Finally a day off when the kids are at school and I finally get to play the Wii a litte. In between loads of laundry and doing dishes. But at least it's something!

Hey....smart people. Is this what I need? Rather than F****** around with this stupid D-Link thing that I can't get to work properly with my iMac...isn't this all that I need? I don't need wireless in my house for any reason other than the Wii as I am old school.

This seems to be what I am looking for. Yay or nay?

Have not tried it, but I would think it's worth a shot if the wireless router thing isn't working out for you.


By the way... 2 words. SSX Blur.

Do you mind me asking: do you connect to the internet with your iMac? If so, how do you do it?

We ahve one computer....a G5 iMac. Plugs ino the wall using SBC DSL. Big yellow line leading from the wall to the computer. I ain't one of them fancy Fish-like laptop guys.

Dude, it seems to me that you should make sure that your G5 has an airport card in it. Without that, it does not communicate with a D-Link at all, for instance, or with any wireless anything. Because, when you bring up System Preferences-> Network, or else Internet Connect, it should show you the D-Link network, and allow you to proceed to link to it, to join it. Likely, you would have to enter the password that you assigned to the wireless network when you installed your router. I'm just guessing, of course, because I'm not there with you, but you know...

I looked at that link to wiki about the USB wireless link to the Nintendo that you would use from your computer, and you should know that - according to the article - it does NOT work with apple computers, and that AOL likely breaks it for you.

Has an airport card. This sounds bad. Good thing it only affects my son.

Clam,

You're really not missing much, and it might not be worth the hassle. My Wii is online and the only thing it allows me to do is send my Miis to friends. You can also download classic Nintendo and Sega games for a fee ($5 plus each), but who wants to play classic Super Mario when you've got Wii Tennis?

Until live online gaming is introduced, I wouldn't worry about it. By then, there should be a solution for you. You could always run another long yellow cord right over to the Wii...

If you ever wish to connect to that router with the g5, you should first make sure that the airport card is actually turned on. Every once in a while the card does get turned off for me, like when my cable modem drops its connection. This used to happen to me when I had DSL, only more often because at&t dsl just sucked, going down every time the wind picked it seemed. Since you don't typically use it - connecting to the internet via network cable - the airport card could be turned off.

Just a thought, anyway.

I know that with the Sony PSP, I can transfer files to it using a USB cable from any of my computers. Games, music, extras. I put mp3 files on the PSP for my spoiled rotten son to listen to. Probably the same music those brazen hussies at musical mayhem were dancing to.

Sounds like the Wii does not have this capability, to connect to computer via USB cable and allow you to move/copy files?