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CPU utilization with WPA/WEP
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:20 pm
by moly
I use Atheros CM9 and if I activate encryption my CPU usage goes from 25% to 50% with the same load on Wireles card. On atheros page is writen - " Standard (AES), Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Wired
Equivalent Privacy (WEP) without performance degradation ". It is normal? I use Mikrotik 2.9.7 on normal PC.
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:27 pm
by NZLamb
I use WPA/AES on a P2P link with SR5s (Atheros) in RouterBOARD 532s. Enabling WPA added about 20% load on the CPU over leaving it unencrypted under heavy load.
What hardware are you running RouterOS on?
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:37 am
by gerd
I use WPA PSK and with no load my CPU is about 4% and with 400kByte load on wireless it encrease to 40-50%..
HW RB532A...@260Mhz
Ciao Gerd
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:00 am
by NZLamb
Oops!
I just performed a quick test on my rig, the CPU usage does go up a bit (I have edited my first post accordingly) but the actual data throughput remains the same as before.
I assume this is what Atheros meant in their documentation as throughput is the part that really counts to the end user.
