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Having come late to the party I finally succumbed and bought a Wii this weekend. I am having a ton of problems trying to connect to the internet wirelessly with the Speedtouch 585. Are there any tricks to getting the Wii to play nicely with the Speedtouch 585 ? I can get it to connect to download news and weather, but if I try to do a firmware upgrade or turn on WiiConnect the Wii will just crash. Now I'm sure it's just some setting somewhere, but I cannot make it the two devices play nicely together, I've tried going from WAP to WEP, turning off the firewall, adding the ports that the Wii needs, and countless other things.

 Please, if anyone had a Wii connected through a Speedtouch 585 could you tell me how, or what setting your WiFi is on ?

 Thanks

You don't say which version of the 585 you have. Since v7 is now called a Thomson TG585, I suspect you have v6?

Like you, I've finally succumbed and got a Wii. I connected an old BT Voyager USB wireless adaptor to the Wii, set my router IP address and security details on the Wii and was most surprised when it worked. (I was expecting it wouldn't as this adaptor was always temperamental on a PC.) I have wireless security set to WPA-PSK, WPA-PSK version is set to WPA+WPA2 on the TG585. The last setting isn't available on a v6 from memory.

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Fred

Yes I have the 585 V6, still have not been able to get it to connect without crashing the Wii. Thinking of buying a USB Wi-Fi dongle for my PC. I'm pretty sure the problem is with the 585 V6 and not the Wii, though of course I can't be sure :/

@Forgeman

Why are you using a USB wireless dongle?

I'm pretty sure that the Wii has wifi built into it, so chances are its using that, and ignoring the wi-fi dongle you've connected.

I have a Wii and it works fine on the internet. Previously this was with a Belkin wireless access point + a Speedtouch 536 v6
Now its using a Cisco 877. No problems with either one...
Can't remember if I had to do anything special to get it to work, but I don't think so. The router/wifi access point didnt require any special configuration.

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Kindest regards,

James Sweet
http://www.zen.co.uk

"Ah, just waiting to see who'd be the first one to spot that," as Captain Mainwaring would say!

Yes, I've now read the Wii manual after I'd written the above, which isn't really helpful for the original poster. Sorry about that.  

The only other thing I can suggest is checking the 585 firmware version. There are several around and it may help to update to the most recent version.

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Fred

I have a Wii and a ST585 at home and I also have similar issues with the wireless in spite of the two being less than 8 feet of one another and in line of sight. Mine does work however but it's intermittent and I'm quite convinced it's an issue with the Nintendo wireless hardware rather than the Speedtouch. You might try changing your wireless channel on the router as I get more success in the higher channels and I've read in the past that many people have issues on channel 1 IIRC so you might try avoiding that one altogether, once you have it online make sure you get the system update though my update took no less than 5 attempts.

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DS Nelson

Performance and Improvement Analyst

Zen Internet Business Support Unit