"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > consumer grade routers only have 20- to 30-MHz processors. so > definitely running encryption will slow things down. > > your typical Linux box has a lot of CPU power though. the overhead of > encryption is tiny. but there still is an overhead, which will impose > perhaps a 10% to 20% bandwidth penalty.
To add to that: I haven't really seen any highly significant bandwidth penalty when I tunnel my connection through SSH, although admittedly, I sometimes get very high latencies, especially when my connection is swamped (for example, when I have several browser windows/tabs open and active, and the tunnel is also being used). YMMV, I guess. -- JM Ibanez Software Architect Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
