KennyLinder
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Might do some distance tests tomorrow in my house. It gets choppy in the next room though.
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I live in a small terrace house in suburbian London, and I can't use my Wii U gamepad in my upstairs bedroom. I'm at the front of the house, and the Wii U is set up in my downstairs living room at the back of the house. I'd say diagonally my bedroom is about 5 metres away from the Wii U? Must be the walls and the floorboards getting in the way. I'll do a proper walkthrough of my house with the gamepad tomorrow.
Clay Davis
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i didn't think of screen protectors. is the screen prone to scratching? I don't use a protector on my 3ds...
AkimbO_Arcana
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Please quote your pic!
Edit: Ninja'd
way to slow for ma edit!
Club Nintendo SNES classic controller?
of course! no idea how it plummed into the pic
Dwight Schrute
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Damn, updating at... 50 octets/s
W. T. F.
W. T. F.
OrangeYouGlad
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For me I've noticed the first wave represents the popularity of the game and then a second wave comes in to represent other Miis and their messages. The time between was a couple minutes or less.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Bought my WiiU last night at Australian midnight launch, currently pissed off about network connectivity issues with it. The internet test reports that it can connect (gets a tick for both network and internet) but I keep getting Error Code 105-4011 when I attempt to update, and obviously the online apps don't work until I update so I can't test them to see if it's a system wide problem or just an update-server problem.
I tried manually setting my IP to a free one in my home network's range (10.0.0.21), but the WiiU INSISTS that "your IP address is wrong". Well fuck you too, buddy. Could the fact that the router is not using 192.0.0.X range be causing the WiiU to get confused? I don't want to change a home network setting to fix that until I'm sure because of potential problems with manually assigned IPs there might be on our network (got like 5 other people using it). The Nintendo website reports that the server is functioning as normal.
I tried manually setting my IP to a free one in my home network's range (10.0.0.21), but the WiiU INSISTS that "your IP address is wrong". Well fuck you too, buddy. Could the fact that the router is not using 192.0.0.X range be causing the WiiU to get confused? I don't want to change a home network setting to fix that until I'm sure because of potential problems with manually assigned IPs there might be on our network (got like 5 other people using it). The Nintendo website reports that the server is functioning as normal.
Went to GameStop on a whim and they had a deluxe bundle left so I snagged it for my kids Xmas gift. Through a disagreement with time warner, I've cancelled my internet out of principle. Will I need to do the day one update before I can play games on it? Or is the update on any particular game like SMBWU?
ThoseDeafMutes
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The update is for internet applications. You can play SMBWU, ZombiU etc without the update. But you can't use web browser, youtube channel etc.
Target's around me have the Deluxe but they are holding them until Sunday. :\
The worst torture.
there is not even a nice manual to look at.... blech!....the worldmap is nice though.
edit:
i'm just gonna assume you a MH fan? we totally need to add each other for future monster slaying!
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
On a train to collect my Wii Puu.
Smiles and Cries
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nice learned something new! Looks like the counts are all lower new posts but NintendoLand seems to be merged with US unless you guys have been NintendoLand posting like crazy it is the only on that matches US numbers of user posts
Freezie KO
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Smiles and Cries
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SAVE YOUR MONEY! DAT CPUU
did ya say Wii Poo? *PM to Evilore sent*
godspeed bro! may the train arrive on time!
I think I can help you with that, and the answer is yes, it does fares decently as long as it isn't between floors
I have it in my bedroom upstairs, and I can take it to the bathroom, both bedrooms next to mine and kitchen too (which is right below my bedroom), but other than that it has big problems reaching anything else in my floor below, the living room is a big NO for example, and that's just like 3 meters away. The moment I start walking down the staircase the signal start to get lost.
Clay Davis
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mine isn't doing one for the wii u, but the last one I went to was for the playstation 3 and they opened the doors 15 minutes before midnight to allow people to browse.
I think I can help you with that, and the answer is yes, it does fares decently as long as it isn't between floors
I have it in my bedroom upstairs, and I can take it to the bathroom, both bedrooms next to mine and kitchen too (which is right below my bedroom), but other than that it has big problems reaching anything else in my floor below, the living room is a big NO for example, and that's just like 3 meters away. The moment I start walking down the staircase the signal start to get lost.
is the range of the gamepad the same as the range of your wireless network? I can get wireless through my house and seeing as the gamepad uses a similar method to communicate with the wii u, I thought the same might apply.
KennyLinder
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Wish I knew how. Flickr?
Cool thanks! I figured as much. I'll probably put my pride aside and crawl back to time warner and get my internet again because I want to play with miiverse.
Resistance100
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CVG just tweeted the line. Doesn't seem that big but its still early and freezing i guess.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Pic from Twitter feed. (I'm too much of a wuss to brave the outside cold.) At least it's clear. "New console with a new controller"
Gucci Messiah
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Flickr is fine, I'd love to see everyone's pickups
As long as you're on the same floor, yeah it's very good, but once you take it down/up that's when it's not as good as my wireless network.
Gianni Merryman
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CVG just tweeted the line. Doesn't seem that big but its still early and freezing i guess.
Is that Oxford street HMV giving two Wii U games for free to first 100 buyers?
How many people are already in line there?
Clay Davis
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I can live with that. I would have liked to use it everywhere, but that was always an unrealistic expectation...at least until signal boosters are released. thanks for the feedback. I won't be as disappointed now that I know what the range is likely to be.
Yep. It seems that Nintendo Land is worldwide. If you select Japan, you can also see Nintendo Land, although the Wii U is not yet out there.
Baconsammy
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The way I currently have it set up is that the Wii U console is plugged into an outlet in my office, which is on the same floor as my living room about 25 feet and one wall away. Connection to the pad is terrible. If I move slightly the connection stutters or goes out until I stop moving the pad. My bedroom is in the room directly above the office and the signal is perfect up there.
TheMagician
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It's not the size that matters.
Smiles and Cries
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yup yup awesome stuff. I will be trolling any community that has a game I don't have in the US with Localization Begging MUHAHAHAHA!
Already posted in the Puddle Community!
Yep. Going to my local Game in Chichester. They're opening at half eleven, but not selling any units til 12.
gahhh. The guy in GAME told me when they'd open, but I couldn't remember if he said half ten or half eleven! Guess its the later one, which sucks as I have lots to trade in.
Resistance100
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Has anyone managed to get their Club Nintendo points to work yet?
Clay Davis
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it'll probably be half eleven or quarter to but likely the former. I wouldn't worry, they can't sell anything before midnight, so you have thirty minutes to sort out any trades you have unless lots of people come along with stuff to trade in.
good luck. I had a horrible time at the ps3 midnight launch. the group of people was just awful, maybe / hopefully you'll be more lucky.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Yeah that's just a repost of the official Nintendo page on the error code.
I did fix it in the end though, by changing my wireless setup a bit so that the modem was putting out wireless directly and I connected through that (instead of daisy chaining through a second wireless router). Now I've got two wireless connections in my home, both of which are the exact same network , but ehh... it works. We had it set up the old way because I had two modems with 4 ports each, but we needed 6 ethernet ports to reach every bedroom room in the house.
Wierd part is that my Wii and 3DS had no issues connecting on old setup, while the WiiU couldn't handle it. Sigh.
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