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While writing a column for the Expert Zone and lamenting over the lack of WPA2–Personal (PSK) upgrades for existing hardware, I sleuthed some info that I’m going to share in this blog prior to publishing in my column.

Disclaimer (unless you live in the UK or Canada for the router piece): Do all of this at your own risk. You know, professional driver on a closed course. Results may vary.

First, if you own D-Link DWL-G650 Rev B or C cards, DWL-AG660 or the soon to be released DWL-G680, go to ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Wireless/dwlg520_revB/Drivers/ and get dwlg520_revB3_drivers_318.zip. Yeah, I know it says 520. Extract it to your hard drive and run the setup program. If prompted do NOT disable WZC. Next, insert your card/select update driver, and use the have disk option to manually select the driver to install. Point at the Drivers directory where you extracted the zip file. If prompted that it is not for your hardware, etc. etc. install it anyway. Take the leap of faith.

If you have a D-Link 624 router, hardware Rev Cx, go to the D-Link UK ftp site ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/di_broadband_gateways/DI-624_rev_cx/ and grab di-624_rev_cx_fw_v2.53.zip. Update your router’s firmware. The firmware has all the US allowed channels and no non allowed channels. If you live in Canada, try http://support.dlink.ca/ProductView.asp?ProdID=219

D-Links Gamer Lounge DGL-4300 router now supports WPA2. Stay tuned for a Windows XP update (note: now available but not for XP x64) that enables this on the client side. Looks like most cards that support AES should support this. Even the Microsoft MN-720 (you’ll need to use someone else’s Broadcom based driver to get this to work since MS isn’t supplying updates)! the MN-700 Microsoft Base Station will NOT be upgradeable.

D-Link’s Gamer Lounge DGL-4300 with Firmware 1.4

WPA2 capable network on Windows XP Client

I have to say that preparing and converting Recorded TV from MCE (convert to mpeg4) content to copy to a memory stick duo takes far less time than transcoding DVR-MS to WMV.

1. need to have the sonic encoders installed

2. Use DVR-Edit from the green button. Trim DVR-MS file and kill commercials

3. Get Power Director 4 Trial. Load edited file (have to do it twice because the first time it complains). Convert to mp2 (takes 4 minutes!!!!!!!!!)

4. go here and do what they document

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-11721-1725-x-x-x

(takes 10 minutes for one hour show)

So, it took an hour to transcode last nights season finale of Battlestar Galactica to WMV to load on my Creative Zen PMC and 16 minutes total to get onto my Sony PSP (and I was slow because it was the first time I’ve tried this)