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Hinata

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Hey... I just imported PBR, and Im tryin to get my wii hooked up to my internet... I just found out that my wireless router doesnt support hookups from Wiis cuz its a comcast router... do you think it would work if I bought one of those DS/Wii wifi adapter thingys?
 
Comcast router? Or are you referring to the modem that the cable connects to? If it's a router, you'll be able to connect it to the Wii despite the brand. It just depends on what kind of router. Is it a wired router? If so, just buy the LAN Adapter either from Datel or Nintendo. The other is a wireless router, and it doesn't sound like you have one of those.

If you want to buy the WiFi adapter - which is basically a weaker version of a wireless router - just make sure you have Windows XP. It works, but from what I heard, it isn't the best. Good luck though.

Oh, and one more thing, you imported PBR? Are you sure that's okay? Last I remember, the Wii isn't region-free like the DS.
 
I ordered the official Nintendo Wifi Adapter and it works with my DS/Wii despite my router not working with it.
 
i have thatt nintendo ds router thingy, it was soo annoying with the wii and then i found out my router did work, i just needed to put time into it and it worked out well ;)
 
Well, I looked up the error message on nintendo, and it said it may be a problem with the router... it named a couple specific comcast models that do not support the wii... including mine:
Netgear CG814WG v2

yea, and I have a US wii, along w/ an Imported one I got cheap off ebay
 
I do not understand. What are you talking about? What's a router?
 
The wireless cable modem... the thing that connects the computer to the internet...
 
Hinata said:
The wireless cable modem... the thing that connects the computer to the internet...
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This is how people end up making threads like this, because people who have no clue what they're talking about try and answer questions.

Assuming you have a high speed connection of some variety, either DSL, satellite or cable (and if you don't, leave now, because dial-up is incompatible with a wireless router), you have a high-speed modem that connects to your computer via an Ethernet cable, or in some cases, a USB cable. A high speed modem is NOT a router, and unless you specifically purchase a high speed modem with wireless router capability built in, which are available, your modem won't act as one.

A wireless router is a piece of equipment that goes between your modem and your computer, and connects to both via Ethernet cables. The router takes your high speed Internet connection and converts it into a wireless signal that it broadcasts over the router's effective range, then passes the Internet connection through to your computer. The wireless signal is what your Wii, DS, laptop, Blackberry, whatever, acquires in order to access the Internet wirelessly. A good wireless router can be found for $40 if you look in the right place, only a few dollars more than Nintendo's USB Wi-Fi connector and infinitely more useful.

If you want to get online wirelessly with your Wii or DS, you'll need either a wireless router or the USB Wi-Fi connector, and that's all; the Wii and the DS are both wireless-capable out of the box. Dial-up users need not apply.
 
A wireless router can work with dialu-p. It'll jsut be very very slow. PBR probably doesn't need a very fast connection anyway, since the game does most of the figuring out for itself, so it might actually work on dial-up.
 
Ophie said:
A wireless router can work with dialu-p. It'll jsut be very very slow. PBR probably doesn't need a very fast connection anyway, since the game does most of the figuring out for itself, so it might actually work on dial-up.
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Good luck getting that to work, because it won't. Your average wireless router does not have a phone jack on it. What does that mean? It means unless you have a dial-up modem with an Ethernet port on it, which I'm not sure even exist, there's no way to connect the modem to the router. Even if you were able to jury-rig something, it would be so slow as to be unuseable. Don't underestimate the amount of data any game sends and receives in any given second. I don't know where people get the impression that just because Pokémon games only send and receive data for the Pokémon and their attacks, a dial-up connection could handle it, because that's most decidedly not the case.

Trust me when I say "dial up users need not apply."
 
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