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I bought my son a NintendoDS this weekend along with Mario Kart. I searched Google for a while, trying to figure out why I couldn't see my AirPort with the DS and Nintendo's wifi support site doesn't work from a Mac-based browser.

Anyway, all I had to do was set the Multicast rate to 2 instead of 11. Just figured I would pass this on in case anyone else runs into this.
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Nintendo DS Wifi and Airport Express
Authored by: Mike A on Apr 07, '06 08:30:37AM

I have a rather annoying problem with my Airport Express. I have it set up to add wireless capability to my wired router. This works brilliantly on my PowerBook, but whenever my friend tries to use it with his Windows laptop it just doesn't work.

Of course, this could just be a problem with his laptop, but does anyone have any suggestions?



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Nintendo DS Wifi and Airport Express
Authored by: chrisjniles on Apr 07, '06 09:15:41AM

If you have your wireless network password protected, you can't use WPA or anyone trying to log in with a windows machine won't be able to. You have to use WEP. If it's not a protected network, then it is probably a problem with the windows laptop.



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Nintendo DS Wifi and Airport Express
Authored by: Baggins on Apr 07, '06 10:05:38AM

You have GOT to be kidding. Windows doesn't support WPA encryption?



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Authored by: smanzo on Apr 07, '06 11:27:39AM

No, certain matchings of chipset and drivers don't support WPA in the Windows world. If the friend in the followup is using an older card, then that's quite likely the problem.



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Authored by: rspress on Apr 09, '06 08:17:50AM

It is not that Windows supports WPA, it does by the fact that the network interface device and driver software handles it and Windows just gets the decrypted data.

More than likely the person who is using the Windows laptop does not know much about setting it up for Wireless access. With my Windows machine and a linksys USB network adapter to a linksys G router it is as simple as entering my password for WEP. For my Mac with built in Airport I have to punch in a very long number. Of course if every Windows user knew a lot about wireless routers then I would not have very good free wireless access everywhere I go with my Palm PDA ;-)

However the Nintendo DS does not support WPA, just WEP. If you follow the instructions on the Nintendo DS site for setting up a static IP for a wireless connection you could run into problem. It tells you to look at your windows computer and if the IP address is a static number such as 192.168.1.111 just and 1 to the last number such as 192.168.1.112. Of course if you are so lame you don't know how to set up static addresses on you local network or you are on a shared wireless network you could have just stepped on someone who was already using 192.168.1.112 and both of you will be out of luck.



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Nintendo DS Wifi and Airport Express
Authored by: Dragon76 on Apr 07, '06 08:39:17AM
I'm not sure it's the multicast rate that's the problem because I have my wireless G router set to multicast 11. Actually, Nintendo says you just have to make sure that multicast rates of 11 and 5.5 are available even though the NDS only operates at 1 and 2 Mbps

http://www.darkain.com/nintendo_ds/nifi.php

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Nintendo DS Wifi and Airport Express
Authored by: rspress on Apr 07, '06 09:09:50AM

I doubt that it is the multicast either. Despite what many windows users say and Apple Airport is nothing more than a wireless router and they all pretty much operate in the same way.....they have to our we would not be connecting to the internet.

Nearly all connection problems can be traced down to a few things. IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and encryption settings. Of course there are things in all routers that you can mess up and not be able to make a connection but those are the big four and the cause of about 99 percent of the problems.

One of the major problems are devices that use static IP address on a DHCP system. Say you have a wireless cam that is on 192.168.1.105, if DHCP gives that address to another computer you will have problems. Make sure all devices are set for DHCP or assign static addresses to all devices. If you are using WEP for encryption make sure all devices use key number one to make sure problems are kept to a minimum.



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Authored by: druggedonions on Apr 07, '06 12:34:57PM
You should also be able to, on some routers/DHCP servers at least, choose to assign a range of addresses say 192.168.1.1-200 and then use 192.168.1.201 and above as static addresses. I had to do this on a network where we had some printers (with static addresses) and visiting artists (with DHCP served addresses). There was no way I was going to be on call to set up peoples laptops for one day when I could have the server hand them out for me. ;)

On topic, my DS only has problems joining encrypted networks, didn't have to mess with any other settings.

Friend codes:
Mario kart

223398249306
Animal crossing
1031-4763-6785


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Authored by: ajmas on Apr 08, '06 08:14:21PM

See <a href="http://www.nintendowifi.com/">Nintendo Wifi</a> for all the details on how to setup your DS and Wi-Fi based to work together.



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Authored by: vulture7776969 on Aug 26, '06 12:53:11PM

I use my airport card in my G5 to share internet from my ethernet port. The only options I can really change is the frequency band channel. I've tried this and still won't connect to the DS. It sees it as an access point but won't give the DS an IP address. Any suggestions?



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Authored by: superg on Aug 26, '06 05:05:41PM

there's another article about it here, search for it... you have to set your ds as static to make it work



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