Update for Microsoft Windows XP: KB826942

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This update provides support for Wireless Protected Access, a new standards-based wireless security solution developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. WPA is intended to replace the existing Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) standard, offering much more robust methods of encryption and authentication and resulting in a new level of protection for customers taking advantage of the wireless features of Windows XP. For more information about this update, read Knowledge Base Article 826942.

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NB:
-Please uninstall previous versions of sonique2 before installing.
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Updates:
-CDPlay - an 'analog' CD plugin (thanks Jerome!)
-remove from taskbar support (thanks Jerome!)
-many many bug fixes and mantis changes. skinners, check the forum for details.
-fullscreen vises and video windows now use mantis hotkeys.
-online window improvements.
-ID3 editor is now multithreaded.
-various bug fixes and tweaks.
-language and help updates.

#1 xStainDx on 01 Nov 2003 - 05:59

Thank You Voodoo.

(2 replies) #2 womble68 on 01 Nov 2003 - 10:50

Sounds like the fix to one of my major problems with WPA encryption within WinXP, finding the connection disconnects (for whatever reason), then you have to reconnect manually. Hopefully from now on, that won't have to be the case!

#2.1 divertom15 on 02 Nov 2003 - 03:39

so thats what was making my wireless go freaky

#2.2 briangw on 02 Nov 2003 - 11:13

QUOTE

I had the same problem until I fooled around with the settings. There was one particular check box that had to be either checked or unchecked and after I did that, I never got disconnected again.

Sorry that I don't remember the setting, but the patch should cure the connection ills.

#3 kobin on 01 Nov 2003 - 11:20

i have not updated for a long time...

#4 cesardrgn on 01 Nov 2003 - 16:50

Thanks Voodoo...

#5 SomeDork on 02 Nov 2003 - 09:13

Good catch!

As an FYI this is shaping up to be a critical patch for anyone who wants to use WPA. For me, it appears to have cleared up all oddities with using WPA over WEP, at least in the last few hours I've tested. Usually I've been getting random disconnects and problems within a few minutes (when using WEP the connection was fine, as a comparison).

#6 excalpius on 02 Nov 2003 - 19:41

Yes, this patch is dynamite. It fixed every WPA problem I've had with all adapters. I now have rock solid, persistent connections. And my connection speeds are now reporting higher and are confirmed as faster, even though I haven't changed the position of either the base station of receiving machine. Yay!

(2 replies) #7 SethandCheese on 02 Nov 2003 - 23:01

How is this different from Q815485? It was for WPA access too...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];815485

#7.1 OptiPlex on 02 Nov 2003 - 23:05

Think of it as this:

KB826942 replaces KB815485

#7.2 xStainDx on 03 Nov 2003 - 03:37

That added Support to XP. This fixes bugs.

#8 mipra on 03 Nov 2003 - 08:24

so..this is supposed to fix the disconnection issue, right? I'm going to give it a try and post what I will find

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