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How to connect your Wii to an Orange Livebox

Posted on December 8th, 2006 at 4:57 pm

If you’re one of the lucky people to own a Nintendo Wii and have Orange Broadband, formerly Wanadoo, with a Livebox and have had problems getting online using Nintendo Wi-Fi then these tips may help.

First, you have to log on to your Livebox admin control panel using your PC. You can do this by using this URL in your internet brower: http://configuration.adsl/index2.html
When promted for your username and password use ‘admin’ and ‘admin’ if you can’t remember ever changing it before. Make a note of your Livebox name. Mine is WANADOO-B7E8.

Now go to Security -> Firewall and turn the setting to Low (disabled) and press ’submit’. As long as you have a firewall on your PC then it’ll still be safe.

UPDATE: I no longer think you need to do this last step. The default MEDIUM position should be fine.

Then go to Configuration -> Advanced -> Wireless and make sure your setting is ‘WEP security only’. ‘WEP and WPA’ may also work but unless you’re running a WPA encrytped device it’s unnecessary.

Now go to Security -> WEP Connection and make a note of your WEP Security Key. Keep the letter in CAPS as they wont work otherwise. It should be 26 characters long.

Turn on your Wii and go to the Wii Options (bottom left) then select ‘Wii Settings’. Now select ‘Internet’ and then ‘Connection Settings’. Select ‘Connection 1′ and then ‘Wireless Connection’.

Select ‘Search for an Access Point’. The Wii Now looks around for all the signals it can find. Press ‘OK’ and choose the one that matches the Livebox name we wrote down earlier. Move your Wii pointer over the password area and using the virtual Wii keyboard type in your WEP Security Key you found earlier. Press CAPS to make it easier, the number is in Hex so all the characters will be from 0 to 9 or A to F, no ‘I’s or ‘O’s please. *Do next step before anything else.

Go to your actual Livebox itself and look for two little black buttons in a small panel at the back. Press ‘1′, the one on the left. You now have 10 minutes in which to connect your Wii.

Back at the Wii hit ‘Yes’, then ‘OK’, then ‘OK’, then ‘OK’ again. The Wii will now test the connection. Hopefully after 30 seconds you’ll get a ‘The connection test was successful’ message. Well done!

You can now decide whether to perfom a Wii system update, I’d select ‘Yes’ if I were you. The Wii will then spend the next few minutes downloading the latest firmware. Now if you ever use a Wii service that needs the use of the Internet it will automatically connect. There’s no need to ever change any wi-fi settings again!

* Note, this site is not responsible for your Wii if anything were to go wrong with it by following the instructions here.

So, I hope that was of use to people out there. I’ve probably saved you a few hours of frustration or calls to Nintendo or Orange so feel free to send me a bit of cash using this nice little PayPal donate button here if you’re feeling generous or browse the online game stores featured above. Thanks! And have fun!


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118 comments so far.

  1. Billy on the December 8th, 2006 at 11:50 pm said:

    Thanks so much for your help with the Wii connection! Why on earth Nintendo and Orange can’t provide this kind of help is beyond me! Thanks again!

  2. Jonny on the December 10th, 2006 at 2:16 am said:

    I’d send a paypal donation but I’m broke after buying my Wii (with only Sports and Play for now). Lots of love anyway!!! I had no idea about that silly button. Now I know why I’ve always had problems before. ^_^

  3. KingOfMyCastle on the December 10th, 2006 at 12:28 pm said:

    Hey, no problems. I understand. It’s purely voluntary.

    Glad I got you online. Enjoy your Wii!!

  4. Stan on the December 10th, 2006 at 1:24 pm said:

    Hi Mate,

    I got my new Nintendo Wii on friday morning and have had great fun with it (although my body is a bit sore now! lol

    I also took delivery of and set up my Orange Livebox on the same day.
    Unfortunately I have tried with out success to connect my Wii to the internet. Every time I put in the Livebox Wep key I get ‘Error Code: 51330 - Unable to connect to the internet. Chose Internet settingings and then confirm your connection’. I have tried this upteen times since friday with no luck. Don’t suppose you have any ideas? I’d willingly make a paypal donation if you could solve my problem! :-)

    Hope to hear from you soon.

    Stan

  5. KingOfMyCastle on the December 10th, 2006 at 4:28 pm said:

    Hmm, you’ll have to start eliminating possibilities. Have you managed to get use the wi-fi on your Livebox with another device? Borrow a neighbours’ laptop if possible and see if you can log on using your WEP key.

