I just Wii'd myself with Excitement

[zephyr]

I can see Ant and Al&Em but when I try to join the room i get disconnected with error code 86420

[Ant]

Same is happening to me. Have just reconnected and opened a room - wonder whether anyone will be able to join me.

[Al&Em]

I'm logged on but it kept disconnecting when I tried to join your room... Anyone else having trouble? I'll open a room (I race under the name 'Ali') - join me there!

[Ant]

No joy - never had this trouble before so I don't see how it can be settings etc. Praps it's just a problem elsewhere in the network?

[Al&Em]

Yup... I keep getting error code 86420 too...

[zephyr]

I looked up the error code on the nintendo web site and it says that it is often temporary and should resolve itself

[Ant]

OK looks like people can join my room - i'll give it a couple more mins before starting the race.

[Ant]

Gah! Lost my connection halfway through the first race. Bugger this - one last try and if that doesn't work I'm off for some food.

[Siduhe]

I was on and racing with Ant, but just got disconnected. Looks like Nintendo is a bit flaky today...

[Ant]

Hm, our old friend 86420 again. Nintendo certainly is flaky tonight. Oh well - another time.

[Al&Em]

I give up... night night everyone.

[Siduhe]

Indeed, and just when I was winning...;-)

[Siduhe]

Take it back - I have a room open and zephyr has made it in.

[zephyr]

Good couple of Grand Prix - I had to get my son to play a couple of races as I had to put the dinner out.

Must do it again! I may be on later!

[Ant]

Have just bought Super Smash Bros Brawl. Quite excited about getting home again to play it - talk about reliving your youth.

Anyway - anyone else have this? I hear you can fight online.

[Keef]

Had the gamecube one. Kind of fun, but really simple gameplay!

[SeanMacGabhann]

people keep telling me how simple on the surface it is (Super Smas Bros) but how many layers of depth there are.. I'm never convinced

Wii time is going to be sorely lacking in coming weeks with Fable 2 and Fallout 3 however (plus someone gave me The Orange Box for my birthday - woo hoo)

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Orange Box?

There's only one thing to chant to yourself then:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2140/2238112107_921264bc62.jpg

http://mirrorsedge.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/cake.jpg

http://reddogg.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/cubecake.jpg

Teh cake is a lie

[LuvPeckham]

The Joys of 86420

Some people get no problems at all and others can open a room but no one can connect or they can't connect to an open room... if you get 86420 then read on...

According to some sources, it is in fact down to your wireless router and the following recommendations are to be found - Follow in order if you can and test at each stage

1. Do an update of the firmware on your router (remember to back it up first)

2. Change the channel of your wireless router to 1 or 11 (it seems that the Wii prefers these for some reason with 1 being optimal)

3. Put your Wii on a Static address at least 11 higher then your router (i.e. 192.168.1.12) (this needs to occur both on the Wii and the Router)

4. forward all available UDP ports, usually 1 to 65534, to the IP address that you have assigned your Nintendo Wii. You do this in the port forwarding section of your router.

5. Provide the Wii with some compatitable DNS servers. Go to https://www.opendns.com/start?device=nintendo-wii and follow the instructions on there.

6. If above fails to help then open up a DMZ for the wii on the router (allows it to by-pass the router firewall) or just disable the firewall on the router

Hopefully if you follow these instructions in order then it should solve the problem for you (no promises like)

Finally I have to say sorry for not appearing for the races last night, a Jacket Potato with Ragu sauce on it was calling my name stronger then the Wii did :-S

[zephyr]

I was getting this error but after a short time I stopped getting it. The workd rounds suggest that it is router based and thus connection based but I am not convinced as the connection must be their in order to see your friends and attempt to join them in the first place. The Nintendo site says that this is often just a temporary issue and resolves itself. My guess it is actually a server issue i.e. a problem at the server that manages the connections.

[Ant]

I'd connected many times with no problems, and then suddenly got it the other night for the first time. And then it went away again, all without my touching any settings at my end. This really makes me doubt very strongly that it's anything to do with routers. I reckon it's all at the server end.

[LuvPeckham]

I had to do a lot of research as I always got it, and now witht he work arounds, I don't .... it is true that sometimes there is a server issue, but for a lot of people, the above workaround solves the problem. I think it also depends on how games firendly your router and firewall is !!

[Ant]

Hm, you're right. What I should have said was: I doubt it's anything to do with my router, and that the problem was at the server end on that occasion. For other people it may be their router, or it may be the server. Horses courses etc.

[SeanMacGabhann]

The whole connectivity side of the Wii sounded dreadful compared to a 360 before I got myself a Wii

Now I know it's dreadful compared to etc etc

Downloading software means I have to stare at a screen for 15-20 minutes and not be able to do anything else on it?? It's 2008 ninty - sort it!

[Keef]

Sorry, putting this post on 2 threads to get responses.

Has anyone had trouble getting gamecube games to work on Wii? Keep putting different disks in, and it just won't read them! Very annoying, as I have loads of Gamecube games I want to revisit / start!!!

Could just set the gamecube up again, but that's beside the point! :X