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Oh, that's ofcourse why I had 802.11b far before Centrino ever existed (wireless router + pcmcia for several notebooks). And I was the only one smart enough to predict the standard a year before Centrino. I must be REALLY smart :)

Intel adopted THE standard, after that standard established itself as such in the marketplace.

And BTW my pcmcia solution from back then interacts just fine with Centrino hotspots that only emerged years later. How the heck is that possible if Intel 'solved the interoperability problems'? I'm still using it now and then.

The widespread INTEGRATION of WiFi was FOR A BIG PART driven by the Centrino platform. That's all Intel did. Intel put its volume behind the established standard making it an even more solid standard. Centrino speeded up adoption rate of 802.11b, and made hot spots far more plentiful than we'd otherwise would have seen. What it didn't do is establishing 802.11b (now g) as the industry standard. It was in fact so far behind that it had to license Philips hardware for their complete wireless solution. All in all Intel's contribution to adoption of 802.11b was still very sizeable.

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