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[mossbaby]

The 2ghz band under WEP security mode is not working. I have upgraded the firmeware to the latest version which is 1.01.
The 2ghz band is working under WPA.
Wi-fi protection is set to disable.

Any ideas how to get the security mode working under WEP?
With WEP, my laptop cannot connect wirelessly.
I need to have WEP because that's the only way my wireless printer can connect.

D-link support doesn't know. Any ideas?

[Lycan]

What do you have the 802.11 mode set to?

[mossbaby]

I left the 2ghz band security mode set to WEP.
The rest of the settings are left at default.

Should I change it to anything in particular?

[arod]

I'm assuming you're trying to connect with a laptop? What laptop are you using if you are using one?

[mossbaby]

I have 2 laptops.
One is HP and the other is Sony.
Both laptop cannot connect to the router when configured with 2ghz and wep security.
I can connect to the router with 2 ghz and wpa security or 5ghz wpa.

I do not think the laptop is the issue since the laptop were working fine with an older D-link router under 2ghz and wep security. The only thing has changed is the introduction of the dir-825 with wep security and this is the root cause of the problem.

[arod]

When you switch to WEP encryption are you using the same SSID? or are you changing it? You probably need to clear the wireless profile in your PC's because it is probably still set to authenticate with WPA.

[mossbaby]

Yes, I already cleared the SSID from the laptops.
When I try to connect for the first time, I'm prompted to enter in the key which I did and it takes forever to try to connect. At the end, it does not connect.

[arod]

What wireless adapters are you using? are they internal? and are the drivers up to date?

[mossbaby]

Ru-fi-oh,

The wireless adapters and drivers are not the issue.
This problem exists on 5 different laptops when trying to connect to this router. Hence, it's a router problem.

[labens]

I know this is an old thread, but I've been struggling with something similar with the ver B1 F/W 2.02NA product.

My IOGear USB to 802.11B print server would not connect to this router configured with the same WEP settings as my old Belkin 802.11G router. 

My initial configuration was this:

Primary 2.4GHz SSID = B/G/N WPA
Primary 5GHz SSID = A/N WPA
Guest 2.4GHz SSID = WEP

I tried the above setup both with the DIR-825 configured as a router and an AP (DHCP off / no wire to WAN port).

Two problems observed:

1) The printer could not connect to this configuration, but any laptop could.

2) I also found that any device connected in N mode would lose communication with the network (not wireless connection) a few minutes after association.  This was easily reproducible by trying to copy a file from a network share through windows explorer.   A few bytes would copy, then stop.  The connection was fine, but you'd no longer be able to ping the router.  Computer connected with G had no problem with this same configuration.

I finally found that the IOGear Wireless B device would connect when the Primary SSID was set to WEP instead of the Guest Zone.  So I changed the configuration to this:

Primary 2.4GHz SSID = B/G/N WEP
Primary 5GHz SSID = A/N WPA
Guest 2.4GHz SSID = WPA

Now the IOGear / printer connects with no problem.  However issue #2 persists.  I've read in some places that 802.11N does not support WEP.  If I remove the WEP configuration, my N devices work properly.  But then I have no printer.  It's also interesting that other routers I use and that work properly with multiple SSIDs would have the WPA SSID available on B/G/N and the WEP SSID available only on B/G.  Where as the DIR-825 shows the WEP SSID on B/G/N.

By the way, I should note that the N connection issues are the same regardless of the client device used.  It's easily reproducible even with a DWA-160 (ver B1) when connecting on 2.4GHz band.

If anyone knows how to entice D-Link to correct this, please let me know.  I'd be more than happy to provide detailed, reproducible use cases.

[mossbaby]

After contacting D-Link, I finally got my configuration fixed.
It's a defective product. As a result, you have to go and manually change the configuration.

Leave me your email and I'll email you my configuration. Back-up yours first, then load my in there.