hey great article but im not as tech savvy. I am looking for a wireless router as I have already been caught with one that doesnt do what i need. I bought a belkin F5D7230-4v4000 specifically for the kids to use nintendo wii and ps3 i then find that in the fine print the v 4000 doesnt work with nintendo but the older v2000 is recommended ...even the guy in the shop had no idea. Now i am going to buy another router and well i have no idea what to go for that is going to be compatible. I would have thought 802.11 would mean anything with 802.11 would work but no it doesnt.
Any suggestions...small 2 story house, computer up stairs,,looking for all round compatibility with Wii and Ps3 when it comes out in March.
Ben
· 3 years ago
Wow, I was actually quite stunned when I read that your router was incompatible with the Wii. But then some digging took me to Nintendo's 'router compatibility page'. It's crazy to think that they don't fully support the basic 802.11g standard?
I'd imagine picking any compatible router from that Nintendo list would do the trick. I'd hope the PS3 was fully compatible with anything!
dalas v
· 3 years ago
Make sure you have B/G mixed mode enabled on your routers to get the Wii working. The Wii (currently) only works with B.
GC
· 3 years ago
I had problems with my wireless router/access point and the Wii. It was slow as christmas and it wouldn't connect to the store half the time. I moved my Wii all around and closer to the router to no avail.
The solution was changing my wireless from channel 6 to channel 11. After I did that the Wii's connection is super fast. I don't understand why all my other wireless devices (mac, laptop, etc) worked perfect on channel 6 but the Wii wouldn't.
GC
· 3 years ago
BTW I see somesone said the Wii is only wireless B. This isn't true - check out this site about upgrading the Wii's antenna:
i'm havin wicked probs with my adsl ap belkin with 1 aerial the only tech page i found for config was in php...? any help its stoopid br model not listed on www. need to config & p/fwd
jj
· 2 years ago
i'm havin wicked probs with my adsl ap belkin with 1 aerial the only tech page i found for config was in php...? any help its stoopid br model not listed on www. need to config & p/fwd ps loving the humor of this site, uk.
Steve
· 2 years ago
The WRT54GL is painfully slow with peer-to-peer. Warner Cable checked the line 3 times. Then I plugged in my old $30 netgear router and all the problems went away. I could actually surf AND upload 10k with Azureus.
Turns out this is a known problem with this router (per the Azureus wiki). You need to keep global connections below 200 using either DD-WRT or settings in Azureus itself. I haven't tested it yet, but hopefully this saves someone some grief.
Ben
· 2 years ago
Steve, you need to upgrade to an open source firmware like Tomato or DD-WRT. I have no issues running 500+ global connections with my 54GL
Neur
· 2 years ago
Ben I have a 54GL also, have problems with web pages not completing or taking a long time to complete. Also email that has web images take some time to complete , like ads from Sears etc.... Question , will an upgrade to third party software fix this problem? My dl speed is 7.3 mb but there seems to be a log jam at the router. All the problems are gone if I connect my TW modem directly to the pc....thanks
Ben
· 2 years ago
Upgrading the 54GL will almost certainly fix the problem. The stock firmware is terrible. I recommend the Tomato firmware.
Neur
· 2 years ago
Ben, Not to beat a dead horse but if something goes wrong with the upgrade to tomato firmware can I go back to the old linksys firmware in an emergency???
Ben
· 2 years ago
I believe so. The Tomato firmware has an upgrade page, and I think you can just upload the latest default firmware there.
At the moment I'm using WRT54GL with dd-wrt latest firmware, and I still have problems using P2P. After I start using P2P programs, 5 minutes later I just can't do any operation that uses internet. The pages just don't respond, and it looks like utorrent is using all internet available. Do you have any idea what might be the problem? I already deactivated UPNP and redirected the ports utorrent is using.
P.S - Sorry for my crappy english
kaz
· 1 year ago
hey Andre, are u still having problem with slow down?
Gene P.
· 1 year ago
Ben, I just got a WRT54GL and upgraded to the DD-WRT version 23 standard. I was wondering where you can change the NAT table settings and the NAT timeout like you described.
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Any suggestions...small 2 story house, computer up stairs,,looking for all round compatibility with Wii and Ps3 when it comes out in March.
I'd imagine picking any compatible router from that Nintendo list would do the trick. I'd hope the PS3 was fully compatible with anything!
The solution was changing my wireless from channel 6 to channel 11. After I did that the Wii's connection is super fast. I don't understand why all my other wireless devices (mac, laptop, etc) worked perfect on channel 6 but the Wii wouldn't.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=...
need to config & p/fwd
need to config & p/fwd
ps loving the humor of this site, uk.
Turns out this is a known problem with this router (per the Azureus wiki). You need to keep global connections below 200 using either DD-WRT or settings in Azureus itself. I haven't tested it yet, but hopefully this saves someone some grief.
At the moment I'm using WRT54GL with dd-wrt latest firmware, and I still have problems using P2P. After I start using P2P programs, 5 minutes later I just can't do any operation that uses internet. The pages just don't respond, and it looks like utorrent is using all internet available.
Do you have any idea what might be the problem?
I already deactivated UPNP and redirected the ports utorrent is using.
P.S - Sorry for my crappy english