Conecting to wireless router from Nintendo DS

[Mthales]

Has anyone here tried to connect a Nintendo DS to their wireless router?

I tried this and failed even though other devices connect wirelessly no problem and the router detected the DS because it listed it's MAC address in it's active devices list.

M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.

 

[Sinlaeshel]

I, too, am having issues connecting to Nintendo WiFi through my wireless router.

I had no problems assigning a static IP to my DS's MAC address, and logs confirm that my DS does connect to the router and get the IP I've told the router to assign to it. However, when I test the connection on my DS, the error it reports is that it could connect to the router, but, not through to Nintendo WiFi from there.

I tried unblocking all the ports that Nintendo WiFi recommended, and fowarded them to my DS's address (Forget which ports offhand, there was about 6 TCP ones, and it wanted ALL the UDP ports unblocked too), but, to no avail. I even tried putting my Nintendo DS's IP into the DMZ (De-militarized zone), with no change to the symptoms.

I've contacted D-Link about the issue (My router is a DI-524). Hopefully they will have some solutions for me. If not, I've read instances of people whining at Nintendo about their router not connecting, and rather than investigate the issue, Nintendo just sent them a free USB transmitter to do the job. Perhaps this will be my next course of action

 

[Mthales]

Thanks for the additional info - sounds like you got further than I did since your DS actually connected to your router. I hope you get some help from D-Link.

I've borrowed myself another router to try and if that doesn't work maybe I'll try whining at Nintendo.

M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.

 

[Sinlaeshel]

Update:

The D-Link representative suggested I update my firmware (Why didn't I think of this?). My DI-524 RevC was using version 3.04c. Updating to version 3.20 seemed to fix my problem, I can now connect to Nintendo WFC seemingly without any issues.

 

[Mthales]

That is really great to hear - and updating the firmware is somthing I'll look at as well. I've not had opertunity to try my alternative router yet but I hope to see you in online games soon.

M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.

 

[Mthales]

I just wanted to let you know that similar to your situation I updated the firmware on my router and can now connect successfully.
Just in case anyone else is having the same problems my router is a Netgear DG(something something) that is actually mentioned on the Nintendo WiFi help site.

Thanks
M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.