>From: Marc Sira <toh at victoria.tc.ca> >Message-Id: <200301221748.h0MHmqN6004174 at vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> >Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Orinoco Cards >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:48:52 -0800 (PST) > >> Depends on where/how you live. Encryption slows things down on a dialup >> like mine. Making closed networks is good enough for me. No trouble so >> far... > >Dialup is slow enough that it's already the bottleneck...It might slow down a >slowish computer to use WEP, though (like the 2400). Might? I just said that it did. And, using WEP lowers the wireless connection's signal strength, at least according to monitoring software. Why should that be? Bob F