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Router range and interference (other wireless devices, certain metal, microwaves, walls/floors, etc.) can greatly affect the connection, and it might end up rather laggy even if you're playing with someone in your state. If your Wii and router are at opposite ends of the house, you'll get a much better connection if you use a really long wire rather than a wireless connection...
NDUDE is right, your signal strength is going to be a bigger deal than the speed of your connection. Wired always has perfect signal strength, but in most cases WiFi should work just fine, unless you've got you're Wii in the basement or something.
You are comparing bandwidth of the connection instead of latency. Bandwidth should not be important for smash as long as you are not on dial up or something like that. Having a low latency is much more important. The wired LAN adapter should have lower latency than using wireless. It would suggesting getting it. I will probably get one also.
Uploads are much faster from DSL connections. Cable achieves somewhat better download speeds.
Actually the Wi-Fi Adapter is easy to set up. It was harder for me to set up the Wii LAN Adapter (yes, I have both).
That doesn't really matter either. The LAN adapter comes with only 5 feet of cable and is practically useless if you want to play more than 5 feet from your computer. My Wi Fi Adapter is set up about 35 feet from my Wii with two walls in the way and it still has two bars.
Well I have DSL with my Wii and TV on the same desk as my computer, so I guess I will get wired.
The do make ethernet cables in much longer lengths... the one included with the product is merely out of convenience. It's not meant to be the only one used with the adapter, and I'm not sure where you'd get that idea, either.
Well, you can just purchase an longer ethernet cord. What I actually doing right now with my 360 is I have a 25ft cable hanging out of my 2nd floor window (which is connected to the 4 lan ports of my wireless router) which goes through the 1st floor window where my 360 is. Crazy as it may sound, it's worth it because that's where my sofa is xD.
this was mostly due to a low quality router. i once had one supplied by time warner cable and i would have it serviced every month becuase it would just flip out for no reason.
Unfortunately I was misinformed. The product I linked (http://www.ayagroup.com/product.php?productid=1295&cat=0&page=1) is a Bluetooth adapter only, and not a 802.11b/g Wi-fi adapter (the signal the Wii needs for its wireless internet connection). Thus this product does NOT allow the Wii to tap your computer's internet connection. You can, however, connect your Wiimotes to your computer for homebrew purposes.
No. The latency of a satellite connection is too high.
Insert the CD
You can't use one of those to make an access point to connect the Wii to. Nintendo stopped people from being able to do that. Only PSPs and PS3s and stuff like that can use that. The only way you can use one is if it comes with special software or if someone rewrites a driver to make it a SoftAP. Nintendo made it so the only access points it can use is a official dongle or a real router. A SoftAP tricks it into thinking it is a router. This is what Wifi Max and Wifi Link are. You can buy them in shops and they can connect to the Wii because it's a softAPRyokoYaksa said:
