Personal WEP Access Point for Nintendo DS?

[Proteusza]

Hi guys,

I want to enable my Nintendo DS to connect to the internet, but it only supports WEP encryption. My household has a WPA router running, so I dont think its fair to compromise the security of the whole house to let my DS get online.

Anyway, I did buy a cheap USB adapter that can function as an access point, but that means I need to reboot into XP every time I want to use it (I use Vista). Its also not quite stable, being a very cheap product with lousy software its very temperamental and stops working at a moments notice.

So, I thought the best solution might be to buy my own wireless router, and have it run WEP encryption (and maybe MAC filtering if thats compatible with the DS). The thing is, I'm not sure how I would connect this second router to our primary one. My PC has 1 PCI wireless adapter, 1 USB wireless adapter (the waste of money as mentioned above) and 2 ethernet adapters (I use one to connect to our router).

Any ideas? Could I connect the router to my PC using the second ethernet point, and then bridge my ethernet adapters? Would that work? Could I connect the routers together directly? The router I'm thinking of buying is the Linksys WRT54GL, and the router we have is a basic Sky router. It has 4 ethernet points, dont know much else about it.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[JackMDS]

If a network device is only capable to WEp there is nothing you can do about it.

However you can buy an inexpensive Wireless Router and together with your current Router form a segregated Network.

The new Router goes first to the Internet, with the game box one it and Wireless configured to WEP.

Second Wireless Router carries Wireless Network with WPA2 and your wired computers.

Here how, http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html

 

[zerogear]

You can buy another cheap router and use it as WEP, or you can get a DD-WRT compatible router, and enable a virtual interface that supports WEP. So that way you have WPA and WEP off of the same router.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: zerogear
You can buy another cheap router and use it as WEP, or you can get a DD-WRT compatible router, and enable a virtual interface that supports WEP. So that way you have WPA and WEP off of the same router.

I'm not sure you can run multiple encryption types across virtual interfaces - though I was just thinking the same thing. I know for a fact that the repeater modes don't allow it in DDWRT.

 

[cpals]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: zerogear
You can buy another cheap router and use it as WEP, or you can get a DD-WRT compatible router, and enable a virtual interface that supports WEP. So that way you have WPA and WEP off of the same router.

I'm not sure you can run multiple encryption types across virtual interfaces - though I was just thinking the same thing. I know for a fact that the repeater modes don't allow it in DDWRT.

Yep, you can - at least in v24 of DDWRT. I couldn't find the exact FAQ on their website I used, but I'm sure some browsing could find it. I created a virtual wlan because my Wii kept bombing out on my WPA2 settings so I lowered it down to WEP and also made that virtual wlan only have access to the internet.

So far so good!

Here's a couple of my bookmarks that I grabbed information from:

http://dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=28408
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/ind..._Wireless_and_Internet