    Also double check your Livebox firewall is turned off. Go to Security/Wireless Connection and check that that you have it broadcasting on channel 1 and Enable Wireless LAN is checked. Try channel 11 if you want.

    Go to Configuration/Update and check that the version is not less than v5.06.2-uk. You may just have to wait for firmware updates if so.

    There’s also the possibility that Nintendo’s own services are down. Try writing the WEP key down again (in HEX CAPS) and give it one more go later - remember to press the correct button (1) on the Livebox. It may just work.

    Good luck!

  6. Chris on the December 17th, 2006 at 10:36 pm said:

    Hi, I really appreciate these intstructions. However, for some reason this has left my laptop (and another networked PC) in a state of some confusion! The connection keeps dropping - not just dropping, but apparently ceasing to exist. The only thing that makes it come back (instantly) is re-entering the WEP key in the connection properties. Do you know what this could mean? Thanks for any help you can offer.

  7. NT on the December 18th, 2006 at 2:22 am said:

    Hi, I think I got further by applying the above, but now I get the error 52030. Any help on this?

  8. KingOfMyCastle on the December 18th, 2006 at 10:35 am said:

    Chris: I think you’ll have to give each device it’s own IP address. See the link below.

    NT: Here’s some help on dealing with 52000 - 52999 errors:

    http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/errors/52000-52099.jsp

  9. littledib on the December 26th, 2006 at 12:25 pm said:

    thanks for your help. it helped a hell of a lot. lol

  10. Oli on the December 26th, 2006 at 10:11 pm said:

    Where do I enter my wep key from the router on my Wii.

    A direct like walk through would be great.

    I.e Wii settings > internet > etc > etc > etc…

  11. KingOfMyCastle on the December 27th, 2006 at 1:39 pm said:

    Yeah, I should write a whole post about that ;)

  12. Adam on the January 5th, 2007 at 12:38 am said:

    Right, I followed all thesteps, got a 52030 error. I followed the link you gave and now I got a 51230 Error. Any help?

  13. Adam on the January 5th, 2007 at 8:15 am said:

    Er, nevermind that last pos; I figured it out; but now I reiceve a error 32002, whch is apparantly not enough space. I’ve only played Wii sports and that surely can’t contain that much space, right?

  14. KingOfMyCastle on the January 5th, 2007 at 10:49 am said:

    Hmm, thats strange. Have a look at this site and tell me if it solves your problem:

    http://www.wiierror.com/wii-error-32002.php

    Good luck!

  15. Adam on the January 5th, 2007 at 6:12 pm said:

    Woo, changing the MTU t 1500 hundred worked, thanks.
    It’s updating now; here’s to good luck.

  16. Adam... again on the January 5th, 2007 at 8:45 pm said:

    RIght, updated once. Came up with System Update. Got stuck halfway through, read about it and restarted the Wii console. Now it isn’t finding the access point.
    Error 51030.

  17. SimZZZZ on the January 27th, 2007 at 4:21 pm said:

    Nice 1 for this guide. much appreciated

    I followed it through but kept getting error 51330, what I did was manually look for devices on the Wii and change the Wii settings to WEP only and it worked fine.updating the Wii now as I type this.

    Cheers.

  18. Aeris on the February 16th, 2007 at 6:14 pm said:

    HiYa =-) I finally got my wii online with orange but my DS still wont connect with my livebox, when I go online with my DS it asks for a WEP Key and when I do enter it from my livebox it wont accept it. Any ideas? Thanks =-D

  19. TheJJBear on the February 18th, 2007 at 11:19 am said:

    Hey Thanks very much for this great advice.
    Got my WII and followed the instructions,everything worked perfectly UNTIL i updated the wii then it would not connect lots of differrent error messages like Error 51030.
    So i deleted my connection from the wii and repeated the above process again now works perfect and the DS connects to the live box no problem as well.
    Orange should print this information as a help sheet that comes with the box and nintendo.

    Cheers and all the best theJJBear.

  20. Mivanp on the February 26th, 2007 at 4:42 pm said:

    Thank u for this info id nearly give up like the other fella said y dont ornage hav this info at hand save me alot of time and effort cheers again matty

  21. Debs on the March 8th, 2007 at 3:05 pm said:

    Hi - Thanks so much for this information - glad I found this just in time - I was about to give up !! THANKS AGAIN - Debs

  22. KENZ on the March 27th, 2007 at 12:27 am said:

    Spent all sunday evening trying to get it to work..Found your site the following day and it took me 30mins..

