It's not the Alliance's fault, no. But the WLAN industry is becoming a wretched mess of "if this, then that" among device types, code/driver versions, and the various "waves" and other sub-versions of 802.11 standards. The LAST ones who should have to figure it all out is the consumer. The members of the Alliance aren't very allied, and that is my point. ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Julian Y Koh <kohs...@northwestern.edu> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:50:03 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Status of Wi-Fi 6 Client Drivers?
On Sep 23, 2020, at 16:38, Lee H Badman <000000db5b77bd95-dmarc-requ...@listserv.educause.edu<mailto:000000db5b77bd95-dmarc-requ...@listserv.educause.edu>> wrote: What is truly frustrating is that all vendors involved are likely members of the Wi-Fi Alliance, whose "interoperability" testing obviously isn't getting it done. I hear the frustration in general, but in this specific case it seems like the frustration should be directed not at the fact that there are incompatible drivers but the difficulty in being able to update those drivers? It’s not the Wi-Fi Alliance’s fault that users have to figure out to download new drivers directly from the NIC manufacturer instead of just getting them as part of an automatic update process, is it? -- Julian Y. Koh Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern Information Technology 2020 Ridge Avenue #331 Evanston, IL 60208 +1-847-467-5780 Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key: <https://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
