wifi usb dongle, are they good? Options

[gay craig]

hi ya all well i have a new router for the net and my ds cant get wifi so i,l have to get a wifi usb dongle but are they any good then?plee help me as i am goin mad here,i need wifi on my ds for my games like pokemon and animal crossing,

[mikes]

umm so your wifi isn't compatible?

[ic1male]

Sorry, you've lost me. How is getting USB wifi going to make your Nintendo DS work online?

[Tiuri]

Sorry, you've lost me. How is getting USB wifi going to make your Nintendo DS work online?

If the new router doesn't have wireless (which I assume to be the case) he's probably trying to use the USB wifi dongle (connected to a PC that is connected to the router by cable) as a wifi access point???

[gay craig]

yes yes yes the laptop can go on net but net people said that router is on wap i think,and for ds to use it you need wap,but you can have both thats what they told me,so i,m hopeing to but a wifi usb dongle and it,l work like the old router did,
are these wifi usb dongles any good then?

[mikes]

I'm really confused.

Who's your internet with/suppliers of the router?

This post has been edited by mikes: Sep 9 2010, 07:50

[gay craig]

its with sky and its a netgear router and when the sky man cam round to install 2 sky boxs he said that the router is wifi,he lie!!!

[Sam Hain]

I'm really confused.

I understood "hi".

[mikes]

its with sky and its a netgear router and when the sky man cam round to install 2 sky boxs he said that the router is wifi,he lie!!!

I'm with sky and our router is fully wireless.

You need to search for your wirelessd as normal, it should find it, then select it and it pops up saying you need to use advance settings. Go to advance settings and do the process again. Enter your security key - on the base/back of your router and it should be fine. It's really quite simple. I hadn't set my DSi up for our new internet yet as I have just moved. Just set it up then and it took less than 2 minutes.

[gay craig]

its with sky and its a netgear router and when the sky man cam round to install 2 sky boxs he said that the router is wifi,he lie!!!

I'm with sky and our router is fully wireless.

You need to search for your wirelessd as normal, it should find it, then select it and it pops up saying you need to use advance settings. Go to advance settings and do the process again. Enter your security key - on the base/back of your router and it should be fine. It's really quite simple. I hadn't set my DSi up for our new internet yet as I have just moved. Just set it up then and it took less than 2 minutes.

it told me to do the advanced setup which i di but that is for the dsi shop channel but when i go on a game like pokemon well the wifi dont work,i try to search for the access point but there is no advanced setup for it,so i pluged in the old router cos wifi works on that but i get no net so had to plug in the new sky one,grrr,i am goin mad i need help here,

[ic1male]

I think you mentioned the problem in an earlier post, craig. Your router will be using WPA/WPA2 and the games made for Nintendo DS only worth with WEP. I was never willing to lower the security on my router so the DS never got online.

I'm not sure how you would set up a USB dongle as a bridge as I've never tried it.

[Sam Hain]

You're all so clever.
I want your babies.

[gay craig]

i am planing on buying the wifi usb dongle tomoz then
other people on a pokemon forum says that this works but dont mind the price,on games wesite it says they are £30 thats not too bad if the thing works ok,which i will be a happy lil bunny if it can work,
i hear that you have to have the laptop on then for the dongle to work then?

[ic1male]

Yes, the laptop will have to be on. Your DS will connect to the USB dongle and the laptop will then act as a bridge by connecting to your wireless router.

[gay craig]

Yes, the laptop will have to be on. Your DS will connect to the USB dongle and the laptop will then act as a bridge by connecting to your wireless router.

that is wot i want to hear,
i am so happy now that you said that it would work,weeeeeeeeeee wooooooo
now i can have my wifi back,

[ic1male]

Craig, it's not just plug in and off you go. You'll have to do a bit of Windows tinkering but I can't help as I've never tried it. Mikes knows, it's how he used to connect his Xbox.

[mikes]

I bridged the connections by plugging in my Xbox to my laptop and allowing them to "share" the internet connection being used by my laptop.

If you look on YouTube, searching for a "how to" for the dongle, and your specific problem and also include your operating system in the search, this should help you immensely. It's one of those things where, as much as we'd love to help you, specifics and the knowing what you need to do exactly are all down to what you have in terms of tech. So yes, youtube it.

[gay craig]

i,l just have to change the settings on new router then,cos sumone who works with pcs and other stuff said when you change the settings the laptops and wifi for ds will works,but sky which the router is with told me that they wont work both at same time,

[gay craig]

i have wifi me very very happy lil bunny
mum just changed settings on router to wep and laptops and wifi on dsi all work cos my mum took my brothers laptop sumwhere in town to get it fixed and they told her that you can change the settings on router to make it so you can have wifi on dsi as well as net on laptops then,so me happy

[Sam Hain]

Clever mum and how is she?