I recently received an Eye-Fi wireless SD card for my digital camera (which I will talk about in another post soon) which sends pictures wirelessly to your computer over your wireless network, among other things. The problem is that it only supports networks with WPA or WPA2 encryption, but my network (a D-Link DI-524+) is using WAP. No problem, I decided I would just change my network's security to WPA. So I updated the routers firmware and set the new encryption type. Then the network started cutting out every five minutes for a few minutes at a time. Also, my TiVo's network card doesn't support WPA. Luckily my neighbor had a spare fancy TiVo wireless adapter that *did* support WPA, so he let me borrow it the next day, so that problem was solved. But the network kept dropping out. Still. I did everything I could think of: I changed the channel, I tried different passwords, I changed the router's auto-updating time service, nothing worked. I came across a forum post that said you could install some new firmware on your router that made your DI-524 think it was a DI-624. I was out of ideas and getting frustrated so I tried it. Others had luck with this (other than some overheating) so I wasn't super worried. I flashed the firmware and lo and behold, it thought it was a DI-624. Also, lo and behold, it was still cutting out every five minutes. To make a long story even longer, I ended up giving up and buying a new D-Link DIR-628 which is pretty sweet, it supports 802.11n, g, and b running on a dual band (so my N devices won't be downgraded to a G network just because there are other G devices on it) and it's pretty fast overall. If you have made it to the bottom of this incredible boring post, I commend you and as a token of my appreciation for how bored you must have been to make it here, I present you now with this timeless and classic joke: A pirate walks into a bar with a sailor's wheel sticking out of his pants. The bartender says, "Why do you have a sailor's wheel sticking out of your pants?" and the pirate replies, "Yarr, it's drivin' me nuts!" p.s., The problem all along was (most likely) that I upgraded my firmware in the first place to its most current version which apparently is completely unstable. "Yea all that over at the Eagle Hotel? Huh, it's beyond everything." (If no one gets this is a day, I'll add another quote, so guess fast)
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