and faster to spot that something is not right and I'm not connected to the right network as I pretty much never go the the Details page if I don't have to and when I do I don't check the MAC addresses of the Access Point as I don't remember them. The Wi-fi generation first and the frequency second would be easy tells to know that something is not right and I'm not connected to the network I think I'm using, since normally I know both the generation and the frequency that my Router and phone can provide. The network name, since it's so easily to be spoofed and honestly a close enough neighbor with better equipment can even have better signal than me, which would made me thing that the neighbor's network is my network since it has the name that I know and the best signal, is not such a secure thing if we're thinking a bit about security. The generation and the frequency might be harder to spoof or or both of them combined with the network name. At least until one day Plasma will have a warning and maybe questions about which is the right one, when it sees multiple access points offering networks with the same name. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
