I have a Nintendo DS Lite and no Wi-Fi in my home. I'm trying to get my Friend Code for my Pokemon Platinum game. What I did was go into the cafeteria at my college where it says on the wall "Wi-Fi Hot Spot" and I was still not able to get my Friend Code because it didn't work. It said the same thing on my DS game which was this: "No compatible access point in range. Check your connection settings and try again."

What do I do? Please help (if you can)!

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well, first off, if you don't have anywhere you can play on wifi I don't know why you need your code. But whatever.

Anyways, not every wifi access point is created equal. On my home setup I had to switch my Wifi to 2mbps only for it to work with my DS. So maybe the access point you were trying to use was incompatible. There isn't much you can do in this situation, as I'm sure petitioning them to change the Wifi just so you can play DS will get you nowhere

So, assuming you don't actually want to play in the cafeteria, go wherever you will be playing (say a friends house) and try using their router. Since it is in their house, if you can't connect go to this page - http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/wfc/en_na/ds/routerInfo.jsp - and then it will tell you how you need to have the router set up. (how I figured out my router had to be set to 2Mbps)

nordlead said: well, first off, if you don't have anywhere you can play on wifi I don't know why you need your code. But whatever. Anyways, not every wifi access point is created equal. On my home setup I had to switch my Wifi to 2mbps only for it to work with my DS. So maybe the access point you were trying to use was incompatible. There isn't much you can do in this situation, as I'm sure petitioning them to change the Wifi just so you can play DS will get you nowhere So, assuming you don't actually want to play in the cafeteria, go wherever you will be playing (say a friends house) and try using their router. Since it is in their house, if you can't connect go to this page - http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/wfc/en_na/ds/routerInfo.jsp - and then it will tell you how you need to have the router set up. (how I figured out my router had to be set to 2Mbps)

Well, you see... Everyone else is able to get on Wi-Fi because they have a laptop which can access the internet (via Google, MSN, ect.). PSPs and most cell phones also have this ability. I'm the only one with a DS (which, as far as I know, cannot access the internet) so far. I talked with some of the people at the college and they said that there was a school code/password and that if I go somewhere that doesn't require a code/password, the connection might work. In other words, they were saying that you have to be able to access the internet to type in the code/password.

If there is actually a way that I can access the internet with my DS, please let me know. From the menu title of my Pokemon game, my DS found the Wi-Fi connection and I saved it to one of the three files, but when I tested the connection, it failed.

I too had to switch my router to 2mbps to get my DS to connect to it.
I think in your situation it's best to get one of those usb dongles that allow your computer to send the signal for the DS, that way you'll also be able to use it from home.

oh, well I should of thought of that myself, as my school network had the same thing, but I didn't use it often.

Yes, you can access internet on your DS, but you'd have to buy the Internet Browser cart which isn't exactly cheap, and it also wouldn't work cause you'd have to pop it out

I have a router at home but no adapter to go with it. I can't have Wi-Fi without it.

Does this mean I would have to be able to type the code/password (in which a keyboard is needed)?

Could it be different brands of routers cause problems?
I have a Linksys and have never had any DS problems -- I even have used the browser card to kindof serf the web.

Mike from Morgantown