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Title: DWA-160 AES
Post by: dloose on January 19, 2009, 10:05:12 AM

Does anyone know if the DWA-160 does the WPA2 AES encryption in hardware? I seem to be losing a fair amount of bandwidth using g to a Fujitsu laptop with an Atheros G/SuperG wireless NIC which I believe does AES in software. I'm thinking about getting a DWA-160 to improve on this.

Title: Re: DWA-160 AES
Post by: arod on January 19, 2009, 11:01:33 AM

Yes it does support WPA2/AES.

Title: Re: DWA-160 AES
Post by: dloose on January 19, 2009, 11:12:27 AM

I know AES is supported, but is the encryption accomplished in HARDWARE?

Title: Re: DWA-160 AES
Post by: Lycan on January 19, 2009, 12:22:46 PM

An adapter that size i doubt if the encryption is handled on board. In fact I'd be surprised if any of our devices have any type of offloading like that. I't makes it more difficult to update.

Title: Re: DWA-160 AES
Post by: lotacus on February 25, 2009, 10:57:44 PM

Correct. If it did hardware encryption, I would assume there would be an offload option in the driver options. In any event, the impact is marginal since a large portion of computers today are under utilized, meaning the cpu cycles are just sitting idle.