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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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Nintendo DS Wifi and Airport Express
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.

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