Help please... I'm stuck right now enabling WPA PSK

I have enabled this on my DLink DI-624. Now it says in order to connect, I need to enable it on the adapters on both of our notebooks. I can not figure out how to do that. When I look at Intel 2200 in device manager, I can find no place to enable WPA. I called DLink tech support, but they can't help with anything other than the router.

If I am understanding this correctly, I need to do this for both computers and enter the same key on each computer's network card as on the router?

I guess this is why almost all home wireless networks are unsecured. It is just so darn complicated and frustrating trying to do it!

 

Well, I give up on WPA! Nothing but trouble after I finally got it set up. I think it might be my combination of the DLink DI624 and the 2200B/G card. It would be connected for a while and then crash and say it could not find a network, etc. etc. etc.

So for now I have enabled WEP with MAC Address filtering and renamed the SSID. At least that is better than completely unsecured as before!

I live in a rural area back far enough from the road where it's not likely to be a problem. If I moved to a more populated area, I would be REALLY annoyed at not being able to get it to work.

As I said in my first post, I now understand why most people do not try to secure their home networks. Every time I travel with my notebook and am staying with someone in a typical residential neighborhood, I view what is available. I almost always find at least one and sometimes more unsecured networks. I don't think I have ever found a secured network in a residential area. I have seen them in business areas, however.

 

If you are wanting to do the WPA-PSK thing, here is the easiest way to do. Basically all DLink is telling you is to make sure that your wireless profile on your computer is set for WPA-PSK, and not WEP.

In Intel ProSet, you'll see two big boxes. In the lower box, you see the available wireless networks. Double Click on your network. This will bring up a box to create your profile. The first blank is just a name for your profile (can be anything you choose). The second blank is for the SSID. Then you click Next, and it will ask for your password. Then click Next and OK.

If your SSID and password match your router, it will connect. If you do it the way I described, then you don't have to worry about making sure it is WPA-PSK. The reason is that Intel detects that automatically.

I hope this helps. If you want to try the steps above, just make sure that you change your DLink settings back to WPA-PSK.

SG

 

I actually did get that figured out yesterday and all set up. But the connection was not stable. For some reason, it would periodically drop and not be able to reconnect. Not able to find the network. Then in available networks, there were no networks available. I just did not have the time to stick with it and try to track down what was happening. So I just went to WEP and MAC addressing which is working fine. Not as secure, I know, but probably fine for where I live now and at least better than nothing.

I'll do a search on MAC addressing here when I have time as I am wondering why this in and of itself is not enough. If you tell your network that only certain addresses can connect, how could the average person looking for an open network break that?

I actually have another thread with some questions about security on public networks. I really can't find the best answers for that and am not getting answers in that thread. If anyone can help, the link is below. Basically just want to do all I can to safeguard my notebook when I use it in a library, college campus, cafe etc.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=1308545#post1308545

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I setup my DI-624 and 2200BG with the WPA2-(AES-CCMP). It works great. On my router, I set it to WPA2-Auto, Cipher Type = AES, & PSK / EAP = PSK. On my notebook, the wireless profile security settings is set to WPA2-Personal(AES-CCMP).
I am not sure what is the different between WPA and WPA2 but the above settings works well for me. Hope this is helpful.