Getting updates without a broadband connection

[Bernie Cosell]

Has anyone found a way to get system updates if you don't have a broadband
connection? I have a sat connection, which ought to be fast enough for the
wii but it isn't [IMO it is a programming/software bug: every OTHER
protocol does OK with the sat delay [a little jerky but they all work]...
only the wii can't deal with the delays]. I have gotten a few of the
"there's a system update bundled with this game" updates, but nothing has
updated the Wii Store machinery: if I try to go to the wii store, it tells
me that I need to update my software, which, of course, I can't do].

I can get the news and weather and such just fine, so the basic "connect"
machinery is just fine, not just-fine-enough for the system updater. Is
there *anything* I can do?

Thanks! /bernie\
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[Bret Ripley]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:08:02 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:

> Has anyone found a way to get system updates if you don't have a broadband
> connection? I have a sat connection, which ought to be fast enough for the
> wii but it isn't [IMO it is a programming/software bug: every OTHER
> protocol does OK with the sat delay [a little jerky but they all work]...
> only the wii can't deal with the delays]. I have gotten a few of the
> "there's a system update bundled with this game" updates, but nothing has
> updated the Wii Store machinery: if I try to go to the wii store, it tells
> me that I need to update my software, which, of course, I can't do].
>
> I can get the news and weather and such just fine, so the basic "connect"
> machinery is just fine, not just-fine-enough for the system updater. Is
> there *anything* I can do?

My wii updates just fine using my sat connection (Wildblue) and a wireless
connection (Netgear router), so it can be done.

You don't give any details which makes it difficult for anyone to offer any
specific advice. Which sat service do you use? Is your connection wired or
wireless? If wireless, what type of router you are using?

If you are connecting via a wireless router, you may need to change some
settings that are specific to that router.

For specific router information, try here:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/routers/en_na/routerIndex.jsp

For more general wii connection problems, try here:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/online.jsp

Good luck!

Bret

[Bernie Cosell]

Bret Ripley <rip...@gotsky.com> wrote:

} On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:08:02 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
}
} > Has anyone found a way to get system updates if you don't have a broadband
} > connection? I have a sat connection, which ought to be fast enough for the
} > wii but it isn't [IMO it is a programming/software bug: every OTHER
} > protocol does OK with the sat delay [a little jerky but they all work]...
} > only the wii can't deal with the delays].
}

} My wii updates just fine using my sat connection (Wildblue) and a wireless
} connection (Netgear router), so it can be done.

Wow... I'll have to keep trying, I guess.

} You don't give any details which makes it difficult for anyone to offer any
} specific advice. Which sat service do you use? Is your connection wired or
} wireless? If wireless, what type of router you are using?

Hughesnet, wireless with a Linksys router. Note that the Wii works just
fine with my current setup -- I can go online, I can get the news and
weather. But when I try to go to the Wii store I get "you need an update
to do that" and when I try to do an update I get the "you need a faster
internet connection" error

} For more general wii connection problems, try here:
}
} http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/online.jsp

Hmm.. What's interesting is tha they have a list of ISPs they don't play
with:

The following ISPs may not be able to connect at all, or may experience
problems with online game play over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Please note that this list is subject to change at any time

[...]

Hughes (HughesNet) Satellite

I'll keep trying, though, and maybe I'll luck out one time...

I'm still a bit surprised [miffed actually] that Nintendo provides *NO* way
to download the updates directly. [It woudln't be all that hard to make
the updates available for FTP download, then you could burn it to a CD or
DVD and get the updates that way] Oh well... Maybe I'm stuck just being
envious of folk talking about all the neat downloadable games out there...
[what I might have to do is carry my @$%@#$% Wii to someplace else where I
can put it on a "real" [as far as Nintendo is concerned] broadband
connection]

thanks! /bernie\