I've got a question regarding the wifi in newer and older revisions of Nintendo Wiis.
Does anybody have any info or knowledge regarding the wifi speed and capabilities of newer Wiis compared to the oldest versions? Do the newer wiis have an optimised, streamlined wifi capability?
Also, do updated wiis have any advantage over general speed and wifi compared to older firmwares?
I ask this because my own Wii, that is only 10 feet away from my router, seems to have poorer wifi than my nephews wii that is about 25 feet away and having to pass through about 3 thick walls and floors.
So...is there any optimised hardware with newer wiis? Or is it only software?
Also, now that there is the ability of trucha signing IOS's, etc, would it be worth updating my Wii to one firmware revision below the one that updates BootMii in order to gain these performance updates? I can always use Bootmii to make a backup before any updates so that I can revert back to what I had before hand.
I will also be using DOP-Mii to patch any and all IOS that it needs.
Many thanks in advance.
Updates don't boost the wi-fi reciver. The difference in the newer wii's is that the color is different comes with two games and alreadys has channels installed. I'm guessing that your router sucks. With my brothers ps3 we had to buy a netgrear device that connects to the router and sends the boosted signal to a reciving device. That then connects wired to the ps3. It works better than wire-less. Use something like that with the wii.
Dude, don't be patching IOSes that don't need it. You should have IOS36 patched, and I think the IOS that priiloader uses which would be your system menu IOS (although that may have changed with recent priiloader releases). Other than that, the only other IOSes that need patching are the cIOS, and those should already be patched.
Yeah, I kinda get the feeling that my router is just pathetic. I was just wondering if there were any improvements within the hardware of newer wiis or if later System Menu revisions did provide anything worth having regarding "behind the scenes improvements" that I've heard about.
I'll only be patching those IOS that I need to in order to keep rebooter, etc.
I'd love an up-to-date yet most homebrew capable Wii.
Your router is most likely okay. Most routers require you to be at least a couple of yards away to get a "Good" connection. That must be why your Nephew has a better connection than you. (Unless you have your LAN cord connected to your Wii)
Now to the newer Wii. A software update could not improve the WiFi. A newer Wii might, due to the fact that Nintendo may upgrade the WiFi capabilities (Behind the Scenes).
-Stated above is Knowledge attained from working with Computers since I was a kid-
Muffin Pirate is right, don't put your Wii to close to the router. The transmitter will saturate the receiver and you will have poor reception.
Another common culprit is...your neighbors! If you have an Android phone, there's an app called WiFi Analyzer that will show you what WiFi is active around you and what channel they're on. If you don't have that, but you have Linux, you could always try Kismet or Airodump. Windows generally restricts raw access to the WiFi so these tools don't have Windows equivalents...
There's a small chance that Nintendo updated the wifi chip in the Wii. However, once a product hits the shelves, companies are really careful about doing those kinds of changes without a good reason, lest they introduce new bugs.
They could update IOS to improve the wifi. Kinda like how they introduced USB 2.0 support with IOS58, years after launch. However, older games will not benefit from this because they will use their old IOS.
Quote from: dcx2 on April 02, 2011, 04:48:39 PM
Muffin Pirate is right, don't put your Wii to close to the router. The transmitter will saturate the receiver and you will have poor reception.
Another common culprit is...your neighbors! If you have an Android phone, there's an app called WiFi Analyzer that will show you what WiFi is active around you and what channel they're on. If you don't have that, but you have Linux, you could always try Kismet or Airodump. Windows generally restricts raw access to the WiFi so these tools don't have Windows equivalents...
There's a small chance that Nintendo updated the wifi chip in the Wii. However, once a product hits the shelves, companies are really careful about doing those kinds of changes without a good reason, lest they introduce new bugs.
They could update IOS to improve the wifi. Kinda like how they introduced USB 2.0 support with IOS58, years after launch. However, older games will not benefit from this because they will use their old IOS.
NetStumbler will work on Windows, quite similar to Kismet (although NetStumbler won't show networks with SSID broadcast turned off).
That's pretty interesting...didn't know that being too close would saturate the signal.
What would be the optimum distance to be? I am currently about...12ft from the router.
I also live a 1/4 mile away from my nearest neighbor lol And I did use a Wifi tester just to see if there is anyone using the "open Zone" portion of my ISP. Basically, that means that anyone using the same ISP as me can use a seperate channel of my router and use my connection but only limited and at a low priority. Shouldn't affect my download speed (so they say).
I think I tried the Wifi on my new black Wii that I bought for parts. Kind remember being pretty smooth...I'll have to bring it out at some point to test that. the only snag is that I've already swapped the DVD Unit out of it to replace the one in my old Wii.