    The magic button did the trick..and my 360 still works too..

    WII’s are fun but the 360 rules..PS3 does nothing for me

  23. Graham on the April 9th, 2007 at 5:37 pm said:

    The Wii will work with the orange Inventel Livebox using WPA security.

    On the livebox config screen http://configuration.adsl/index2.html

    under security wireless conection make a note of the WEP key

    then under configuration advanced wireless select WPA security, note paring time long enough to get from PC to Wii (say 60mins - can be reduced later once connected)and note down the Livebox Name.

    Under system information make a note of the primary and secondary DNS (under ADSN section).

    Press Button 1 on the Livebox (near USB master socket)

    You now have 60mins to set up your Wii where you need the following settings

    WPA-PSM(TKIP), Auto-Obtain IP Adress-Yes, Auto-Obtain DNS - No

    Enter Primary and secondary DNS obtained before

    Note this final step may need to be redone if the Livebox is switched off (at the mains) or if subjected to an orange update (to be confirmed).

  24. Dawn on the April 24th, 2007 at 7:10 am said:

    Hey there this seems some good advice and i will be putting it into effect as soon as ive dropped the kids of at school. i neither can connect the wii so this will help loads.
    What i wouldnt mind though is … is there any help for connecting the nintendo ds?? im the same as aeris on this one, it just wont accept it. thought i could kill two birds with 1 stone so to speak. ;)
    Ans kingofmycastle, u r a genius…..thank you

  25. KingOfMyCastle on the April 24th, 2007 at 7:26 am said:

    Hi! I have full instructions on how to pair up your Nintendo DS to the Orange Livebox here:

    http://www.kingofmycastle.com/2006/06/19/configure-your-nintendo-ds-with-your-orange-livebox/

  26. Mitchell Edwards on the May 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm said:

    This website is the best along with Bramley Apple for livebox issues. Thanks guys. :D

  27. Tim on the May 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pm said:

    Graham, I can’t connect with WPA security! I followed those steps, typed in DNS etc, but it can’t connect to the internet. Is there a way to connect just finding my WPA password (which incidentally I cannot find).

  28. Oli on the June 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pm said:

    Cheers mate, i didnt realise u needed to press that stupid pairing button, thanks alot

  29. dagan on the June 5th, 2007 at 7:14 am said:

    hi there King, ive tried what you suggested with the wep security, however if i select this then my laptop will no longer connect to the network, it says limited or no connectivity. obviously i dont want to have to change livebox settings every time when alternating between wii and laptop, any ideas on how this can be solved??

  30. Tim on the June 5th, 2007 at 3:06 pm said:

    Dagan, I had the same problem but solved it. The way to do it is to follow Graham’s steps- that way you have WAP security on your livebox, can connect to your wii and your internet connection should also be absolutely fine. Give it a shot, should work.

  31. dagan on the June 5th, 2007 at 8:56 pm said:

    hi there, tks Tim just got home from work and tried it and it worked straight away and laptop still up and running hence posting this, tks to graham for posting and tks to the king himself for his constant hard work, best site ive come accross yet.

    Message to the King, i will gladly donate a handsome sum of money to your paypal account or send you some jd or champagne to an address ( i work in a wine store)whichever you prefer, if you could help me set up my ps 2 to the orange live box and my new spv m3100 contract phone wi fi connection. my ps 2 has never worked wirelessly and the spv i have being trying things and reading forums for 3 days straight so really need some help.

    thanks again to all that helped me set up the wii, time to go play some bowling against my mate in the states….

  32. nick on the June 10th, 2007 at 1:43 am said:

    thankyou so much! you lovely lovely person!!!!

  33. paddy on the June 28th, 2007 at 12:31 am said:

    u absolute legend!!!

    seriously ….. big time king!

  34. Dave on the July 7th, 2007 at 11:07 pm said:

    Cheers mate,

    we had loads of trouble setting our laptop up on the livebox and when the wii didn’t connect straight away i started to curse the livebox!!! (again)

    But…

    your instructions are easy enough that even i can do them…

    i read one of the previous comments about nintendo and orange not providing this info - surely it would cut there call centre calls no end.

    much thanks

    dave

  35. simon on the July 22nd, 2007 at 11:36 am said:

    You are a legend - thank you for this help. I would donate but words are better than money aren’t they? Right? Right???

