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Question: Does wireless encryption slowdown the wireless speed?

Yes! Wireless encryption, such as WEP, WPA or WPA2 will use some time and resources to encrypt and decrypt the wireless packets.

However the slowdown is not significant and it’s strongly recommended you enable encryption to secure your wireless network. Those encrypted packets are not viewable even they are sniffed or captured unless the encryption is cracked.