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[Christoff Yurievich]

CompUSA has the 54Mbps Wireless Travel Router on sale for only $9.99 after rebates. I checked www.nintendowifi.com and it lists this router as working with the DS. Anyone have one of these? does it work pretty well for you?

 

[Drensch]

Only if you have checked model and version buy it. Make sure the numbers match up. Otherwise Netgear has been real bad with Nintendowifi.

 

[clearacell]

no, but my Netgear WGT624 v3 works perfectly

 

[bumpkin]

no, but my Netgear WGT624 v3 works perfectly

You and I need to talk, because I've had no such luck with my v3.

 

[DIrtyWeasel]

My Netgear mr814v3 works fine after setting it up manually.

 

[nathkenn]

You and I need to talk, because I've had no such luck with my v3.

mine works as well, though it's a lousy ass router.

 

[Swordian]

no, but my Netgear WGT624 v3 works perfectly

How did you make it work? I can connect to WFC easily enough, but I rarely connect to people anymore.

 

[bumpkin]

mine works as well, though it's a lousy ass router.

See, I can't seem to make it work. I can connect to WFC spottily at best, and can't connect to friends at all without jumping through hoops. What's the trick?

 

[TheDuce22]

no, but my Netgear WGT624 v3 works perfectly

I also have this router and it works fine.

 

[nathkenn]

See, I can't seem to make it work. I can connect to WFC spottily at best, and can't connect to friends at all without jumping through hoops. What's the trick?

Have you got the latest firmware and drivers?
I didn't really do anything special just set the mac address and wep etc and it worked just fine.

 

[bumpkin]

Have you got the latest firmware and drivers?
I didn't really do anything special just set the mac address and wep etc and it worked just fine.

I updated the firmware... I'm now using version 1.0.128_1.0.1. I added the MAC address to my access control list and set my WEP key to 'Open System' based off some info I found online. As I said, I can connect to the WFC and play like regional/worldwide races with little difficulty -- once I actually get connected -- but I can't connect to any friends.

Is there anything I missed that I need to do or should try?

 

[nathkenn]

I updated the firmware... I'm now using version 1.0.128_1.0.1. I added the MAC address to my access control list and set my WEP key to 'Open System' based off some info I found online. As I said, I can connect to the WFC and play like regional/worldwide races with little difficulty -- once I actually get connected -- but I can't connect to any friends.

Is there anything I missed that I need to do or should try?

wish I could help :\
next time I give it a try, I'll check things out and see if there are any special settings that might be making it work.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

I love simplicity. I got it anyway and hooked it up today at my brother-in-law's house (don't have broadband here yet - it's not even offered and I only live 5 minutes away from him). So simple. I connected the ethernet cable to the router, connected the power cord to the wall, powered on the DS and was rocking heads in Mario Kart in under 5 minutes. No set-up in the computer at all, just boom.

quick question - this router is hooked into another wired router. Can anyone access the other computers or are they ok? (and I don't care about anyone stealing the bandwidth as it's not mine to be stolen.)

 

[bumpkin]

Well, to any of you who were having the problems I was having, my advice; go out and buy a new router. The Linksys WRT54G works like a charm with two little adjustments (you just gotta change two transmission rate settings).

NetGear should be ashamed of themselves for basically ignoring the issue.

 

[TheDuce22]

I hope that Linksys you got isnt a v5 because if it is its complete garbage. I had one before I was forced to return it because it was insanely slow over wireless. It couldnt stream video to my xbox and DOA 4 was unplayable online.

 

[The Faceless Master]

Well, to any of you who were having the problems I was having, my advice; go out and buy a new router. The Linksys WRT54G works like a charm with two little adjustments (you just gotta change two transmission rate settings).

NetGear should be ashamed of themselves for basically ignoring the issue.

or maybe Nintendo should be ashamed for having code that doesn't work properly?

why is the DS the only thing that has issues with anything?

anyway, after a manual setup, Nintendo Wifi works fine with my WGU624

 

[bumpkin]

or maybe Nintendo should be ashamed for having code that doesn't work properly?

why is the DS the only thing that has issues with anything?

anyway, after a manual setup, Nintendo Wifi works fine with my WGU624

And that's not surprising, as the WGU624 has a five-star compatibility rating on nintendowifi.com. The WGT624 version 3, however, does not, and NetGear seems to be totally ignoring the issue (view the support thread here, and notice the lack of any response from NG). I'll bet you with a quick and dirty firmware update, it would work fine, but they're never going to bother. What pisses me off the most is I basically wasted 2-3 hours of my time on the phone with them for useless suggestions.

Let's not forget that I submitted a support ticket, after their suggestions didn't cut it, and it was supposedly sent to a senior engineer; that was the last I heard of it, and that was over a week ago.

That's why I gave them the finger, and will be advising friends and family against purchasing their products in the future. Their support sucks. Period.

 

[Dsal]

I got my DS to work with my incompatible Netgear router by setting a static IP for the DS and making that the DMZ. I still get dropped connections occasionally, but it's hard to know whether that's from the router or not. Very annoying for Animal Crossing :|

 

[bumpkin]

I got my DS to work with my incompatible Netgear router by setting a static IP for the DS and making that the DMZ.

And that was an interum solution I tried, but it got annoying having to ask all of my friends to set their DS'es into DMZ with static IP's; that was the only way I could connect to any friends in Mario Kart DS.

 

[Dsal]

And that was an interum solution I tried, but it got annoying having to ask all of my friends to set their DS'es into DMZ with static IP's; that was the only way I could connect to any friends in Mario Kart DS.

Hmm, I'm able to connect to others okay regardless of whether they do the DMZ thing or not.

 

[Drensch]

Well, to any of you who were having the problems I was having, my advice; go out and buy a new router.

That's what I did. No problems now.

or maybe Nintendo should be ashamed for having code that doesn't work properly?

It's not nintendo. Search for netgear and gaming. Netgear's routers are a nightmare for gaming of any kind-pc, xbox, gcn, ps2 ds, psp. The popularity of the ds online has just exposed the problem.