Wii Lan Adapters

[mailman187666]

for everyone who wants to go online with their Wii but doesn't have a wireless network, the wii lan adapters are out now. But of course they are fucking sold out everywhere. All I wanted to do was go to the store, buy one, go home, connect online and have fun. Now I can't. I hate that. Make enough for everyone you assholes.

[FAN8228]

That is absolutely outrageous!! Why would they not produce enough for everyone? Something needs to be done about this!! All they care about is hyping shit up to make a bunch of money!!

[jajaja]

That they dont manage to produce enough console is one thing, but that they dont manage to produce enough of this little thing suprises me. Maybe they thought it wasnt that demanding tho so they didnt make enough adapters to start with.

[Oobgarm]

It's because they want you to use WiFi.

I got one of the USB dongles for the DS and it works perfectly with the Wii.

[dcescott]

Just get a Dlink 2310, 50 bucks. Share the wifi in the house!
It's a G+
How much is the Lan?

[jajaja]

It's because they want you to use WiFi.

Why? One of them adaptors probly cost like $2 to make and they sell it for $20. They make money on them atleast so i dont see why they would care if people uses WiFi or not, its all about the money anyway.

[dcescott]

Sure, before wholesale it is 2 bucks. Then you factor when the product exchanges hands several times, shipping overseas, pay for the Nintendo name and so on... Consumers are screwed if you can't get around the middlemen.

[jajaja]

Sure, before wholesale it is 2 bucks. Then you factor when the product exchanges hands several times, shipping overseas, pay for the Nintendo name and so on... Consumers are screwed if you can't get around the middlemen.

Doesnt matter how much it is, thing is that they make money on selling it so why shouldnt they make enough to fill the demand if they make money on each unit sold?

[FAN8228]

Doesnt matter how much it is, thing is that they make money on selling it so why shouldnt they make enough to fill the demand if they make money on each unit sold?
exactly. They make money off of it no matter what. Someone dropped the ball on this, heads should roll!!

[mailman187666]

I just decided to order one off the nintendo website. It was $31.50 with shipping and tax. At least that way I'll save on driving around and calling store associates that don't know what the hell I'm trying to tell them. Nintendo has to step it up with shipping stuff out. I'm starting to not like the word limited supply (not to be confused with limited edition). Did anybody know that you could order S-video cables for SNES from the nintendo website too? I didn't know about that. You can also order old instruction manuals for old NES games but it says that "the instructions may be photo copies". has anybody ordered instructions and had them be originals? They also got all the spare parts and pieces for the wii system...even remote battery covers for $1.00 and packs of spare wii game cases for a few bucks. Not bad, not bad.

[FAN8228]

I just decided to order one off the nintendo website. It was $31.50 with shipping and tax. At least that way I'll save on driving around and calling store associates that don't know what the hell I'm trying to tell them. Nintendo has to step it up with shipping stuff out. I'm starting to not like the word limited supply (not to be confused with limited edition). Did anybody know that you could order S-video cables for SNES from the nintendo website too? I didn't know about that. You can also order old instruction manuals for old NES games but it says that "the instructions may be photo copies". has anybody ordered instructions and had them be originals? They also got all the spare parts and pieces for the wii system...even remote battery covers for $1.00 and packs of spare wii game cases for a few bucks. Not bad, not bad.

so you gave in to the darkside...

I think it's just extremely inconvenient for us the consumer to have to resort to ordering online, pay for shipping, and then wait additional time that could be spent gaming online!!

Those instructions for NES games for $1 sound tasty. If they are originals I would much rather get a few of those then spend those same few bucks on some original snackers. LOL

[rbudrick]

Just get a wireless router. Shit. Ya cheap bastids. You will thank me and yourselves later. IBesides, instead of buying a dongle for every damn system that doesn't have an ethernet connection, you are better off buying one wirless router and being done with it.

-Rob

[FAN8228]

Just get a wireless router. Shit. Ya cheap bastids. You will thank me and yourselves later. IBesides, instead of buying a dongle for every damn system that doesn't have an ethernet connection, you are better off buying one wirless router and being done with it.

-Rob

mailman likes the clutter and the extra wires... he thinks it's "old school" that way LOL

[mailman187666]

I like having the extra wires in case people like FAN8228 come around and I can strangle him with them J/K. I've tried wireless with everything and for some reason it doesn't work well for anybody at my house for anything we have. So we have to resort to going old school.

