I've now set up my DS to work on two separate wifi networks. My office connection was cake, all I had to do was have the DS find the network, then I typed in our office WEP security key which is 325gi8... just kidding. After that I was able to play against opponents across the region via wifi.
My home network was a bit tougher. I tried to follow the same procedures as at work, but when I went to test the connection I got an error code. The process went something like this:
- Typed in the wrong WEP security code. 2 min
- Couldn't remember my WEP key for home. 3 min
- Had to access my wifi router's admin page to find out WEP key. Couldn't remember the url for that. 2 min
- Found the URL, couldn't remember username and password. Figured it out after 5 tries. 2 min
- Found WEP key, still got error (invalid IP number). Thought it would be great if the DS had a "renew IP address" option like my PC. Often times it helps when the PC gets a bad IP number. 5 min
- Scratched my head. 1 min
- Hopped on Nintendo's wifi site to enter in the error code, which was tough to understand and didn't help me out. 2 min
- Found the "Router Config Support" page on Nintendo Wifi and easily located my router and found that it doesn't support Dynamic IP. Bummer since it's a pretty common Netgear. 1 min
- Manually configured the DS to grab a static IP address. Also added a static IP to my router table for the MAC address of the DS. 1 min
- Still errors, "settings are not complete"... Struggled, and discovered that I also needed to include a primary DNS. Where can I find that? Struggled some more and finally found it on my PC. 10 min
- Success!! Total time was: 29 minutes, but now I'm set.
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