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Jabroney
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Location: Queensland
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I recently got a wii, and have a wired home network, where i have ethernet plugs in most of the bedrooms connecting to a router with the internet. Seeing as the Wii is not in the bedrooms, is there a small thing i can buy that i can plug into the network that just sends a relatively small wireless internet range for wii.
is this possible? or do i have to buy a new wireless router, which would be at the other end of my house, and possibly too far from the wii. |
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| #0 06:36pm 19/12/06 |
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Alize`
Posts: 402
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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I was curious about the same information. An access point allows you to make a wired network wireless costs a little cheper than a router not sure if the wii is compatible though? and you can also buy a nintendo wifi usb stick thingy which plugs into your pc and sends out a wireless signal. I think they go for about 60 on ebay??
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| #1 06:43pm 19/12/06 |
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Jabroney
Posts: 462
Location: Queensland
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anyone know much about these things "turbo homeplug ethernet"
http://www.cnet.com.au/wireless/adaptors/0,239029207,240059803,00.htm maybe thats the key? how do i fix that link? |
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| #2 06:55pm 19/12/06 |
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Alize`
Posts: 403
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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your link shows something at the cost of around $180. Much cheaper to get a wifi usb stick like these: EBAY wifi
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Raven
Posts: 1750
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Nintendo have a WiFi dongle which you can attach to another PC and use as a gateway - it costs about $30, but I'm not sure where you can actually buy it. You can also buy an ethernet adaptor for I think $30 also.
Alternatively DLink have the DI-514 wireless router which I think is somewhere in the range of $60 and $100. Edit: Staticice says its $80 so I was close. last edited by Raven at 20:48:13 19/Dec/06 |
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PHATm
Posts: 721
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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What Raven said, they should be at EB's etc...
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| #5 08:51pm 19/12/06 |
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Khel
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Location: Wynnum, Queensland
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If you already have a wired network and a router, and you dont want to use a PC as a gateway (cos if you did that your PC would have to be on all the time when you wanted to use your Wii, which may or may not be a problem), then you can just get a Wireless Access Point and plug it into a spare port on your router/switch.
I'm not sure if the Wii uses 802.1b or 802.1g, but most access points these days should do both. |
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