We just added a WAP54G access point onto our linksys router. Everything is setup and the wireless systems are online and on the network but when I enable the WEP encryption it slows the internal file transfers to a crawl.
My systems has a main server and all the computers access a database on the main server through a mapped drive. The computers that are wireless take forever to pull up information out of the database and run the GUI program. To pull up the simpliest report takes about 5-10 minutes. On a wired computer it takes about 1 second.
If I remove the WEP encryption the file / data transfers are fine.
There are other security modes such as WPA Radius, WPA pre-Shared key, and Radius. Should I try to use one of those features to increase the speed?
My mode is mixed and SSID broadcast is enabled.
Thanks