Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Wii, Fios, Dumb

The Nintendo Wii makes it very easy to setup an Internet connection using your existing wireless router. The dumb-user mode worked great for me the first time I tried it. However, I've switched over to Fios, and have thus switched over to their wireless router. It also tried to provide a dumb-user mode that makes everything easy. Two dumb machines on one network is too many apparently. The Wii tries it's hardest but just cannot get a connection that satisfies it. It then spits out a really dumb error message ("52030"). Thanks for emulating one of the things that drives me nuts about Oracle.

The solution wasn't bad. You have to manually set the IP address et al. on the Wii in order to get it to work with the Actiontec MI424-WR router that Fios gives you.

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