performance question

[wlan]

Marc Cousin wrote:
> I am currently using the 12c driver, and i'm wondering if what i'm seeing is 
> normal :
> when transfering from another machine at full speed (about 550 kbytes/s), the 
> cpu load gets as high as 75% on my computer, which is an athlon 700...
> this number seems rather high to me, so i'm asking...
> 
> Cheers

No it is not normal :( the only way to get this cpu load could be to use 
  WEP and also some kind of encryption (scp) an even in this case it 
should not be bigger than 40%