Vince writes
Posted by matt at July 22, 2002 11:16 PM
"I've put up WEP signs for the wireless nodes around the building,
the user base is building up slowly. I wanted to make two points:I agree that showing the bandwidth label is not much use.
A channel label might be of use, if there are restrictions on
which channel can be used.Perhaps this has come up already, but I didn't see it in the
list of posts I scanned. It's well known that WEP is not strong
enough, and there is work going on to create an open 128-bit
encryption standard for wireless. I think people will soon come
to expect strong encryption in certain settings, e.g. private
conference centres.
So I'd encourage thinking about the choice of symbology to
accomodate new protocols. I think the W in the circle is a good
way to go; hopefully the new protocols' acronyms will have
obvious single-letter contractions."