Re: Wii Won't Connect to Internet

Mike wrote:

I cannot get our Wii to connect to the Net, despite an hour on the
phone with Nintendo support and entering re-entering our encryption
key and IP address and DNS settings into the console. Nintendo is
telling me to disable the encryption (WEP) on my Linksys WRT54G
wireless router.

A. I'm paranoid and don't want to do that.
B. They also said to change my channel 11

Anyone else running into this problem? Has ANYONE been able to connect
to the Net with encryption turned on? Is changing it to Channel 11
enough? Disabling encryption is a last resort because it was a pain to
get running correctly and I'm assuming if I shut it off, that if I
turn it back on, it will generate a new WEP key that I will have to re-
enter into my various PCs and laptops?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

My Wii uses WPA-Personal to connect to the 'net via my WRT54G, and it
works fine. It also worked when I used WEP on the WRT54G.

Turning off encryption at the router and at the Wii is a good experiment,
to see if your problem is with local connectivity or with the settings
for encryption. With the WRT54G, you can turn encryption off and back
on without needing to reenter the passphrase. Also note that WPA is
more secure than WEP (but Nintendo DS's don't support WPA).

I'm currently successfully using channel 1 due to interference from my
neighbor's channel 6 WLANs, but I previously used channel 6 and (I think)
tried 11; the Wii seems to adapt to any channel, as it should. I use
DHCP with the Wii and the router; that also works correctly. I have my
router set to -G only, since I no longer need 802.11B; I don't know if
the Wii worked with mixed B/G; I may not have ever tried.

For debugging, move the Wii to be very close to the router (with no
intervening walls/doors), to ensure a strong signal. Currently, my Wii
is ~50' from my WRT54G, but my router has an after-market 7 dBi antenna
and I have clear Line of Sight; with the standard antennae, you'll
probably need to be far closer.

Keep on trying. I found that setup on the Wii was very trying. :-)
--
Cheers, Bob
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