Misc Wifi on FON hotspot

cheekydollar · Feb 27, 2007

Hi,

Has anyone had any luck using their DS over a FON (www.fonc.om) wireless router?? It wont let me connect - and im not sure what settings i need to change in my DS or router. Can anyone help?

cheers + yagshemash

corbs132 · Feb 27, 2007

are you a fonero? you might wanna make sure you are registered. you understand the rules of fon right? you provide service, you get. but i think you need to configure with your pc, so idk how that works from a ds.

cheekydollar · Feb 27, 2007

Hi,

Well i am not actually registed yet - but i can access my own private wifi network.

The thing is - i only want to use this for my DS, as my PC's are wired and so dont want to become a sharer unless my DS will work on it....

Gewwit · Feb 27, 2007

it is possible to connect to your fon router
but only too my_place(play online) and not to fon_....... (it can, but only ds-browser)
I can connect with my fon router but cant get it working with WEP key :S

cheekydollar · Feb 27, 2007

Well, my DS recognises the My_PLace connection - but throws up some error messages when I try to connect...

chrisduffer · Feb 28, 2007

I'm pretty sure you won't be able to use a FON connection for anything other than web browsing. The AP won't allow any internet traffic until you've logged in through the web page. I think it's based on MAC address authentication one you login, so you may be able to do something by spoofing the DS MAC from a PC. But if it uses session based authentication it won't work.

cheekydollar · Feb 28, 2007

Thats annoying.... Although for my MY_PLACE network i dont need to login via a webpage - i have the password saved on my laptop and it just connects.

dude1 · Mar 4, 2007

my fon router is wpa
the ds only supports wep

cheekydollar · Mar 4, 2007

you can change it to WEP...

euqiddis · Mar 5, 2007

so will a fon router work then?

cheekydollar · Mar 12, 2007

anyone got any ideas?

DarkLink · Mar 13, 2007

hmm can I get more info? wont let you connect? how so? does connection test work at all?
because I can use Wifi on my DS with a Fon router

cheekydollar · Mar 13, 2007

Hi,

it recognises my connection, but then throws up an error message when i try to connect.

I will haven another go and post the exact details here.

Before I do -did you manually configure any settings on your DS? ie IP address and all that malarky?!

DarkLink · Mar 13, 2007

nope i just selected myPlace the entered WEP key and was good to go

e_man · Mar 19, 2007

QUOTE(DarkLink @ Mar 14 2007 said:
nope i just selected myPlace the entered WEP key and was good to go

will it cause any problems with computers that is set to the wpa settings, if i change the router to wpe so me and my brother can use the ds?

i mean, do i have to write new letters n shit yo? like the password and stuff?

DarkLink · Mar 21, 2007

QUOTE(e_man @ Mar 19 2007 said:
QUOTE(DarkLink @ Mar 14 2007 said:

nope i just selected myPlace the entered WEP key and was good to go

will it cause any problems with computers that is set to the wpa settings, if i change the router to wpe so me and my brother can use the ds?

i mean, do i have to write new letters n shit yo? like the password and stuff?

Click to expand...

Yea you have to re enter a password on WEP its only numbers and 10 of them minimum
all other machines will need to be set to WEP to be able to use it too...

e_man · Mar 21, 2007

ok thanks, got my router set on WEP now, but i cant connect with my ds, it doesnt complain anymore that it is a wpa network. i've tried a couple of times and got connection approved 1 time. can it be ping? if i'm dl/uploadning? or does it require any portforwarding?
thanks guys

cheekydollar · Mar 30, 2007

I have the same problem. can anyone shed some light? much obliged, yagshemash.

e_man · Apr 2, 2007

i've noticed that if you choose it to be open, you can use it perfectly.
so the problem should be the encryption or something. can someone look further into this please?

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