Comments on: Wii and My Strange ISP (MaxNet Thailand)

By: James

James — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:19:01 +0000

God Dammit – i just changed to MaxNet from Phuket Island Technology.. whilst i could happily use the WFC on Island Tech – the MaxNet wont do it.. for reasons probably mentioned above!

Whilst im ok with basic computer stuff – the whole squid on router… sounds out of my depth.

Anyone care to help? few beers should anyone visit sunny phuket in it for the solution! – perhaps a walkthrough or even better a “click and run” solution if someone is really clever.. im sure im not the only one with this problem!

Waiting for help!

Cheers

James

By: yohanes

yohanes — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:08:33 +0000

I have looked at the Internet for that error code, and it seems there are many people experiencing the same problem (other connection like Internet or News working, but WFC not working).

Sorry, I think I am unable to help you with the problem, and I hope you can solve it.

By: Manu Srivastava

Manu Srivastava — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:25:15 +0000

61070 – which supposedly means Nintendo WFC is down.

While this does happen on occasion, I have tried enough times where the chance of WFC happening to be down *every time* I connect is negligible.

Could it be a problem with my Squid/Wii Proxy configuration (although my generous ACL policy is to let everybody through…)?

The sad part is that I recently moved and before the move I had no issues playing Mario Kart Wii / Smash Brothers online, but afterwards I was completely stumped that I could not get an internet connection (and of course, when I contacted my ISP, they insisted that I am doing something wrong on my end…)

At the very least, I got some closure as to why the internet wasn’t working, but with Mario Kart Wii, it is all for naught. =p

-manu

By: yohanes

yohanes — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:19:12 +0000

For my problem, setting out a proxy server and accessing the server through my browser was enough. As for your problem, Right now, I don’t have any idea. It seems that the response for the connection to naswii.nintendowifi.net and rcw.wc32.wii.com has been successfully made. What error code did you get on the Wii?

By: Manu Srivastava

Manu Srivastava — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:50:16 +0000

I am amazed that you were able to come up with a solution. Believe it or not, I had the same *exact* problem, and would have never figured out the workaround had I not stumbled upon your site.

Is there a workaround for connecting to Nintendo WFC? Or was setting up a proxy server with conntest.nintendowifi.net sufficient? For some reason, I can’t connect to WFC, but I’m not sure if this is the same issue or an issue going through squid3.

In particular, these are the access logs for when I try to play Mario Kart online:
TCP_MISS/200 2688 CONNECT naswii.nintendowifi.net:443 – DIRECT/209.67.106.143 -

TCP_MISS/200 395 POST http://rcw.wc24.wii.com/cgi-bin/check.cgi – DIRECT/125.199.254.50 text/plain

If this is a similar issue then I assume there is no easy workaround since I can’t really “cache” these urls. Any ideas?

-manu