Is anyone else Wii U acting up?

[SvennoJ]

JazzB1987 said:

SvennoJ said:
Yes, sometimes online works, sometimes it doesn't. The wifi receiver in the WiiU sucks, any sort of disturbance and it craps out. I managed to 'fix' it by using mHotspot on my laptop. WiiU connects to the laptop. The laptop has no trouble connecting to the router.

This proves that the router is the problem.

What model is it?   If its a generic ISP router that might be the reason.



EDIT:

People with Nintendo devices  or tablets and smartphoned that have router problems should try to give those devices static IPs.

Not just normal static IPs but let the router find the device and check for its MAC adress and based on that give a static IP. (so you dont have to change the devices internet settings all the time when visiting other peoples houses and trying to access their internet)

This works quite well  because a ton of cheaper routers  go nuts when there is more than 3 or so devices that want to have IPs.  "static" MAC based adresses avoid this.

How does it prove the router is the problem? When I take the WiiU closer to the router there are no issues. My ps3 gets a low signal too in the same spot but still works. The wi-fi receiver in the WiiU is the weakest of all the devices I have.

I have a Linksys wrt610n router btw.