Are Nintendo REALLY serious about onling gaming?

The DS only supports WEP which means it's useless on my network :( There is no way i'm going all the way down to WEP just to support the DS.

At least they included WPA/WPA2 on the Wii though :)

As for the actual service I think they've decided that everyone deserves to be protected online, rather than giving parents and everyone else a choice as to what their/their kids online experience is like.
 
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I thought I was knowledgeable enough about wireless networks but what you just said didn't really mean much to me past what an SSID is :D
 
As serious as Microsoft or Sony? No.
But they are serious about online gaming because times dictate means, and Online Gaming is a massive element of gaming nowadays. Nintendo have underestimated the demand for online support in the same way Sony did last generation.
 
Wang Computer said:
The Wii's online implementation was very much an intentional decision. Anyway, things may change; it's not like the Wii's interface firmware is completely static.
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Very true, although I cant see them adding enhanced support for existing games as they have a policy have not allowing games to be "patched" via their online network. Also, they need to SCRAP friend codes on the Wii, they built in a parental control system - WHY NOT USE IT? Their just dumbing down the system for the rest of us who are over 9 years old.

Although why games like Mario Party are released with NO online PLAY.. and MARIO AND Sonic Olympics - NO ONLINE PLAY is beyond me.

They are just BAD decisions by the company in the current gaming enviroment.

The Nintendo chestnut of "We want to encourage social gaming" is wearing thin, INCLUDE online play so the game provides something for EVERYONE rather than dictating we invite friends round to our houses to enjoy their stupid games.

Why not allow me to set my parental controls to "18+" and utilise a unified friend code system (Which they allready have via the Wii Code) and allow me to abuse my friends over VOIP?

WHY HAVE THEY NOT RELEASED AN ONLINE VERSION OF WII SPORTS? I'd happily pay £50 for it if it had leagues, tournaments etc.
 
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Fillado said:
I thought I was knowledgeable enough about wireless networks but what you just said didn't really mean much to me past what an SSID is :D
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Sorry, mate, I only just saw your post.

Having multiple SSIDs means that you can run 2 (or more) SSIDs concurrently from your Access Point/wireless router. For example, you might have configured one SSID called Fillado1 that is tightly configured how you want it to be, e.g. it uses WPA2 PSK, specific MAC filters applied, certain DHCP scopes in place, the SSID broadcast is disabled, etc... You also have another SSID running called Fillado2 which is configured differently, e.g. only using WEP, has different MAC filtering which includes your DS, has no DHCP enabled, the SSID is broadcast, etc...

This means that your DS can see and connect to Fillado2 whilst you can configure your other devices to connect to Fillado1.

You then configure VLANS, or Virtual LANs, on the router so that, for example, any device connected to Fillado1 can see other devices on the same VLAN and can also go out to the internet. However anything that connects to Fillado2 (which should only be your DS unless someone is using your connection without authorisation) can only go out to the internet and can not see any devices connected to the Fillado1 VLAN.

So, as you can see, it stops someone who has connected to your network using the insecure encryption applied to Fillado2's SSID from being able to access your kit that's connected to Fillado1's SSID.

Hope that helps :)
 
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