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Wifi gaming using dial up? Is it possible?
Topic Started: Nov 17 2007, 02:34 AM (222 Views)
RainbowWarrior64
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Okay, so I'm on a dial up connection and I've got a Wii and a DS. Thing that sucks is that I can't use the Nintendo Wi-fi connection because I have a wired dial up connection. I'm wondering if it's possible to connect to the Wi-fi connection using the Buffalo Gaming Access Point and connecting it to a wireless router. Do I actually need an active internet connection for this to work?


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Meltdown
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If you play online with a dial-up connection you should be shot. You'd be able to connect but you'll lag everyone else out of the game and everyone will hate you.
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Not possible. If you live in the US, your better off getting DSL anyway as in most cases its cheaper and faster than dial-up.
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RainbowWarrior64
Nov 17 2007, 01:34 AM
Okay, so I'm on a dial up connection and I've got a Wii and a DS. Thing that sucks is that I can't use the Nintendo Wi-fi connection because I have a wired dial up connection. I'm wondering if it's possible to connect to the Wi-fi connection using the Buffalo Gaming Access Point and connecting it to a wireless router. Do I actually need an active internet connection for this to work?

Btw, from what I've heard, Buffalo's Wireless-G products cannot be sold; copyright infringement stuff.

Anyway, making a dial-up connection is useless; and near impossible to do (you can't fit a phone line into an ethernet port).
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I don't think that would be possible, and if it is, it would make the connection lag a lot. That would personally irritate me, and probably others too.

I don't know how it works up there, but it seems like DSL is really cheap, so you would be better getting that and a wireless router. I have wired bandwidth connection (500k), and I'm getting a wireless router next week, so I can use wi-fi on my DS :)
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