What is WiFi ? and How it is different from WLAN?
mrleo99098 18-November-2008 05:26:12 PM
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WLAN : Acronym for wireless local-area network. Also referred to as LAWN. A type of local-area network that uses high-frequency radio waves rather than wires to communicate between nodes.

Wi-fi:Short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. The term is promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Any products tested and approved as "Wi-Fi Certified" (a registered trademark) by the Wi-Fi Alliance are certified as interoperable with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers. A user with a "Wi-Fi Certified" product can use any brand of access point with any other brand of client hardware that also is certified. Typically, however, any Wi-Fi product using the same radio frequency (for example, 2.4GHz for 802.11b or 11g, 5GHz for 802.11a) will work with any other, even if not "Wi-Fi Certified."
Posted by jahangir1983


is a set of standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) computer ..... The Wi-Fi Alliance announced an interim specification called Wi- Fi ...
please visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11 - 85k
Posted by waqasahmad


Wifi is basically WPAN which is used for less geographical area and WLAN is basically WiMax and have just as LAN implemented is wireless
Posted by HamidAliKhan


See these links it might give you some help

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-wifi.htm
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/staff/networks/wireless/faq.html
Posted by Hash007


YOU can say wlan is for short area and wifi is also for short are but greater than wlan.
Posted by waqqas1


WLAN : Acronym for wireless local-area network. Also referred to as LAWN. A type of local-area network that uses high-frequency radio waves rather than wires to communicate between nodes.

Wi-fi:Short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. The term is promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Any products tested and approved as "Wi-Fi Certified" (a registered trademark) by the Wi-Fi Alliance are certified as interoperable with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers. A user with a "Wi-Fi Certified" product can use any brand of access point with any other brand of client hardware that also is certified. Typically, however, any Wi-Fi product using the same radio frequency (for example, 2.4GHz for 802.11b or 11g, 5GHz for 802.11a) will work with any other, even if not "Wi-Fi Certified."
From answers.yahoo.com
Posted by sagitraz


Posted: 19-November-2008 12:35:44 AM By: sagitraz

WLAN : Acronym for wireless local-area network. Also referred to as LAWN. A type of local-area network that uses high-frequency radio waves rather than wires to communicate between nodes.

Wi-fi:Short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. The term is promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Any products tested and approved as "Wi-Fi Certified" (a registered trademark) by the Wi-Fi Alliance are certified as interoperable with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers. A user with a "Wi-Fi Certified" product can use any brand of access point with any other brand of client hardware that also is certified. Typically, however, any Wi-Fi product using the same radio frequency (for example, 2.4GHz for 802.11b or 11g, 5GHz for 802.11a) will work with any other, even if not "Wi-Fi Certified."
From answers.yahoo.com

Posted: 20-November-2008 12:30:26 AM By: waqqas1

YOU can say wlan is for short area and wifi is also for short are but greater than wlan.

Posted: 20-November-2008 05:45:31 AM By: Hash007

See these links it might give you some help

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-wifi.htm
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/staff/networks/wireless/faq.html

Posted: 20-November-2008 09:58:08 AM By: HamidAliKhan

Wifi is basically WPAN which is used for less geographical area and WLAN is basically WiMax and have just as LAN implemented is wireless

Posted: 29-December-2008 01:02:50 AM By: waqasahmad

is a set of standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) computer ..... The Wi-Fi Alliance announced an interim specification called Wi- Fi ...
please visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11 - 85k

Posted: 16-January-2009 12:25:12 AM By: jahangir1983

WLAN : Acronym for wireless local-area network. Also referred to as LAWN. A type of local-area network that uses high-frequency radio waves rather than wires to communicate between nodes.

Wi-fi:Short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. The term is promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Any products tested and approved as "Wi-Fi Certified" (a registered trademark) by the Wi-Fi Alliance are certified as interoperable with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers. A user with a "Wi-Fi Certified" product can use any brand of access point with any other brand of client hardware that also is certified. Typically, however, any Wi-Fi product using the same radio frequency (for example, 2.4GHz for 802.11b or 11g, 5GHz for 802.11a) will work with any other, even if not "Wi-Fi Certified."