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[ldcjmd]

Seeking technical information from advanced users / Forum members: is it possible to set-up simultaneous
"WPA" and WPA-2" wireless connections in the D-Link DIR-615?? We have 3 devices that will connect ONLY
to an old/obsolete "WPA Certification-Level" wireless connection...while 2 devices will connect all day long to a nice "WPA-2 Certification-Level" Personal-Edition wireless connection. Perhaps possible to have the 2 types of connections on different Frequency bands (b/g/n)?? Have set up wireless connections "from" each
device, individually...and, have set up connections manually by 'tunneling-into' the Box via web-browser. We
have 2 laptops using W7 64-Bit, one using Vista 64-Bit, an X-Box, and a Kindle. Would really really like to be able to use WPA-2 for security reasons (since WPA encryption was hacked years ago...). ANY info would be appreciated! (*FYI: will be checking this Forum every-other-day, on average, due to my schedule.)

[FurryNutz]

Leaving the router set for Auto WPA/WPA2 should allow either client device to connect to what ever that device supports.

There is no other settings except for either or or leaving it Auto.

If you really need, you might get a additional AP device to use for older products that don't support WPA2.

[ldcjmd]

-Thank you for your kind reply, err-Furry. Would you re-post that statement about "...except for either or or leaving it Auto...", please? It may be a typo, but it's confusing.  In the meantime...anyone else with "INNN-put, i need inn-put" (-No.5).
-My DIR-615 reports that it has two devices internally, a 'GDI' and a 'router'...laughter met those revelations, since the little guy cannot seem to keep ANY of the 5 connections from one day to the next, using it's default settings [set via reset through the back hole for entire 10 seconds, with power adapter IN, and again, with power adapter OUT]. Doesn't matter whether the laptops are left on, with no sleeping allowed.
-One clue perhaps is that a (fully-up-to-date) Windows7 laptop, will obviously communicate with the DIR-615 immediately when W7 starts (watching with a monitoring applet), but seems never to get a Leased IP address, therefore no IPv4 access to www. [Our provider, like far too many, provides no IPv6 access, STILL, sadly. Perhaps on June 6th this year?] The previous occurred when using WPA-2 Personal Edition connections (and when two other laptops were working quite nicely).

[FurryNutz]

Leaving the router set up for Auto WPA and WPA2 should allow any devices to connect at the same time using either WPA or WPA2 depending on what the device supports. So if you had a device that only supported WPA and a 2nd device that supports WPA2, both should connect at the same time.

[ldcjmd]

Anyone else care to provide some useful information? To RE-peat, DIR-615 is NOT providing working www
connections to all 5 devices, when set to "Auto WPA and WPA-2", or ANYthing-else, except "WPA" wireless connections only. [Everything was already tried, bar changing/testing advanced-settings, such as frequency-band or thresholds or TCP-Checksum-offload type stuff.] We do not want to stay with WPA, because it is not secure; it can be sniffed and broken-into.

[FurryNutz]

You could run another AP and set it up for your older devices that need WPA and then set the 615 up for WPA2 only. If your devices are not upgradeable by maybe getting USB Wifi adapters that support WPA2 and you still need to use them, then I would recommend a 2nd AP for just those devices that need WPA.