Does WPA slow down wireless traffic?

[pookguy88]

I don't want to lose any speed by using WPA, will it slow down my wireless connection like WEP did?

 

[JackMDS]

How about trying it?:shocked:

It takes 10sec. to uncheck the WPA if you do not like it.

:sun:

 

[Merlyn3D]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
How about trying it?:shocked:

It takes 10sec. to uncheck the WPA if you do not like it.

:sun:

How about an answer if you got one? For me, I don't think I can set up WPA unless I want to reconfigure all my client machines. It's easier to just ask for other people's experiences.

 

[InlineFive]

It really depends on how fast your hardware is. For my 700Mhz PIII laptops going from WEP to WPA-AES took 1/3 of my connection speed away from wireless clients. But as they just surf the web this isn't a big deal.

That's why JackMDS said, "Try it!"

 

[pookguy88]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
How about trying it?:shocked:

It takes 10sec. to uncheck the WPA if you do not like it.

:sun:

How about I can't because my wireless card doesn't support it? :shocked:

Dude, YOU ASSumed incorrectly...

:sun:
:sun:

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: pookguy88

Originally posted by: JackMDS
How about trying it?:shocked:

It takes 10sec. to uncheck the WPA if you do not like it.

:sun:

How about I can't because my wireless card doesn't support it? :shocked:

Dude, YOU ASSumed incorrectly...

:sun:
:sun:

"I don't want to lose any speed by using WPA, will it slow down my wireless connection like WEP did?"

Thanks for giving the community plentiful information about your setup and what you planned to do with it. We throughly understood that your unspecified networking hardware did not support WPA. We also assume to the best of our knowledge for scanty posts like yours.

 

[imported_JFG]

Yes, there will be overhead. You will lose speed. I'm not sure how much in relation to WEP though

 

[pookguy88]

Originally posted by: JFG
Yes, there will be overhead. You will lose speed. I'm not sure how much in relation to WEP though

why couldn't i get a simple answer like this from the beginning?

 

[pookguy88]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

"I don't want to lose any speed by using WPA, will it slow down my wireless connection like WEP did?"

Thanks for giving the community plentiful information about your setup and what you planned to do with it. We throughly understood that your unspecified networking hardware did not support WPA. We also assume to the best of our knowledge for scanty posts like yours.

Does it really matter what my setup is??

Will WPA not lose speed on certain setups??

Enlighten me

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: pookguy88

Originally posted by: JFG
Yes, there will be overhead. You will lose speed. I'm not sure how much in relation to WEP though

why couldn't i get a simple answer like this from the beginning?

I did give you an answer based off of my network's performance. The effect on each network is different depending on how the hardware handles the information.

Originally posted by: pookguy88

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

"I don't want to lose any speed by using WPA, will it slow down my wireless connection like WEP did?"

Thanks for giving the community plentiful information about your setup and what you planned to do with it. We throughly understood that your unspecified networking hardware did not support WPA. We also assume to the best of our knowledge for scanty posts like yours.

Does it really matter what my setup is??

Will WPA not lose speed on certain setups??

Enlighten me

JackMDS suggested that you try it on your setup because performance does vary between network setups. We had no idea that your hardware did not support it. And your mocking response to his post didn't help at all.

And as I have stated many times above, WPA will make networks lose speed. It just depends on your setup as to how much speed will actually be lost. And what you use it for. The 33% speed loss was worth it for occasional .doc, .xls and web browsing. If you need as much bandwidth as you can get for something like huge .avi files you should probably go wired.

 

[pookguy88]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
JackMDS suggested that you try it on your setup because performance does vary between network setups. We had no idea that your hardware did not support it. And your mocking response to his post didn't help at all.

i wasn't asking how much it varies, the question was simple, does it, or does it not slow down traffic??

its a yes or no question

And how was I mocking??

 

[skyking]

all of the security measures have an overhead price.
For surfing, it will be unnoticed.
For file transfers on the lan, it will be noticed.
I would say 25% overhead is not a bad guesstimate average, but like others have said, it varies. I do not use wireless to make large transfers over the LAN, myself. The performance hit is therefore unnoticed.