    Thanks

  36. Punisher 36O on the July 31st, 2007 at 1:09 pm said:

    thanks alot friend, there aint enough ppl in the world like u dude
    good gaming :D

  37. Scott on the August 5th, 2007 at 7:19 pm said:

    hello, thank you for helping me! its taken me ages to set it up and now you have told me :D byee

  38. Wiinternet on the August 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 pm said:

    You are an actual living legend! thank you!

  39. Gary on the August 28th, 2007 at 11:32 am said:

    I FREAKIN LOVE YOU.

    Stupid Orange and Nintendo ‘HELP’ centres.

    I can’t believe how easy this was, i spent hours trying to connect.

  40. xxsajxx on the September 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm said:

    hi thanx a lot. u have saved me a lot of trouble. i would have given you a little donation but i cant as i am broke after buying this. anyway thanx again.

  41. Toby on the September 9th, 2007 at 6:02 pm said:

    Just wanted to say thank you, spent ages farting about with my livebox settings but had forgot to hit the button on the box itself!

    If only I had googled and found your page first!

  42. Danny on the September 16th, 2007 at 7:20 pm said:

    You are amzing. Pure Ledge! LOL i can play strikers online now !!!!

  43. Jodie on the September 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am said:

    Hi there. Am a single mum with four boys, and am desperate to get there wii on internet for them, but constantly for four days now getting the error code, 52030? Could you help? In Easy to follow terms, would gladly donate something if you can get our wii up and running on internet!!! Thanks, ps have tried various sites and all too confusing to follow!!

  44. Melv on the September 24th, 2007 at 9:21 am said:

    Nice one. Was beginning to get a bit stressed as I couldn’t figure out what to do (ex IT support as well!!)
    Your tips above did the job.

    Thanks

  45. Ru on the September 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pm said:

    Thanks for your help mate. By the way, setting up my wii did not work at first using WEP key. I tried by WEP key password for a diffrent security key setting and for ome reason it worked! So like me if you got a wierd error code just try the password for different security keys…

  46. mark on the October 2nd, 2007 at 6:00 pm said:

    thanks very much!both this and “how to connect your ds” where very helpful to me!thanks alot for taking the time to do these guides

  47. Belly on the October 29th, 2007 at 11:29 pm said:

    I have followed your instructions and managed to get my Wii connected to the orange livebox. I then opted to update but after about 20 mins the progress bar stopped moving. It stayed the same for another 20 minutes then the Wii just froze. None of the handsets worked, and I couldn’t even turn it off! I resorted to unplugging the Wii, just to return my TV to normal usage. Now the Wii will not turn on. What have I done and how can I fix it? I’ve tried the reset button but nothing happens. It is as if the Wii has just died!. Help!!
    Thanks

  48. jinkzz on the October 30th, 2007 at 11:36 am said:

    god bless your soul .living ledge

  49. Anna on the November 8th, 2007 at 1:16 am said:

    Thanks a lot. Great easy to follow advice. Keep it up.

    xxxx

  50. Mo on the November 16th, 2007 at 5:35 pm said:

    Thank you very much took me bout 3 days and i still couldnt figure it out.. :)

    This was very helpful as the orange livebox has so many problems.. i needed a guide to connect it to my psp, and my Wii it’s pretty annoying.

    tyvm.

    #Mo…

  51. Arthur on the December 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm said:

    U R A LEGEND I LOVE YOU! =D

  52. Arthur on the December 2nd, 2007 at 7:50 pm said:

    and o ye orange suck compared 2 u! they were so unhelpful about it, Nintendo 2!

  53. Ben on the December 2nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm said:

    Fantastic!!!! you have no idea how many hours i wasted tryin to do this myself!
    Massive help!
    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  54. Craig on the December 5th, 2007 at 10:05 pm said:

    Your a genius!! Followed it word for word and it worked! In fact it was the same way i had to set up the MacOSX. Would donate if i was on Paypal but unfortunately not.
    thanks again ur a legend!!!!!!

  55. Richard on the December 7th, 2007 at 8:27 pm said:

    Nice one.

  56. Matt on the December 15th, 2007 at 9:25 pm said:

    Thanks alot mate i am now connected.

  57. Tom on the December 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 pm said:

    Thank you SO MUCH for the info! Was tearing out my hair ’til I read this, and now everything’s sorted!

