Performance Measurements of Laboratory IEEE 802 . 11 b , g WEP Point - to - Point Links

The importance of wireless communications has been growing. Performance is a most relevant issue, resulting in more reliable and efficient communications. Security is crucially important. Laboratory measurements are made about several performance aspects of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b, g) WEP point-to-point links. A contribution is given to performance evaluation of this technology under WEP encryption, using WRT54GL wireless routers from Linksys. Detailed results are presented and discussed, namely at OSI levels 4 and 7, from TCP, UDP and FTP experiments: TCP throughput, jitter, percentage datagram loss and FTP transfer rate data.