From: Robert Currey (R.P.Currey_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Date: 29/05/03 09:13
Simon wrote
> sponsorship of devices; however I would hate for us to go down the same
> route as the broader net and have corporate\advertising 'pop-ups' every
> time someone accesses a node. This may be a simple and misleading
interpretation of Robs suggestion.
I agree on the sentiment of not doing pop ups and the like. In a
shameful former life I was involved with developing such things -
they are a very hard sell, generate confusion and return very little
cash.
But as for naming the nodes: each node has to have a network id eg.
my ESSID is 15waterside. This id gets transmitted over wireless. This
gives a client a choice of which network (node) to join. My Mac OSX
simply connects to what it finds first and displays the ESSID, a pull
down menu is shown with alternative networks. ALso we need to
advertise the geography of our networks in maps. My suggestion was to
create this ESSID name as a reward for sponsorship.
Robert
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School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Leeds
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