I'm planning to buy my brother a US copy of Phantasy Star Zero for Christmas. Obviously the main thing about the game is the online play, which is problematic on the DS. No support for WPA, the Nintendo USB WiFi dongles no longer being manufactured, and not working in Vista/Win7 64-bit anyway.We have our home network protected with WPA2 with MAC address filtering, and I'm reluctant to change that.
I was thinking the solution might be to get a USB WiFi stick for the DS to connect to (secured with WEP), and bridge it with the main network. While the stick would be the 'weak spot' in security on the network, it does not have to be plugged in all the time - only when we want to use the DS. Plus we can make the range extremely small.
However, I don't know much about USB Wifi sticks because I never use them. I assume I need to have one that can act as an access point - do I need a special one for this? Will this do? Obviously I'd rather not spend too much seeing as it's only for the DS.
I was thinking the solution might be to get a USB WiFi stick for the DS to connect to (secured with WEP), and bridge it with the main network. While the stick would be the 'weak spot' in security on the network, it does not have to be plugged in all the time - only when we want to use the DS. Plus we can make the range extremely small.
However, I don't know much about USB Wifi sticks because I never use them. I assume I need to have one that can act as an access point - do I need a special one for this? Will this do? Obviously I'd rather not spend too much seeing as it's only for the DS.
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