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Originally Posted by Clyde1820

Since 2015, according to Shimano. Unless they've misused the term for a decade. Of course it requires a passkey. But the way wireless gets hacked, these days, who can say when the impact will hit home at the derailleur level. The "dope" opportunity, one might say, for enterprising hackers who'd like to put a thumb on the scale of competitions (at least those where electronic shifting's tolerated).

https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/infor...tionality.html
https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/e-tube/project.html

Actually, in the quoted links Shimano seems to have been very careful to be technically correct. I see no mention of "Wi-Fi" in either article (caveat: my cookies preferences don't let me see everything on the second link, so I can't be positive about that in the second article). Instead, Shimano's been very careful to refer to their wireless Di2 connectivity as "wireless" or "Bluetooth", or their "proprietary private ANT wireless protocol".

As noted above by myself and others: Wi-Fi is a subset of wireless communications. And it appears Shimano has not used the Wi-Fi 802.11x subset as an integral part of their wireless Di2 connectivity.

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