Fucking Wii U Internet Connection Fuck

[Eight Taiwanese Teenagers]

At some point in the past few weeks my Wii U has decided it does not want to connect to the Internet. I have tried everything that people suggest on message boards where they have had the same problem, but nothing. I can't even factory reset the fucking thing because it requires an Internet connection to do so.

Anyone had any experience with calling Nintendo's technics support? Because it's almost come to that.

It's that or throw the thing under a train.

[Hollow]

I've never seen one in the flesh, does it have ethernet?

[Onken]

That sweet Devil's Third multiplayer you'll be missing out on. I feel for you.

[mook]

try this...

Ok so far heres what works, entering in everything manually.





1. Go into connection types, Hit "Manual Configuration"



2. Input your SSID



3. Input the correct security type, this is key.



4. Put your password in properly



5. For ip address "Do not auto obtain".



6. open up cmd in your computer, type in ipconfig



7. Now input that ip address but add 10 to the last number so "192.168.0.1" will be entered as "192.168.0.11"



8. Enter the rest of your info inside such as subnet mask and default gateway exactly as you see it in your ipconfig.



9. Now hit next, hit configure now for your DNS.  When asked about DNS hit "Dont auto obtain".



10. For the first server put in 8.8.8.8



11. For the second server put in 8.8.4.4



12. Hit Next, when asked about a proxy hit no proxy



13. Leave mtu as the default



14. it should work, if not check the ip and that it is the internet ip + 10.  Good luck

http://techforums.nintendo.com/thread/17357

if it doesn't work, neg neil twenty four times. k?

[Eight Taiwanese Teenagers]

Yep, did that one. About twenty times! It actually got me through to a second stage of pain, where it could find the router but not the Internet connection. I am ordering an Ethernet adapter which will bypass the whole wireless thing entirely and hopefully work. Otherwise I might as well throw the Wii U down a well.

[mook]

at least i tried to help... i really am not the new wilbur after all.

um... have you negged neil twenty four times?

i'm curious what would happen if you did is all.

[Eight Taiwanese Teenagers]

Negging Neil twenty times? Might as well hurl myself into a wood chipper.

[mook]

Negging Neil twenty times? Might as well hurl myself into a wood chipper.

24 times. a full days worth... go on. he probably won't even notice.

[Onken]

The Wii U and Neil have a lot in common.

[mook]

The Wii U and Neil have a lot in common.

they're both temperamental & don't work?


&post

[Blumf]

I had an issue with the WiiU networking where the solution was to attach it to another wifi network then switch it back to the original one.

More shit!

All of a sudden, the wifi stopped working, with just the usual vague error messages and a google-full of people with the same complaints.

The most common suggestion is to manually configure the WiiU's IP and DNS settings (with some clunky guides that suggest you guess at a free IP address, tsk!). This, however, wasn't working for me. The WiiU stubbornly refused to do anything despite repeated connection attempts. Checking the AP's stats showed the console was only firing off a couple (literally 2) packets and nothing more each time.

My solution:

• Be lucky enough to have an alternative wifi AP (in my case an Android phone that can run as one)
• Connect to this new AP, give it a test
• Delete all the connections; the old one that used to work, the new one to the new AP
• Shut down, unplug, wait, replug (no idea if this is needed, but just to be safe)
• Start up again, and magically you can now reconnect to the original wifi AP
• Conclude that Nintendo's QA dept. must be a quiet, empty place

There is a really nice console here, under all the crap.

[Eight Taiwanese Teenagers]

Yeah I tried connecting to my phone as a wifi hub but that didn't work neither.