I have 4 PCs on my home network; two are hard-wired to my DI-604 router and two connect through a D-Link access point. I doubt that any of my neighbors have wireless connections (some don't even have a PC!), so up to this point I haven't been too worried about encryption. However, I do think it's a good idea, so I decided to set up 128-bit WEP on my AP, at least to test it. The encryption setup works, but I noticed that using it really cut down my network/Internet connect time to a crawl. I wondered if the same thing would happen using 64-bit encription ... same problem. Does encrypting the wireless signal always result in such a noticeable lag time? When I disabled WEP in the AP, my connect times were restored to their normal fast speed (we have cable with d/l speeds of up to 5 MBPS). Actually, I'd really rather use WPA since it's more secure. I'm just curious if the dramatic slow-down using encryption is normal.

Try TCPOptimizer.exe www.speedguide.com broadand tools.

Sure, WEP takes a ton of overhead on top of the normal wireless overhead, not to mention other devices that can impact wireless transmission. Everything from a car to a plane, TV to wireless phone can affect your wireless connection. You are always better off with wires unless you have no other choice. Seems odd they sell wireless as a simple solution.

>> You are always better off with wires unless you have no other choice. Seems odd they sell wireless as a simple solution << I agree with that. Wireless is touted as a technological advance on a wired network. It isn't. Its a solution to a particular problem and that problem is portability. If portability isn't an issue then wireless is not required. It slower, less reliable and less secure. Hardly and advancement. Stuart

I would suspect a dlink or wireless nic problem . I have a netgear setup and have played with this stuff and found it to make very little difference whether you had WEP enable or not and this is with mac filtering on also . As another person said try fooling around with your mtu settings .

Thanks, I'll try that. All I know is that once I disabled WEP, my speeds jumped right back up again on both my PCs with wireless connections.