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Wii not responding to Wi-Fi USB Connector?
I bought Nintendo's Wi-Fi USB connector on Tuesday, hooked it up, worked great, I was sending messages to my friends and all. Wednesday night the wii stopped responding to it, so I uninstalled, reinstalled, went through A LOT of internet connection sharing issues, and now I've finally got the software to reinstall right... but the wii is not responding to the registration tool.
It says to grant the wii permission to connect through the Wi-Fi connection tool. I have done this, and the wii doesn't respond to it.
Note: this isn't the first time installing it. it worked fine on tuesday :\
Does anyone have a fix for me? :(
I should clarify further--I don't have a wireless router, I use a wired linksys. I'm not sure if I can change the wireless channel, I've checked the router's settings and haven't seen anything.
2 Answers
- IntentionalityLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I suspect another device installed in your house/neighborhood is interfering with the connection.
-- Make sure a radio "line of sight" is available for your device: between your Wii and PC, get as many radio emitting or electronic products OUT OF THE WAY. Unplug them, move them to somewhere else, etc. If there's something new (not referring to your PC but anything electronic) you bought and installed in your house on the day you lost the connection, that device would be suspect. Take it out and see if you get the connection back.
-- If that doesn't work, perhaps one of your neighbors installed a Wi-Fi network or device and is using the same channel as you. Most people's networks don't have the same SSID or password, but can still interfere with the correct channel or radio frequency. Try switching channels. Wii's instruction manual suggests channel 1 or 11, but in my old house, I had my Wii running with my Wi-Fi router on Channel 3 since everyone else was using both channels 1 and 11. Check the manual for the USB Wi-Fi Connector and see if you can change to a different channel. TRY ALL OF THEM, but 1, 6 and 11 seem to have the best chance of success, since they use completely different radio frequencies (instead of 2-5 and 7-10 which use sidebands of the same frequency.)
-- Get it closer to the Wii. If your Wii is in the living room and the PC in the bedroom, consider moving the Wii to the bedroom too.
WiFi involves a lot of trial and error... not to mention patience. If you aren't familiar with networking and know of a neighborhood-friendly PC nerd, you'd do best to utilize their expertise at this time.
- 1 decade ago
I've not used the USB connector, but it is supposed to be significantly simpler than a wifi router.
Go to the Wii internet settings. Try creating a new wireless connection and select the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector and see if it finds it. This is is what you've done in the past, correct? Either the Wii will give you an error or the program running in the computer will.
btw - you're not running Vista, are you? Nintendo notes that the USB connector won't work on Vista. Also, because this is Wi-Fi, line of sight has nothing to do with this at all.
