Wii Question

from JoeUser Forums
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!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
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 !

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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Haha...nevermind. Problem solved apparently
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
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!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
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!