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> I cannot for the life of me understand why the standards committee cares much about various other minor improvements when these issues are still unsolved after two decades.

It's different people.

WiFi is a pretty wide field. There are plenty of people whose interests and/or qualifications only extend to part of it. Should they just sit around twiddling their thumbs if the parts they can contribute to aren't the parts with the biggest issues?

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You can re-phrase my main question as: why is there enough interest in doing these minor improvements when there is apparently little interest in fixing the major and long-lasting deficiencies?

In the context of this thread, IEEE aren't the ones who can improve such things. WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 both make considerable improvements on connect time but at the end of the day, they deal with the "backend" if you will.

They have no control over crappy WiFi NIC cards that delay connections or how Apple displays captive portals.

I think what you call minor improvements would be considered significant to others who may benefit from it.

> why is there enough interest in doing these minor improvements...

Why are people working on improvements to wi-fi at all, when there are people around the world dying of hunger?

If you can answer that, I think you'll be able to answer your own question.

No. Ending hunger is hard.

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