ProCurve Wireless Access Point 10A/G

ProCurve is an easy to install wireless access point for SMBs. It supports

IEEE802.11a, b, and g clients simultaneously with its dual IEEE802.11a and b/g

radio. It also has PoE (Power over Ethernet) formax deployment flexibility.

ProCurve can support up to 64clients simultaneously with elaborate security

features likeWPA2, RADUS-based MAC authentication, and MAC addresslockout.

To test the performance we connected it with IEEE802.11g client and used 1000

bytes of payload. WithTCP protocol the throughput was 17 Mbps andwith UDP it was

17 Mbps. The response time forTCP was1 ms, and for UDP it was 2 ms,which is

average. The throughput achieved by ProCurve is lesswhen compared to that of

Micronet Wirless Router-SP918GK(20 Mbps in TCP and 16 Mbps in UDP, reviewed Jan

'08).

Further, we created isolated network with one computer con-nected via

Ethernet to access point and other laptop (802.11g)connected wirelessly. Then we

used 50 MB of data that includedmultimedia files and transferred that data from

one computer toother, which took about 55 sec, while Micronet Router took less

time(48 sec) for the same task.

BOTTOMLINE: Slightly overpriced, but owing to

its features (supporting 8 SSIDs, 64 clients) this can be considered for SMBs