Enabling WEP or WPA security on your network may reduce the performance of your network, especially if 128 bit encryption is employed. However, in all but the most exreme cases, the penalty is negligible, and won't be noticeable.
Enabling WEP usually results in the card having to do the encryption and this means slowdown. Some have said there is a huge hit if the encryption takes place with software, and maybe no noticeable hit if the encryption takes place with hardware (Cisco?).
Not only do many other gateways leave WEP off by default, some manufacturers go out of their way to stress that WEP is not required and could slow down network performance. But according to Microsoft, the performance hit is marginal--about 0.5Mbps with 64-bit encryption and only slightly more with 128-bit.
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last modified: 2005-01-15 13:57:13 |
