plank

Member

• Aug 31, 2009

• #1

Please for give me I'm not that technical savvy as most of Gaf, but Its been less than three years since I got a Wii and we go on line a lot (wiiware, vc). Its been working fine until this past weekend. For some reason it can't find an access point when I try to set it up wireless. I even manually entered the ssid and it still wont connect. Here's the thing, the other computers (laptop) and devices (DSi) that uses the wifi connects to it just fine so I'm assuming nothings wrong with the wireless router. Do you guys think that its the wifi components in the wii? Any Solutions?



Move this to gaming plz thanks.

 

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GDGF

Soothsayer

• Aug 31, 2009

• #2

I claim this thread for Spain.

 

plank

Member

• Aug 31, 2009

• #3

I'm sorry did I word it wrong or something.

 

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Joe Shlabotnik

Banned

• Aug 31, 2009

• #4

I doubt the Wii's WiFi went "bad"--if you literally did not change anything in the Wii or router settings before you had problems, it's likely something popped up nearby that is causing interference. You could try changing the channel the router is broadcasting on.

 

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fistfulofmetal

Banned

• Aug 31, 2009

• #5

all night long

 

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Struct09

Member

• Aug 31, 2009

• #6

Try changing the wireless channel on the router to 1 or 11. The default is usually 6, but Wii works best with 1 and 11.

 

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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative

• Aug 31, 2009

• #7

Bro Story great.

 

plank

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #8

Looks like I'm going to have to get a new Wii or something, I've tried everything, even reset the modem and the router. :/ The DSi and laptop I have works great with the Linksys router I have. There even picking up my neighbors wireless signals. The Wii right now picks up nothing.

 

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Metroid Killer

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #9

 

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heliosRAzi

Banned

• Sep 1, 2009

• #10

GDGF said:

I claim this thread for Spain.

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I'm claiming this thread for Mongolia. You can have Florida

 

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Jayge

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #11

It's a longshot but... did you consider e-mailing or calling Nintendo Support before asking GAF and deciding to buy a new Wii? (Why isn't this in gaming?)

 

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acidviper

Banned

• Sep 1, 2009

• #12

about this long

 

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DeaconKnowledge

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #13

Go to your router, scrap your network settings and completely re-do them. then try again. This happened to me with my Wii a few months ago and that was the exact problem.

If it continues to not work after that, call Nintendo.

 

plank

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #14

Jayge said:

(Why isn't this in gaming?)

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I don't know, I thought it was. :/

 

plank

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #15

Move this to gaming plz thanks.


Ok now I know its the wifi in the Wii. every time I unplug the whole unit from an outlet and plug it back in it connects for a while then loses the connection.

 

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SouthernDragon

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #16

do

 

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Barbacoatl

Banned

• Sep 1, 2009

• #17

Give it to gafferoon.

 

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Forkball

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #18

The Wii has a self destruct chip inside of it that goes off when you buy a third party game.

 

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Dali

Member

• Sep 1, 2009

• #19

Forkball said:

The Wii has a self destruct chip inside of it that goes off when you buy a third party game.

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Well played. I was going to go with 'it depends on the amount use it gets, so for the average Wii owner 15-27 years'.

 

plank

Member

• Sep 2, 2009

• #20

Got it to work fine now. Interesting only when I've erased the old version of the Internet Channel is when it started working.