On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> 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. I 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. I saw this behavior before using the
>> WPA2 as well.
>>
>> Do these newer models have underpowered CPU's? Or do I have a bad unit?
>>
>> 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. However I do get a few
>> request timeouts.
>>
>>
>
> WPA in general introduces a fair amount of overhead. LinkSys would probably
> 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 RAM
> 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
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