I live in a college dorm, and with most modern colleges all students have user accounts. We use these accounts for many school-related things; including logging into the internet. From my windows 8 machine it's not a problem, the password entry menu just has two text boxes instead of one. But my newly purchased Wii U doesn't seem to be able to handle this type of internet login, and still only provides what seems like a single entry box for a WAP passphrase. Is it still possible to log into my college network from my Wii U, or am I out of luck?
I saw a previous post related to my problem, but no one there had a concrete answer.
Edit: I ended up just buying a wireless router and plugging it into the ethernet jack in my dorm room.
Best Answer
Typically in these kinds of wireless setups are open wi-fi (no WEP/WAP needed) and after you connect you would open the web browser on the console and visit a web page of some kind to trigger the login prompt. Once you have completed your login you should be able to go back to whatever game you want to use online.
What is typically happening on the back-end is the system is authenticating your IP with your login credentials and assigning a IP lease to your user ID for the duration of that network session. Once you disconnect it drops the lease.
The other thing to be concerned about here is they may be firewalling all but a hand full of internet ports as well as having a login, so even if you log in, you can get to web pages (on port 80), but the ports the games use to connect to their server will not be allowed to have communications.
I would suggest you try the trick I listed first and report your results. If it doesn't work then you'll likely need to resort to the wired connection, or network sharing via a PC of some kind as one of the other answers suggested.