[FAN8228]

I like having the extra wires in case people like FAN8228 come around and I can strangle him with them J/K. I've tried wireless with everything and for some reason it doesn't work well for anybody at my house for anything we have. So we have to resort to going old school.

They come in handy for when I have to whip your GF... I mean for when YOU have to whip your GF LOL

[mailman187666]

its the only way sometimes, its the only way.

[FAN8228]

its the only way sometimes, its the only way.

so seriously back on topic. In the end you only paid about $1.50 more than what you would have paid in a store assuming it was going to be $29.99. I think the part that bothers me is that you have to wait an additional few days to get it, or the fact that the Wii doesn't have a built in LAN port.

[Cryomancer]

I want one as my house is terrible at wirelss signals and there's tons of interference. Wifi? 2.4 ghz. Cordless phone? 2.4 ghz. wireless guitar? 2.4ghz. and so on. My wii will stay online for labout 2 minutes until suddently the browser locks up and i have to hard reset the thing. Wired for me please.

[kaedesdisciple]

I want one as my house is terrible at wirelss signals and there's tons of interference. Wifi? 2.4 ghz. Cordless phone? 2.4 ghz. wireless guitar? 2.4ghz. and so on. My wii will stay online for labout 2 minutes until suddently the browser locks up and i have to hard reset the thing. Wired for me please.

I have 2.4 GHz devices running all over my house and my b/g wireless network containing 2 pcs, 2 macs (one sharing with an xbox) and my psp runs fine, after I tuned into the right channel that is. Full signal for the compys and never a drop or lag on live.

[rbudrick]

I have a shitload of 2.4ghz crap around my house and have 0 problems.

BTW, the Wii wifi connection is pretty darn strong. At my gf's house we are able to pick up some neighbor's connection with it that that her notebook and the PSP can't even touch. So, for those who say their walls are made of kryptonite or something, Wii should work great anyway.

-Rob

[roushimsx]

I want one as my house is terrible at wirelss signals and there's tons of interference. Wifi? 2.4 ghz. Cordless phone? 2.4 ghz. wireless guitar? 2.4ghz. and so on. My wii will stay online for labout 2 minutes until suddently the browser locks up and i have to hard reset the thing. Wired for me please.

Sounds like you need to adjust the channels of your devices.

In my house I set up a nice little wireless network with a Buffalo G54S in the living room that I hook the consoles up to and then connect to the office Buffalo G54S via WDS. It's so. damn. nice.

I used to use WRT54Gs from Linksys, but one of them burned out and I had to replace it...wound up ditching Linksys entirely since Buffalo's products supported WDS out of the box, were cheap as hell ($45 for a 4 port router / AP that supported WDS without any third party firmware? Yes, please), and were pretty dang stable (something I was initially worried about the routers not being since I'd never heard of them before).

Seriously, screw paying $30+ for a single device proprietary ethernet connection when you can shell out just a few more bucks and get a fully functional 4 port wireless router that does a hell of a lot more.

[dcescott]

About the wii's wifi strength... I was able to email some friends off my neighbor's wireless router before I got a 2310 dlink. Lan? pffffft!!
A 30 dollar adapter plus a pain to wire it from your wired router whereever the wii is in the house, splurge the extra 20 and wifi the house.

[shertz]

Dosent the LAN adapter have a faster transfer rate then WIFI? I am thinking about getting the LAN since my Wii has a hard time connecting to my d-link =-(

[dcescott]

Any benchmark comparisons?
At my house,
the wii is in the front, my ds and psp need the wifi and the computer is in the "study" area with the rest of my games.
As long as it downloads a good VC title. I'm kosher. Weather & News? The news is cool but the weather isn't too accurate unless you are checking at noon and midnight.

[-hellvin-]

We got in about three at my store. I picked one up and just a few days later the price went up to 30 bucks! It was 20 when I got it, and discounted to 16 for employees. It's kinda funny though...I have a lan adapter to FINALLY have a good connection, but the wireless connection I'm stealing works PERFECT for about 2 weeks now. I hate that I can't connect to my own goddamn wireless network even with all the proper security setup and everything.

[mailman187666]

I just got the LAN adapter in the mail last night and suprise suprise, I can't get it to work. I'm not to good with computer termonology, but the wii LAN adapter does not allow you to connect if you are using a PPPoE connection. Of course thats what I have. Not only that but wireless is not connecting at my house either. I don't know if I can even go online with the wii now. $31.50 down the tube for that stupid adapter that I would have never known wouldn't work unless I had read the instruction manual for it. Damn it