I've seen the performance with and without, and in
my environment, the encryption overhead is really,
really high. Without encryption, the speed is just
slightly less than an wired connection. With
encryption, the speed is about HALF of the
encryption speed. It's a real bottleneck ....
quote:This is just
my opinion, so take it for what it's worth!
I use an s4 with a ethernet connected PC and
a WPC11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I'm running XP
pro and use ZoneAlarmPro. With the S4, I do
not use WEP, I just changed the number of users
from the default of 50, to 2. So when I
have both the PC and Laptop running, no one else
can 'share' my WAP. From what I understand, WEP
slows down the transfer rate to the WAP, so
unless I really have nasty security problems, I'm
just not going to use WEP. If your set up in
your home neighborhood, chances of a
hacker/cracker/unauthorized user getting into your system
is quite slim as the 'big boys' don't bother
with us 'little boys'. I dont think you should
have a problem with your Netgear cards. Did you
change the SSID on your router?
