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Faxanadu on 28 April 2008
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NJ5 said:
Faxanadu said:

I would LOVE to. Problem: I am offline at home...

If someone can tell me how to easily connect the wii using vodafone data card on my laptop, I will be highly appreciative.


With that setup, I think your only possibility is to:

1- Buy a Wii LAN adapter.
2- Connect the Wii to the laptop with a network cable with your LAN adapter.
3- Set up Internet Connection Sharing on the laptop (it's very easy to do if you're using Windows).
4- Put your laptop's IP address as your gateway and DNS server on the Wii, which should enable it to use your laptop as the gateway to the internet.

I don't know how good those cards are for online gaming though, in the worst case you could get lots of lag. If you know someone who has a Wii LAN adapter you can borrow, test it that way.

PS: It doesn't work with WiFi because the Wii doesn't support ad-hoc wireless connections.

 


umm, sounds interesting, thanks. Only problem: work laptop so maybe they dont want me to mess too much.

Probably I will be walking around my appartment building asking if somwone got wireless internet - maybe they share for 5 buck a month or so. 



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