I currently have an internet setup in my apartment that requires me to load a sign in page in my browser before I can access the internet. Problem is, I don't know how I can do this on the Wii, as it just gives me an error on the connection before I can even get to a browser.
The error happens when I am trying to set up the connection through the internet connection manager in the Wii settings. I get the error number 52231 and it says "Unable to connect to the server."
Is there some way I can get the wii to connect to the internet? If wireless isn't an option with this setup, I do have a Nintendo USB -> ethernet adapter – this might be the craziest question ever, as I know little about how the internet connections work, but is there some way I can string my desktop's internet into my wii? (I have no access to the main house's router or anything like that.)
Best Answer
Yes. As SevenSidedDie points out in the comments, you can indeed set up a computer in your apartment to receive the internet connection from the Local Wireless, and then pass it on to your Wii. As he said, in Windows, this is called Internet Connection Sharing.
How you set it up exactly, step-by-step, depends on what version of Windows you are using, but essentially the process is like this. You connect to the internet wirelessly with a computer that has both a wireless card and an ethernet card. You edit the properties of the Wireless connection to enable Internet Connection Sharing. You designate the wireless as the source. This would then enable that computer to pass the internet connection on to any device connected to the ethernet port of that computer... provided the computer with the wireless connection to the internet is turned on. You would be turning the computer into a router in effect.