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<blockquote data-quote="Chad Young" data-source="post: 88458" data-attributes="member: 699">Re: Wireless routersCheap WAPs may lose some throughput with the processing overhead of the tighter encryption, but any decent unit should be able to handle this easily.&nbsp; I would characterize this concern as &#039;not a factor.&#039;An astute observation and essentially correct.&nbsp; The down side is that if you need to connect a new device to your wireless network and happen to have forgotten your SSID or key, or the iPad that got swiped from the van is the only device you configured to connect, you get to do some gymnastics to get connected to your WAP.&nbsp; IMnHO, not worth the headache, but hiding the SSID will help stave off casual attempts at connecting to your network.I agree completely.&nbsp; Also, don&#039;t discount the fact that anyone with rudimentary electronics knowledge can knock together a device that can make any devices in these spectra quite useless quite easily.&nbsp; I can neither confirm nor deny that the guts from an old microwave can be easily reconfigured to make every wi-fi device for a few hundred yards useless, at least in the 2.4GHz spectrum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chad Young, post: 88458, member: 699"] Re: Wireless routers Cheap WAPs may lose some throughput with the processing overhead of the tighter encryption, but any decent unit should be able to handle this easily. I would characterize this concern as 'not a factor.' An astute observation and essentially correct. The down side is that if you need to connect a new device to your wireless network and happen to have forgotten your SSID or key, or the iPad that got swiped from the van is the only device you configured to connect, you get to do some gymnastics to get connected to your WAP. IMnHO, not worth the headache, but hiding the SSID will help stave off casual attempts at connecting to your network. I agree completely. Also, don't discount the fact that anyone with rudimentary electronics knowledge can knock together a device that can make any devices in these spectra quite useless quite easily. I can neither confirm nor deny that the guts from an old microwave can be easily reconfigured to make every wi-fi device for a few hundred yards useless, at least in the 2.4GHz spectrum. [/QUOTE]

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