Connect Wii to ad hoc

[Guest]

Is it possible to connect the Nintendo Wii to a Wireless laptop, without a
router? Maybe using an ad hoc connection?

 

[Guest]

Is it possible to connect the Nintendo Wii to a Wireless laptop, without a
router? Maybe using an ad hoc connection?

Yes you can, to do that as you mentioned you need to be in Ad-Hoc mode peer-
to - peer.
Read this article :

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx
HTH.
Let us know.
Regs,
nass

 

[Robert Moir]

Is it possible to connect the Nintendo Wii to a Wireless laptop,
without a router? Maybe using an ad hoc connection?

No I don't believe it is. I don't think Nintendo support it.

You may be able to find some kind of "software Access Point" software for
your laptop's wireless chipset and try with that but otherwise I think you
might struggle.

 

[Chuck]

Is it possible to connect the Nintendo Wii to a Wireless laptop, without a
router? Maybe using an ad hoc connection?

That's an interesting idea. Making an ad-hoc WiFi connection, as described in
the article referenced by Nass, requires you to do several things from the Wii,
as from any computing device.
# Assign itself a fixed IP address.
# Assign itself an SSID.
# Manage an ad-hoc relationship.

So you have the Wii. Does it allow these things?

What do you want to do with a WiFi connection? If you want to connect to the
Internet, you'll have to setup a computer running a router. That will probably
be ICS. Running ICS with ad-hoc WiFi is another experience.

Maybe you tell us a bit more about what you have right now, and what you want to
do.
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http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/background-information-useful-in.html

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

You might find this page helpful.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/online.jsp