I have always had a little trouble getting my wii to have a stable wireless connection. I traced it a while ago to the fact that the wii was connecting and disconnecting every few minutes, or some times several times in a minute. The main issue was that if left on it would crash the wireless access point, so I had to reboot that.
The reason was because the number of connects would cause the logs to fill up. If I could have disabled the logs then the problem would have been solved. Alas it’s old and wouldn’t let me.
I bought a new wireless router in the hope of fixing it once and for all (and reducing some power consumption, having a single device, as well as a more up-to-date G model, which would be stronger signal etc..
The stability problem persists, however it doesn’t crash the router. I left it overnight to see what the craic was. 16 pages of log files were generated, that’s 160 entries of connections. So WiiConnect24 for 24hours would produce 480 connections.. The log now stands at 20pages, I am waiting to see if that’s the limit and it simply overwrites, in which case, cool, otherwise this router will let me stop it logging these events.
The stability of the connection however I have resolved by giving the wii a static IP address. It seems if it requires to obtain that IP from the router in all these communications then it really goes beserk on the requests, and it can often fail. All is well now. Nice strong signal, possible upgrade to WPA security (when I get the usb key working under linux for the laptop, but that’s another story…), and a wii that truly uses WiiConnect24.
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