Wifi-Max

[lazyjk]

I am on a college LAN and tried setting up a router 2 days ago. Didn't have much luck, so I stopped by bestbuy Wednesday. I picked up a Wifi max and after a couple of initial hiccups (channel being wrong) it started to work. Cheaper and easier than setting up a router in my case. I would have probably gone with the official Nintendo one, but this one works and it is available now.

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[micster]

i got a WiFi MAX yesterday

IT IS UTTER CRAP. Just get the official one, thats what i am having to do now

[Jenksie]

Have people been having much success with the official Nintendo USB WI-FI device. I'm thinking of buying one and i want to be sure that it will work for me.

[registerednerd]

Have people been having much success with the official Nintendo USB WI-FI device. I'm thinking of buying one and i want to be sure that it will work for me.

My cousin uses one, he and I have both connected DS'es and Wii's no problem. The only issue is that the range is terrible (about 30 feet for him)

[Wiiaretheworld]

I got an error code when I tried to set the wii up using my wireless network. So I just used someone else's wifi connection and it worked. I'm sure I just need to reset my wifi settings on my router...but I'm too lazy. so I'll just continue to use my neighbor's connection.

[Wiiaretheworld]

Don't worry, you cant do anything online yet anyways...

[chiodos]

i got this thing the other day thinking it was the official one, so i go ahead and use it and had the same problem you did. do you have a firewall on? i didnt notice but there was something new that i told the firewall to block when i installed the software, and then i unblocked it and its been working fine for my ever since

[Tronfo]

I'm having the same problem with a different error message. This is really frustrating...I'm looking up stuff about the thing now, though; hopefully something'll turn up.

[Maleko]

First off, do you have ICS setup on the comp you hooked the WiFi MAX to (or routing software)?
Second with your static IP set, set the DNS to your ISPs DNS servers (Start, RUN, cmd, then in the cmd window, ipconfig /all, then look for the DNS entries)

From the error code, it sounds as though your getting on the WiFi but not to the net. I would double check that WIndows sees your WiFi MAX as a network adapter and run (or re-run) Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

[Spiderking13]

i have one, and it works great for me!!!!!