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Old 26-07-2007, 00:07   #5
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Re: Securing wireless

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Originally Posted by danielf View Post
How much throughput do you want (and what do you want if for)? Wireless (@ 54 Mb/s ideally) is still considerable faster than your internet connection, so disabling WEP/WPA won't speed up your browsing/downloads. If you're interested in moving large files over your network swiftly you would gain much more by ditching wireless altogether and going with old-fashioned Cat-5.
Due to the added data parsed with encryption if your network connection is 20mb EVEN if you have 54mbps wireless you WILL lose capacity anywhere between 1-3mbps

Cisco have a paper on it somewhere, I'll dig it up, i was reading up on it for some stuff at work
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