[SOCALWUG] Wireless encryption

[The Captain]

I thought I knew quite a bit about encryption, apparently wrong.

I always run with 64-bit encryption, everything perfect, except 1 site. Get 
excellent signal strength, excellent down/uploads with dslreports.

Turns out this 1 site (smithbarney.com) that is extremely slow, or, most of 
the time, doesn't even come up, uses SSL, 128-bit https encryption at the 
browser level.

As an experiment, I temporally turned encryption off both at the router & at 
the client. Now this site runs very fast, as it should. Since I want to run 
w/encryption, I tried 128-bit wireless encryption. Has same problem as 
64-bit encryption. Switched back to no encryption, 64-bit several times. 
Quite consistent, this 1 secure site only runs well with no wireless 
encryption.

I've tried other https sites (while wireless encryption was 64-bit), run 
fine. Only problem I see is with smithbarney site.

My understanding is the wireless encryption runs just above the physical 
layer. And that it totally unrelated to the browser 128-bit encryption, I 
would guess at the application layer.

I am also running with MAC address filtering, feel that is not part of the 
equation.

I went 1 step further & dialed up to the Internet with this 1 problem 
machine. Ran the troubled site just fine, slower, but in the range of 
dialup.

Is my understanding correct? Can anyone think of why this 1 site has a 
problem? Can anyone think of something I can try to diagnose this, I really 
want to run with encryption on?

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Norm Perron

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