[svlug] Advice wanted regarding setting up WiFi

J. Paul Reed preed at sigkill.com
Wed Mar 31 18:13:14 PST 2004


On 31 Mar 2004 at 17:55:41, szii at sziisoft.com arranged the bits on my disk to say:

> What kind of performance hit are you seeing with a 2k key, though?  For
> general use, like web browsing where each separate request/response has
> to be encrypted/decrypted, how much slowdown are you seeing?

Nothing noticable on my PPro 180.

I suppose if your router is a 486 DX-100, you'd notice it, but... 

WEP isn't free either, and is (as I've said) much crappier.

Later,
Paul
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