What could be simpler? I have a wireless router (Linksys WRT54GS, firmware version 4.71.1.) I have a Wii. Therefore, Wii are connected. Didn’t work like that though.

I spent three days on and off, trying to connect. I tried what felt like ALL the suggestions on the Internet, from Nintendo’s to anyone with a computer and the willingness to write about it. Nothing worked.

Then, a crazy suggestion from another blog. It worked for the author, but surely not for me. No other suggestions worked, so…

But, WTF, what’s one more failed attempt?

The author was able to connect, not by going in the Wii’s menu for manually entering TCP/IP addresses, but by simply using the router’s Restore Factory Defaults option. OK, that should not work as I have modified each setting at one point or another. Nearly all of the routers functions were set back to the default in my experimentation; all the functions that should matter anyway.

So I go ahead and use the Restore Factory Defaults option, and promptly lose connection to the Internet. That’s NOT helpful. But because I’ve been experimenting, re-establishing the connection to the Internet doesn’t take long. Then I go back into the routers settings and glance at the DHCP clients table.

WTF! There’s a Wii that wasn’t there before!

Going back to the Wii console, I once again run the connection option and damned if it didn’t connect straight away. It didn’t even blink when I later renamed the SSID broadcast (then turned it off altogether), turned on the encryption, and used the filter MAC option.

So bottom line is if you’ve tried everything else, just restore the factory defaults. Can’t be any more work then what you’ve been doing right?