Wii Question

Published on December 23, 2007 By foreverserenity In Console Games

Hving had one or more people up in arms since I last posted (correctly too!) under Gaming, in Cosole Games....this is a question regarding the Wii, if you're too hard core and magnificent for this, move on!

So I broke out the Wii, long story short, I made a promise to my son and I kept it by letting us use it before Christmas. Let me tell you, it's one heck of a console system! I understand now why it's so popular and why so many ahem "casual" ahem, people love this thing!

My question is this if anyone would be kind enough to answer. We set it up it's playing OK. I love the Sports pack because of the assortment of activities, I rule at Tennis and suck at bowling!LOL! We, make that my son, wants to connect to the Internet. We have Road Runner and we have a Wifi USB connector and it will not connect because of the Fire Wall. We have to remove the Fire Wall and I don't want to for fear of letting any dangers in on our home PC. Am I wrong in thinking this way? Would we be able to turn it off for a moment or would the wall have to be down permanently for the connections to work?

Comments

foreverserenity

on Dec 23, 2007

Figured it out! I went on to Nintendo.com and troubleshoot and with their suggestions gave the Wii access via my FireWall without turning it off! Just FYI for anyone else who have had this problem! The following link helped with error messages too !

Link

OckhamsRazor

on Dec 23, 2007

Hmm, I'm not a networking genius, so be sure to get a second opinion, but I use firewalls ON my computer to secure the computers. I use MAC address filtering to secure my network thus relieving the router of having to be a firewall.

If you don't know what a MAC address is, it's a unique string of cryptic looking hexadecimal pairs that is associated with (among a surprising amount of other things you don't really need to know about) your network cards in your computers and, yes, the Wii.

In my routers configuration page, I enable MAC address filtering and then enter the MAC address of every item I wish to allow to connect to it.

So. Router governs what connects to network, and then the individual computers worry about what connects to them (firewall).

I allow my Wii to connect to my network and haven't had any troubles with it.

This was a quickly typed (for a technical subject) answer, so if you have further questions (such as "what the hell are you talking about, Ock?") just post 'em up and I'll try to stop back by soon.

Cheers,
Moi

OckhamsRazor

on Dec 23, 2007

Haha...nevermind. Problem solved apparently

foreverserenity

on Dec 23, 2007

Haha...nevermind. Problem solved apparently

That's Ock! Thx for your response though I appreciate that! We did some fiddling and chewing and found our way to the nintendo site after googling because my son is the impatient gamer!

! HE is happily playing and we're joining in once in a while!

Gideon MacLeish

on Dec 23, 2007

Well, I'm not a networking genius, but I AM certified, and I second Ock's suggestion. You can unblock ports on your firewall (which is presumably what you did), but you can also set your Wii up outside the firewall.

foreverserenity

on Dec 24, 2007

but I AM certified

Careful how you throw that around Gid!

! Certifiable to some might mean the looney bin!

! I'm sorry, you walked into that one! Yes, I remember you are and thanks for the input also!

You can unblock ports on your firewall (which is presumably what you did), but you can also set your Wii up outside the firewall.

We did find out how to do that, never had to do that before!

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