Topic: Trouble connecting DS/Wii to wireless

[PoopyLoopy]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if I could get some help.


I'm a staff member at a college and I have to live here in an apartment for my job. The wireless internet here is weird, it doesn't require a WEP key but if you want to use it you first need to open a browser which directs you to a sign in page. From there you need to sign into the network with your college username and password and you're all set for wireless. Problem is, the Wii and DS don't know what to do with this kind of setup. There must be SOME way around it, either by running some kind of program on my computer and running a router from the computer, or just setting some WEP/DNS/whatever setting on the Wii/DS to bypass it...but I know nothing about this stuff so I was wondering if anyone had any advice.


Can anyone help? Thanks.

[Saturn2888]

If you have two network cards on your PC, then use a tunneling software, much like what some GCN users used to get LAN games online.

There is an adapter for this. I'm VERY sure your college doesn't allow you to set up your own access point or router, so what you do is this:
find the USB adapter that is for the DS, and then from there, connect using your PC and the USB adapter will make it so your Wii can go online. I don't know the specifics, but if you read the really old mailbags from this summer, there's info on the DS USB wireless adapter.

[PoopyLoopy]

I used to have the USB connector and it wouldn't let my DS online, you're saying it will work if I'm running tunneling software? Do you have any software suggestions?

[Saturn2888]

Not really. Search around, try SourceForge or NorseForge for a better look at what's around. Google is good too. I'm as lost as you are. Hopefully one of the NWR people know of something. I know. Ask Windy in the bag! Guess that solves that.

[zero64]

I've used a similar wireless system, and there's one workaround I know of that may work.
To do this, you change the MAC address on your computer to that of the DS or Wii (if it's running Windows, you can use a program called Macshift), whichever you're trying to connect, then login. As soon as you're logged in, disconnect the computer from the wireless and try to connect the DS/Wii (change the MAC of the computer back to normal if you want to use it on the wireless connection). With any luck, the network will remember that you were logged in by the MAC.
Now this is not a great solution, and of course you would need to repeat this every time you wanted to access the internet, but it could possibly hold you over until you get Opera (which I hope would allow you to login).

[PoopyLoopy]

It didn't work. I find it odd that IT at this school can do NOTHING right except prevent people from doing things they'd want to.



One last thing, I'm not super sure that I used macshift correctly as it's fairly complicated and there's no confirmation that you did anything right. How did you get it to work?

[zero64]

Sorry you still haven't been able to get it working. Here's some more info on macshift. Now, I thought there was some confirmation (at least it should tell you if you type the command wrong) as long as you run it from the command prompt, but I haven't run it lately.

To set the MAC, you type something like:
macshift 0123456789AB -i "Wireless Network Connection"

Where "0123456789AB" is replaced by your DS's MAC address, and "Wireless Network Connection" is the name of your connection as it appears in "Network Connections". This is assuming you are using Windows XP.
To restore my wireless MAC, I would run:
macshift -d -i "Wireless Network Connection"

You can put these in BAT/CMD files to make it easy to change quickly. If you want to confirm that your MAC has been changed, run "ipconfig /all" from the command line (you may have to be connected). Look for the wireless connection, at the Physical Address.

[ZeldaWarlord]

My Friend and I are both living on a college campus with our Wiis and both have Nintendo USB Wi-Fi Connectors... I was wondering if anyone was having the same trouble my friend it has had... his Nintendo USB can see his Wii and he can grant it permission to connect, however it never connects to the internet when he tries it... it is brand new and for some reason isnt working, mine works fine and i am currently hooked up, so im just trying to help him out... Any suggestions?

[PoopyLoopy]

I finally changed the Mac Address but still nothing...guess I'm out of luck

[PoopyLoopy]

Just wondering if anyone has any new information on this problem...I doubt it but it's worth a shot!

[zero64]

Just to confirm you're doing the same thing I am:
First (it may seem obvious but I'm trying to cover the bases) make sure the DS is setup for the network, with the ssid or whatever it needs (in my case it also uses a WEP key).
Okay, are you able to connect to the wireless (i.e. log in with your school username and password) with your computer once you change the MAC address to the DS's MAC address? If so, once you do that, turn off the power to the wireless card (my laptop has a switch for the antenna), or disable the adapter in Network Connections. Immediately attempt to connect with your DS.

If all else fails, you could get a wireless router or USB adapter, as was suggested earlier.