Last week I changed the encryption on the wireless network to WPA from WEP. I did this after reading how much more secure WPA is. Never had a security problem with WEP but figured what could it hurt. Since doing that there has been a noticeable slowdown in the speed of browsing. Pages load slower and just feels sluggish. When coming out of standby it takes a few seconds to connect to the network. The little arrow on the wireless icon in the system tray starts moving side to side indicting it is looking for a signal to connect to. It always connects but it takes longer than it did on WEP. That little arrow never appeared when using WEP. The connection was almost instant. I switched back to WEP and things are back to normal for me. Anybody notice a performance difference between WEP and WPA?
I didn't ever notice any. But wep is an open book.
I didn't ever notice any. But wep is an open book.
Yeah that's why I changed. I will have to look into this might be something else. Just wanted to see if anybody else experienced a performance drop with WPA. Thanks.
Using WPA2 here and noticed no problems.
I dont even bother with either of them as i have set up the router to only allow computers that I tell it to using the Wireless Station Access List. All you have to do is input the MAC address and your away.
I did what AnGrA did.. only allowed one mac address (mine) access to the network
when you do that, virtually no one can connect to the network except you..
but others can capture and read your packets
I don't have wireless, but when I noticed my gf's network only had WEP, I quickly changed it to WPA and experienced no difference in speed.
but others can capture and read your packets
talldog, i'm pretty sure that can always happen.. no matter what security you have
unless you're running IPTables or something
Okay what is the likely hood of someone coming to my village just to capture and read my packets or someone who lives around me doing that. I know for a fact that the people who live around me don't know enough about computers to do that and therefore I am not worried in the slightest. Actually now that I think about it I do still have WEP enabled but WEP is supposed to be easily cracked or whatever but like I said I do not see that happening to me.
im just speaking in general.
talldog, i'm pretty sure that can always happen.. no matter what security you haveunless you're running IPTables or something
But with encryption, if they tried to view the packets they would be looking at randomness.
Okay what is the likely hood of someone coming to my village just to capture and read my packets or someone who lives around me doing that. I know for a fact that the people who live around me don't know enough about computers to do that and therefore I am not worried in the slightest. Actually now that I think about it I do still have WEP enabled but WEP is supposed to be easily cracked or whatever but like I said I do not see that happening to me.
That is basically the same thing as security by obscurity.
im just speaking in general.
Yeah I know you were just speaking in general Talldog9
That is basically the same thing as security by obscurity.
lol I wouldn't say that i was using secrecy to provide security and I do know that there maybe flaws in my approach but I just don't think that i am likely to be hacked especially if you don't broadcast your SSID. Don't get me wrong i know that i could be but i just don't see anyone in my village doing that or someone coming into the village to do that and I would use a better security system if it was in a business environment but since I am not I will stick to how I have set things up
^^anybody who want's to eavesdrop on my wifi is more than welcome. They will be very bored...
lol yes same here