Wii Net Connect

Wii net connect
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I have had the product connected for 3 weeks now and no problems. As advertised – new in original factory sealed box. Would buy from this seller again.

Great Service; Crappy Product
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I received the thing in a very timely matter, all properlyb packaged and all, but its a roya pain to get it to work. I spent many hours trying to make it work, to no avail!

This is not a game; it’s an accesory for wii
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The device works as advertised, but I later realize that it does not increase my network speed in any perceivable way because my wireless connection is already good so the added reliability with this wired connection does not improve the speed.

An adapter that works, since their wireless has problems
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
What can I say, this adapter is inexpensive and it works reliably, all the time.

The Nintendo Wii Wireless has a problem in certain scenarios. They expect a basic rate on wireless set on 1 or 2mbps. In most consumer grade products this isn’t a problem, as the products often don’t allow you to tweak that setting, nor does the consumer know why they would want to.

If you happen to run something non-consumer, or DD-wrt or openwrt, or really have issues supporting legacy 802.11b, you may not have the 1/2mbps data rates enabled. (Some consumer based products do allow you to set ‘g only’ or ‘a/g only’ or ‘a/g/n only’ now.)

For me, I only have 11g rates, 11a rates, and 11n rates enabled. The Nintendo Wii absolutely won’t work with it’s current firmware, if you don’t support 1/2mb data rates (which are part of 802.11b). So if you’ve enabled “11g only” on your router, or specifically disabled those data rates, you’re out of luck.

I bought this adapter to get around it, because I didn’t want to have to support 11b rates, for a device that has an 802.11b/g card in it. (The implications are that your overall wireless will be slower when devices are connected at b, as it has to implement protection mechanisms for backward compatibility)

So to be clear, although the device ’supports’ 802.11g data rates (and it does, and works with them). The initial message exchange, it only listens for beacons and probe responses on the 1/2mb 802.11b data rates. Which is pretty amazing, as that is a hold over from devices that are already considered “old legacy”. Very few devices today still have that restriction, and I can’t think of any that are as new as the wii that still have that restriction. A simple software update would fix this problem if Nintendo were interested.

Works great!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I had some issues connecting via wireless with my Wii, so I decided to try a wired connection instead. I gave the Nyko Wii Net Connect a shot, as it’s quite a bit cheaper than the official Nintendo LAN adapeter. Plugged it in, turned on the Wii, went into settings and set as a wired connection. That’s it! Worked right away. I’d have no qualms using this adapter again in the future. Excellent product and easy to use.