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Subject: Re: Nomenclature for USB-connected WiFi devices
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On 23.07.23 18:04, Alan Stern wrote:
> If you've got a WiFi device that connects to the host computer via USB,
> do you refer to it as a "wireless USB device" or as a "USB wireless
> device"?
> 
> The second would seem to be more logical, by analogy with things like a
> USB mouse or a USB thumbdrive -- we don't say "mouse USB device" or
> "thumbdrive USB device"!

If you are doing this, why not go to USB WiFi? We want to know what
kind of wireless device it is.

	Regards
		Oliver