Wi-Fi Wep Point-to-Point Links

The importance of wireless communications has been growing. Performance is a crucial issue, resulting in more reliable and efficient communications. Security is equally important. Laboratory measurements are made about several performance aspects of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11a, b, g) WEP point-to-point links. A contribution is given to performance evaluation of this technology, using two types of access points from Enterasys Networks (RBT-4102 and RBTR2). 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. Comparisons are made to corresponding results obtained for open links. Conclusions are drawn about the comparative performance of the links.