Ok so here goes, my wife and I got a wii and we want to get online with it so I bought a linksys gaming adapter (wga600n) and went through the computer set up and got it connected to my wireless modem, but now I can not get it to work with my wii. Any help anyone has will be greatly appreciated!
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
Can you give me an idea of what type of setup you're currently using? I'm not terribly familiar with the Wii's network connectivity features, but I do believe it has a wireless adapter built in. And that wireless adapter uses wireless G as opposed to N (which your gaming adapter supports by default).
This page kinda confirms that wireless N devices aren't likely to be compatible with the Wii's wireless features. If you can set up the device to use Wireless G (802.11g or 2.4Ghz as some devices will call them) it may work properly. Failing that, it is likely that you would need to get a wireless G access point or router and set that up instead. (Or perhaps set up the wireless connection on your wireless modem to communicate directly with the Wii).
edit: This may help. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I'm not sure what you are saying. Your Wii cannot find your wireless modem, so you purchased a gaming adapter hoping that would solve it?
What wireless modem are you using? I personally use a netgear WGT624 and my Wii has no problem finding it and getting online. As Boris mentions, the Wii itself already has wireless detection hardware inside it, which you should be able to use from the Wii's settings menu.
If you could describe the problem in greater detail perhaps I can help you.
Posted by Lostinspace (Member # 11633) on :
I can not connect to my modem with the wii's card because of the security system I set up with my modem which is a linksys wireless-n (wrt160n) I set up the game adapter (wga600n) with my computer and it is communicating just fine with my modem, then I hooked the adapter up to the wii as a lan line. The wii communicates with the adapter and the adapter communicates with the modem, I can see all this happening via the blinking lights. But it will not make a connection.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
I remember we had issues getting our wii to connect to our wireless. I'm trying to remember what fixed it.... using a different channel (1 or 11 seem to work well) is I think what finally worked.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
There's some terminology confusion here.
wrt160n: This is a wireless router. (This may in turn be connected to a "modem" but is not itself one.)
WGA600N: this is a wireless adapter.
This adapter seems to be designed to allow you to connect your gaming console via Ethernet cable - and it sounds like that's the way you've got it set up - but from what I can tell, the Wii itself doesn't have an Ethernet port. Is there another intermediate device such as a USB Ethernet adapter? Could that device have something to do with the problem?
One relatively easy way to isolate the problem is to see if you can access the internet through your gaming adapter wired to a PC. (For this test you'd want to ensure the PC can ONLY connect through the gaming adapter.) If this works, the problem is with how the Wii is talking to the adapter - probably an issue with the Wii itself or the Ethernet adapter you're using with the Wii. If it doesn't work, then you might need to work on your wireless configuration some more. this review details some of the contortions one user went through to get the device working properly.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Are you setting up your Wii connection as a "wired" connection as described here?
Posted by Lostinspace (Member # 11633) on :
scifi... I can connect to the internet via my gaming adapter but when I try to connect in with my wii through the gaming adapter it will not let me. And yes I am set to a wired connection.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Have you gone through the connection troubleshooting steps on the Nintendo support site? I wonder if it's a firewall problem. I don't *think* a Linksys router is likely to block the outbound ports you need open, but I'm not sure.
Did you try the configuration changes that were described in that review I linked? (Disabling WISH (whatever that is), disabling DHCP on the adapter, etc.)
Not sure what else you should try - except for maybe linksys tech support. >_<