From: "Sam Lewis" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2292183 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:52:52 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1NuZRS-0003e0-R4 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:52:52 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f226.google.com ([209.85.218.226]:52932) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuZRH-0006sk-0j for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:52:39 -0400 Received: by bwz26 with SMTP id 26so2450104bwz.7 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:52:37 -0700 (PDT) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.4BAA97B7.0100,ss=1,fgs=0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.23.6 with SMTP id p6mr338361bkb.67.1269471157046; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:52:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [71.42.191.58] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:52:36 -0500 Message-ID: <438498021003241552r56bb39a4uc847139a78ee4cd7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] WRT54G To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > Hi, Sam... > > On 03/24/10 05:59 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote : >> >> I too have a WRT54G and have no problems with it, as far as I know. >> However I bought a WRT54GS2 last year and used it for about 6 months >> with no issues. =A0I had turned the WiFi off altogether since I only >> needed the wired portion. >> >> I have since loaned it to a friend and set it up for them with WPA2 >> and have noticed when doing something intense like printing across the >> WiFi to an HP DeskJet or running DNS Benchmark pings to the ISP's >> gateway can take 2 to 4 seconds. =A0I saw this behavior before using the >> WPA2 as well. >> >> Do these newer models have underpowered CPU's? =A0Or do I have a bad uni= t? >> >> I have the same ISP and doing the same test on my WRT54G my max ping >> time is 28ms vs. 3800ms on the other router. =A0However I do get a few >> request timeouts. >> >> > > WPA in general introduces a fair amount of overhead. LinkSys would probab= ly > tell you that there is nothing abnormal, although the rest of us would > consider it most annoying. You should probably test when wired and then > compare those stats to the wireless performance to see if the issue is > isolated to the Wi-Fi or is system-wide. I get the same results on the Wired PC vs. the Wireless one. Also the same when I had it open with no security. > > Depending upon the generation of WRT54G you have, you likely have more RA= M > but less CPU power than in the GS2 model. > > Wikipedia actually has a pretty decent rundown of specs (memory & CPU) of > the various WRT54G models: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series I'll check Wikipedia on the specs. Thanks, Sam