consumer grade routers only have 20- to 30-MHz processors. so definitely running encryption will slow things down.
your typical Linux box has a lot of CPU power though. the overhead of encryption is tiny. but there still is an overhead, which will impose perhaps a 10% to 20% bandwidth penalty. On 6/12/07, [C]hicken [G] od <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't running another protocol within SSH slow down the connection a > notch? I ain't no networking guru but from my tech support days whenever my > users run encryption on consumer grade routers they complain about slow > connections. I usually explain to them that it's because encrypting your > connection on wireless is a trade off between security and speed. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
