I give up!! (Wii wireless / internet connection failures)

It worked for me right away. I just have a standard linksys wireless router. Good luck with yours!

I had the same experience. Jot down the error code you get and google it. You'll find some info.

Oh yeah, if you have a Linksys router be sure your router is in 'mixed' mode instead of 'g-only'. That little setting kept me from getting online for almost 24 hours

I've read of troubles with specific routers, especially if the firmware hasn't been updated for a long time. It might be worth doing some searches to see if the Wii doesn't play well with your router, or if there is a firmware update available for it. Also it's good to double check your encryption key, I messed mine up the first time (62 character random WPA key).

This might help.

http://www.nintendowifi.com/

If you haven't done this, try assigning a fixed IP address. That's what I had to do.

You think you have it bad? You should see all the wifi usb adapter complaints for the ds. This wifi stuff is really tricky. While everything is going fine with my ds pc and 360. I cannot for the life of me stream pics music videos since the usb adapter uses ics. Ics doesnt play nice with upnp. And that needs to be cleared in order for it to work with streaming from pc to 360.

The usb wireless adapter needs a Wirless router to work.

ok, i read your post incorectly so i had to do some editing.
What model Netgear do you have?

I see,you have the Cable modem Network router combo.I had one they are no good.

False. Thats what the usb wifi adapter is for. If you DONT have a wireless router and have a wired one like myself. Anyways getting back on topic. Yeah those cable/router combo deals arent good to go with. Your best bet is like you said. Buying a cable modem and router by themselves.

Wireless adapter and wifi adapter are two differnt things.

I also had wireless problems until I configured the Wii to have a static IP.

Once I set up a static ip (instead of a dynamic/DHCP address), it worked fine.

Just curious, but do you have any security set up on your network? I have mine set up so only certain devices can access my network. I added my Wii to that list and I was good right away. I have a netgear router, but it isn't a combo one.

I got a new 2wire router a week ago. I typed in the WEP key and the Wii was good to go!

Now you can download all the games you want.For a wireless router it downloads video fast.

I would HIGHLY suggest that anyone using WiFi for their home network enable MAC filtering and WPA-PSK. WEP is easily cracked within about 2 minutes from a laptop in a car in the street.

MAC filtering is something most people don't know about or think about, but it's one of the best wireless protection methods. It's like saying if I don't know the number of a person connecting, they can't connect. In the Internet settings you can see the Wii's MAC.

Basics:
1. Enable MAC Filtering - This only allows MACs entered into the router to get a connection.
2. DISABLE SSID broadcasting - Prevents someone from easily seeing your router without your consent.
3. Use WPA-PSK - Sadly, the DS doesn't support this (stupid). However, it's MUCH harder to hack the code. The code has to be entered on the client side and the router.
4. Don't point the router's antennas straight up, the signal comes out from the side not the tip. Think of your finger is the antenna and put that in the hole of a donut. The shape of the donut is the signal coverage. Tilt the antenna so that your clients (computer, wii, ds) are enveloped within that donut space.

People just stick the adapter into the wii's link part on the back of the wii. it worked for me. I had truble too but i just stuck the thing in the back of the wii and opdated a few stuf then presto is was working!

Mmmm... donut space.

My setup went very easy. WEP encryption (I know, not hugely secure, but you can't do WDS networks with WPA encryption), MAC address filtering. Got 2 updates from Nintendo. Got Opera to work.

But now, nada. Nothing. I can't get the Wii to connect anymore at all. Weird, because it was working fine and now, nothing.

I will write down the error code and Google it -- good advice. I was kind of just assuming it was useless info.

I may also tear down my WDS extended network and just turn up the power on my Linksys to compensate. Then, I think I can use WPA all around. Maybe that will work better. Too bad though, because I now have my very long WEP key memorized...

FWIW, I had tried everything to get my Wii online also and nothing worked until I hard coded an IP address. Then it worked immediately. Doesn't make sense, but that's what it took.

Same here. I assigned the Wii a static IP address at the router. Note: Nintendo says to use one 10 away from your primary source. For example if you use a wireless router with an address of 192.168.1.1 then the Wii must be 192.168.1.11 at least. I used .20.

Also, I went into the Wii and manually set the IP address there too to match the static IP address I set on the router.

Shouldn't be required with DHCP but I believe I read in a Nintendo forum about the Wii not being so hot about automatically getting an IP from routers or something like that.

My solution was the exact opposite of most peoples' here. I had to STOP trying to put in a manual address and use DHCP. I think it's finally working reliably now.

The whole idea that you have to use an IP address that's "10 away" from any others on your network seems 100% ridiculous to me. It's not like you get crosstalk or anything between IP addresses!

10 away is just a number that's not likely to be taken by another device, yet still likely to be in whatever subnet size you've set up your router for.

Check out Nintendo's site. They have that and other "official" suggestions too.

Another tip if youre Wii isnt seeing youre router, is to make sure you have youre SSiD set to brodcast not hidden,and you settings set to allow B and G not just G.

Then turn on youre wii and let it see the router, once that happens and youre online, go back to youre router and hide youre SSiD and put the router back to G only. You dont want B and G selected because anyone useing B in youre neighborhood including cars driving by will kill youre connection rate.

After that you should be golden and youre wii should be talking to youre router even tho the ssid is hidden

Not saying that your suggestion (above) isn't a sensible one but I think that's really only needed if you tell your Wii to automatically scan for available wireless router signals; if you manually configure the wireless settings on your Wii, you don't really need to enable SSID broadcast on your router as long as you correctly input the name of your SSID in the Wii settings. I know such is possible because that is exactly what I did and not once did I have to enable SSID broadcast on my wireless router.

OTOH--if all else fails, then by all means enable SSID broadcast and see if that resolves the issue...