Wireless Speed
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Adding a password slows a wireless connection by the teeny-tiniest amount that you would NEVER notice (because the security encapsulation adds a few bits to the beginning of the packet header). A range of other issues can affect wireless speed, including:
signal reflection/refraction
electrical interference
saturation of the network
backwards compatability issues (if an 802.11b and 802.11g device are connected to an 802.11g router, most of the time both devices will only run at 802.11b speeds)What some people forget is that wireless isn't fully duplex, so 802.11g, rated at 54mbps only runs at half that speed in a perfect environment. Hop through two wireless routers to your gateway, and it's a quarter of the speed etc etc.
My advice is to remove all settings from the wireless part of your router, strip it back to no authentication whatsoever, then keep adding layers of security, while testing that it still works properly. If it runs like crap with no security settings at all, you have another problem.
- PS. WEP is useless. Use WPA2 with TKIP or AES, it doesn't really matter.BuddhaHat