Jake: TKIP has been broken. A long time ago.
This article http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2010/06/say_goodbye_to_wep_and_tkip.html talks of it being removed from the WiFi certification,the article was from 2010. We run SSID's with spaces, and have been doing it for years. /daniel/ daniel westacott Networking and Telecommunications University of Minnesota. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Barros, Jacob <jkbar...@grace.edu> wrote: > I feel silly asking this question but value your opinions. We recently had > some authentication errors that caused me to open a support case. The > engineer I was working with eluded to the fact that having a space in my > SSID name could be contributing to the problem though not the root. He also > inferred that using TKIP instead of AES would cut processing requirements on > the controller and therefore grant better performance. I have not been able > to confirm his opinions from those I have asked (including other engineers > from the same company) nor in print. > > We are using a single SSID for most of our campus, 'Grace WiFi' WPA2-PSK > AES. Theoretically, should I get better performance (or less overhead) from > 'Grace-WiFi' WPA2-PSK TKIP? > > Leaving the vendor/company out of this conversation, will you please comment > on whether or not these changes will make a difference? I would love to > either substantiate or debunk this theory. > > > > Jake Barros | Network Administrator | Office of Information Technology > Grace College and Seminary | Winona Lake, IN | 574.372.5100 x6178 > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
