Today I got to work on a new brand of Router currently being distributed to Verizon High Speed Internet (HSI) customers: the ActionTec modem & DSL Router GT704-WG (presumably for “Wireless-G”).
It had a nice browser interface, but a very limited implementation of WPA, in that it only allowed alpha and numeric characters for key-entry. This goes against the industry standard, which is to allow additional characters (specifically special characters) to be used in key generation. If the intention is to secure the connection between the client and the access point, then why reduce the effectiveness of that security by limiting the character-set the key is based on? Sigh…