Have any of you seen the size of the DS? IT HAS A WIRELESS CARD THAT IS ONLY 802.11b COMPATIBLE WHICH SHOULD TELL YOU THAT ‘WPA2′ ‘WPA1 AES’ ARE OUT OF THE QUESTION. They simply could not put a better wireless card in without making it (and the price) bigger and so they decided not to. They probably could have made it support WPA1 TKIP, but this is still hackable (although not as easily as WEP) and, most importantly, WOULD HAVE CAUSED MASS CONFUSION SINCE THE DS COULD NOT CONNECT TO THOSE WPA1 NETWORKS THAT USE ‘AES’ - MEANING THAT 1000s OF CONSUMERS WOULD BE COMPLAINING ON TECH SUPPORT FORUMS SUCH AS THIS.

The DS is not powerful enough to support WPA - it’s upsetting, but that’s life - you are asking Nintendo to 1) Do the impossible 2) If you only want TKIP - upset many more of their customers.

THE ONLY SOLUTION–

Set up 1 router as the internet bridge, then use 2 other routers for devices (1 for the DSs and one for the computers). Make sure they are on different subnets so that you don’t have NAT conflicts (i.e. make one router 192.168.1.1, another 192.168.2.1 and the last 192.168.3.1).

THE DS WIRELESS ROUTER –

1) WEP (TKIP 64bit)
2) LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF CLIENTS THAT CAN CONNECT <– I don’t know if this is available on all consumer routers, or if you can be bothered, but is the easiest way to stop others stealing your IP address/bandwidth, just allow the amount of clients that you are using at any specific time and turn off the router when you are finished.

THE COMPUTER WIRELESS ROUTER –

WPA/WPA2 - depending on your needs.

Most sensitive data that computers transmit these days should be protected with some form of end-to-end transmission (such as SSL). You have to be worried about data going over any network that anyone else owns if it’s not encrypted with end-to-end. Most passwords in sane network protocols are at least MD5-hashed if not done entirely with SSL.

However, it is certainly true that it would be easier to get at any non-encrypted information. That’s the problem with it being easy for others to get onto one’s private network.

Here is what most of you are missing: no encryption or WEP encryption is not only about bandwidth or getting onto your computers. The issue is the data that your devices are transmitting. For the data that the DS transmits, its not a big deal. But the data from the computers? There is any number of things that could be captured.

Internet connection comes in, goes to a switch. Two wireless routers are connected to the switch; both are on different subnets that don’t speak to one another. The DS is on it’s own subnet. Now, that does mean that someone could hack into the WEP router, and access my broadband connection, but I don’t make it the lowest handing fruit (I’ve disabled SSID broadcast, filter MAC addresses, and reduced the broadcast power setting by about half). I think it’s likely someone who wants to break in will go jiggle someone else’s doorknob first.

BUT, just to be on the safe side, I also have the WEP wireless net shut off at the router, and require that my daughter log in to HER router, and turn the wireless side on and off when she wants to use the DS online.

What a pain in the butt, Nintendo. Do the right thing, and provide a DS firmware upgrade.

I want good suuport for my DS god damnit! I would sure like to go online again!

I had my WiFi Access Point with WPA loooooong before NDS came out. So what’s your excuse you geniuses ?
That sounds to me like powering a rocket with a hamster in a wheel…

And besides: I would be nonsense if noone could use my internet connection, if i turned off my PC.
So my girlfriend won’t be able to go online with her notebook…

Honestly, do such technical idiots work at Nintendo’s ?