🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: How Australia’s CSIRO Helped Invent Wi-Fi! (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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the cutting room floor today, let's talk Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I like this story.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Tell you about wi Fi?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know about why? Well?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know this that Wi Fi was invented at the
c s I R right here in Australia. Let me
get up this information here is let me find something.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay, I thought you were off the top of your head. Well,
I know that wi Fi. I can tell you this.
I'm going to debunk something.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Can I tell you mine? Then?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Your wi fi is not short form for wireless fidelity.
It's not. It's just that's not about that.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
They like it because it sounds similar to high fi,
because Hi Fi high FIDELI wi Fi why fidelity.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I never knew that that's what people thought it was.
Some people do.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
The core technology behind wi fi was invented by a
team of researchers at CSIRO in the nineteen nineties. The
breakthrough came about because are originally looking to detect tiny
radio signals from exploding black holes I'm reading here. They
developed a method to reduce radio signal interference, which later
became crucial for enabling high speed wireless data transmission and

(01:34):
that was the foundation of Wi Fi. So wi Fi
as we know it today has been built upon an
added to with international standards and was later commercialized worldwide,
but the Australian CSIRO patented technology was essential in making
it work reliably and in fact, the CSIRO has successfully
on major lawsuits against tech giants like Intel, Dell and

(01:54):
Microsoft for using their patented Wi Fi technology without a license.
This has earned Australia hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.
Where to go, ass, good on us, Good on us.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
There's a story.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
This just was posted up on x someone who's posted this.
So tell me why. My neighbors asked for the Wi
Fi password about ten days ago and I let them
have it.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
She's a single parent with like five kids.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I'm reading this, ass this wrote and she said the
baby had poured water in the router.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
That'll root it up. So their WiFi was down.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
They said, can me log into yourself?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
How that goes? Yeah, that'll root you router. You've got
a WiFi password, haven't you. I have no idea what
is it?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
But for a period of time.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's a saska and a cart in front of our house,
and we wondered if he was just sitting out the
front doing his work and using our WiFi.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, you got to get onto the password. You can
identify various Sometimes the neighbors will come up. You go, no,
that's not it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Ye yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And what does yours
say on your wife?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not going to tell you anyway, back to this person.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I get an email last night talking about someone added
an eighty five dollars screep streaming package to my service.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Ah, I checked the app. They've added fifteen devices to
my internet. It also the whole damn house running off
our shit. Okay, I know they mad.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I paused everything and changed the password. You cannot be
nice to people these days.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
So was she thinking.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Helping this lady out because the kid rooted the round?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And so she's saying, just for a day or so,
if you need to use Wi fi here, it is
just speak of them to stream dances with wolves one
hundred times.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
So in our house, our data usage, my wife and
I use an eighteenth of what the last remaining child
that lives in our house does. Dominic consumes so much
of our data and we're in this bundle so it
doesn't matter animal so we've got unlimited data with Telstra.
But I look at the telemetry of it, how much

(03:54):
Helen uses, how much I use?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
And then I look at Dom's I go, oh my god,
and that's what the kids do this.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
And then I look at all my other my neighbors
were their various WiFi is that they've got, and their
passwords and things like that, you know, like this, and
you've got to be careful what you put up that
you can't put like sexy fun beast, because that'll come
up as your WiFi fight.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
That must be Brendan yeh, sexy fun beast.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
And you've got to be careful with when you ask
your nighbor to use the Wi fi. You know, if
you you should ask them directly and not text them.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why not because wi fi auto correct to wife?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
So someone poured hot water on the wife?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah? Could someone? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
So you can say, hey, gaz, my wife is down,
Could I borrow yours?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right? Yeah? No worries mate. A couple of days, yeah, ge,
she was really quick. Just a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Until I get another man into figure it.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I got what I needed from your wife.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's something you're speaking from experience.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Or even worse, your wife's really slow.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I wanted something. I want something a bit faster. Your
wife was pixel Lady.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
She's streaming.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
You have been warned sitting for today. You come back
to them all for more. Tony Hanna Matters called the
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