whizkid3
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join:2002-02-21
Queens, NY
 ·Earthlink Cable Mo..
| reply to TexasGuy
Re: Slow speed, what is wrong?
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Can my low speed be due to WEP 128bit encoding/decoding?
Absolutely. WEP efforts have been known to tax the resources of many routers, lowering their throughput. Setting WEP to 40 bit encoding should pick things up a bit, and be secure enough for your purposes.
Do you really need WEP? If you have only a few wireless clients, and don't mind eavesdroppers being able to only 'see' your traffic, than you can set up MAC address access lists, and disable WEP. You still risk the chance of an 'ARP poisoning' man-in-the-middle type of attack, though. However, this takes a very sophisticated hacker.
If you need WEP, then go with 40 bit. Check your speed and see the improvement.
Also, set you system to accept a minimum 5.5mbps on the wireless. This will still give you the best possible connection to the internet (faster than your 2M/350k even with the overhead). This will probably not improve the slow throughput that WEP is giving you though. |
