Misc Wifi on FON hotspot

[cheekydollar]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[chrisduffer]

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]

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]

my fon router is wpa
the ds only supports wep

 

[cheekydollar]

you can change it to WEP...

 

[euqiddis]

so will a fon router work then?

 

[cheekydollar]

anyone got any ideas?

 

[DarkLink]

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]

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]

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

 

[e_man]

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]

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?

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]

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]

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

 

[e_man]

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?