wtf? the wii has no ethernet port?

[jlauro]

TWRoO said:

jlauro said:

TWRoO said:

jlauro said:
Wireless is ok, but personally I prefer USB lan adapter. Better response time, and the wireless lan overlaps with blue tooth, so if you have a bunch of wii remotes (or wii classic connected to wii remotes) doing on line they interfere a little with each other.

But wireless internet uses radio waves doesn't it?

 

 

Exactly, just like bluetooth.  Actually not just like bluetooth, as bluetooth hops away and tries again, and wi-fi slows down and tries again when there is loss.

The single 22 MHz-wide Wi-Fi channel occupies the same frequency space as 22 of the 79 Bluetooth channels which are 1 MHz wide. When a Bluetooth transmission occurs on a frequency that lies within the frequency space occupied by a simultaneous Wi-Fi transmission, some level of interference can occur, causing problems for both lag in games and unresponsive controllers.

As there is measurable slowdown using a wireless connection compared to wired ethernet when the wii remotes are idle, just think how much worse it is when playing a game and moving the the wiiremotes around transmitting all that data over overlapping channels.

Well I thought bluetooth was microwaves (as in smaller wavelength than radio) but it seems if they both cross paths then WiFi must be at the very small end of the radiowaves.

 

Wifi also uses microwaves.  The microwave range includes ultra-high frequency (UHF) (0.3–3 GHz), super high frequency (SHF) (3–30 GHz), and extremely high frequency (EHF) (30–300 GHz) signals.   The 2.4 Ghz shared by both Bluetooth and Wifi are all relatively close.