So I'm headed out of town for a long business trip and was going to bring the wii with me.
I have a Sprint aircard and was trying to set up an ad hoc network to connect the wii over the Vista laptop's Sprint connection. I've found several forums threads that never really got this working for others. I create the adhoc network, assign it a name and passphrase, enable ICS, and the wii recognizes it and asks for the passphrase, but won't connect. I've tried disabling all firewalls, wireless security but still nothing.
I have a spare Linksys 54g router I could bring and hard wire to the laptop to serve as an access point that way, but I don't know how to configure it so it knows to use the laptop's connection and not look for the empty internet port (I assume I connect it via a port # and not the Internet port?).
Anyone have luck with an adhoc network solution (which is preferable so I don't have to bring the router), or anyone know where directions are for appropriately configuring the router.
I really appreciate any help....been working on this for a couple of hours now.
Anyone have any luck connecting a wii over an adhoc network, or it impossible?
Do you have a windows mobile phone with Wi-Fi?
If so I've had lots of success with a program called "Mobile Wi-Fi Router"
That's about all I have to offer, don't have any experience with sharing air card connection.
As an IT guy who messes around with this stuff all the time I say "Good Luck" ATT cards are slow as all hell. If you are in a highly populated 3G area be prepared to be bumped to Edge to conserve tower bandwidth. Or if you aren't in 3G you have no chance.
3G= 1000kbps maybe
Edge = 90kbps
1. It's not fast enough
2. It probably cant forward ports like a router can.
I'd just give up. Even if it works it'll be slow as the redskins offense
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As for using the LInksys router.....where would your internet source be coming from?
Thanks for the replies.
I'm running a Sprint EVDO card and I get 1.5Mbs down which works great for streaming voice/video comms over Skype so I assumed it would work well enough for conduit mp.
I worked on this a lot last night, and it appears the limitation is the Wii itself which is not able to connect over ad-hoc networks. Nintendo sells a USB adapter that allows it to do so, but it's not sold anymore.
I then tried to set up ControlAP to create a hotspot, but I couldn't get that fully working. I could demo it on my laptop, and run through the internet proxy and see the welcome screen, but I couldn't get it outputted through the wireless G for the Wii to find.
I brought a Linksys WRTG router I could connect through the laptop, using the Sprint connection as the internet source, if anyone knows how to do that.