  58. Sean on the December 28th, 2007 at 8:45 pm said:

    Many thanks for your helpful walkthrough. I second the comments on why Orange and Nintendo cannot produce simple and clear instructions.
    You have saved my bacon, not to mention my pride in front of the family - “how difficult can it be Dad!”

    Cheers

  59. james on the December 29th, 2007 at 11:12 am said:

    Thanks a bunch mate. That was great advice… Something so easy is a nightmare if you don’t know what you are doing… Thanks again….

  60. Mike on the December 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm said:

    Used the WEP settings and the wii worked fine but my wireless laptop now wont connect to the livebox. Do i just follow the instructions given by Graham (No 23) ??

    Thanks

  61. susan on the January 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm said:

    thanks for your help went through loads of other site and were of no help followed your instructions and i am now updating thanks again.

  62. James on the January 1st, 2008 at 9:00 pm said:

    Thanks so much for your help. Tried loads of things to sort this and you have come up trumps. Thanks for taking the time out to help people like me sort this prob. Well Done Sir.

  63. Ian on the January 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm said:

    Just want to say a very big thank you for your helpful comments. Using the above my wii connected first time! I left the firewall settings at medium and also the security as WEP & WPA as per the Livebox default.

  64. jake on the January 7th, 2008 at 10:55 pm said:

    thanks so much, been struggling for about a year to connect to the internet, highly appreciated. cheers

  65. Johnny Gemba on the January 9th, 2008 at 4:51 am said:

    U the man

  66. Marko on the January 12th, 2008 at 2:05 am said:

    cheers mate - had almost given up - forgot about having to press that pesky number 1 button

    Mucchhooosss gracias !!!

  67. alan on the January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am said:

    alright folks need help.can’t get my wii connected to my livebox.

    where do i find the button 1 i need to press have searched my livebox and don’t see any little black buttons.

    please help(do all liveboxes have these buttons?)

  68. KingOfMyCastle on the January 14th, 2008 at 5:51 pm said:

    It’s on a little panel on the perspex shell, at the bottom, down from the lights. There’s two small grey buttons that are hard to see next to a USB port.

  69. chichi on the January 17th, 2008 at 6:08 pm said:

    I salute u sir!!!!

  70. chris on the January 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am said:

    followed the steps exactly and still getting error code: 101305 with orange livebox 31b8 why did they make it so impossible just to get on the internet with your wii its really puting me off thanks for all the help u can give or cant give in advance mabye nintendo should think about employing you to sort it out lol

  71. Ed'n'Mum on the January 28th, 2008 at 4:11 pm said:

    Brilliant - thank you. Why didn’t I just search the web first for ideas - both Orange and Nintenedo have been no help at all. It was the pairing button we needed, plus changing the default security setting that the Wii found to WEP.

    Thanks again!

  72. chris on the February 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm said:

    tryed-following-steps-again-last-night-and-it-worked-thank-you-very-much-i-was-just-about-to-give-up-lol-nice-1

  73. Connection problem - sorry to be a pain - Gnutella Forums on the February 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm said:

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  74. Gaz on the February 28th, 2008 at 6:56 pm said:

    Hi

    It seems when i go into the livebox settings and change it from WPA to WEP, my laptop internet crashes and refuses to re-establish a connection. Is there any way to maybe keep it as WPA-PSK (TKIP) and use the connection on the wii, because I have NO IDEA how to find my WPA key and no-one seems able to tell me :’( please help me! I would be happy to make a paypal donation if you did :)

  75. Nixey on the March 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm said:

    I owe you a pint mate…I f**cking love you ^_^

    I spent ages the other day…and I thought why me…Now its as though im blessed lol.

    Thanks alot kid

  76. jack on the March 5th, 2008 at 7:08 am said:

    Hi ive done all of that but when i turned it off the button where you turn it off goes orange… is that ok

  77. Jack on the March 8th, 2008 at 9:38 am said:

    thanx it worked i was forgetting to type wep key in caps and press the 1
    button

  78. kiran on the April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 pm said:

    thank you so much i was trying for hours trying to get my wi-fi thanx so much. god bless u i so owe u. i wish i could give u something.

  79. Alex on the April 13th, 2008 at 6:46 pm said:

    Hi,
    Thank you so much for this help!!
    I have been tying to connect my wii to the internet since christmas and have finally suceeded thanks to your help !!
    thanks again !!

  80. Rob on the April 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm said:

    Thanks an absolute ton. I haven’t been able to get online since october 2007, all because no one or no where told me to use caps lock on my wep key, except you. You rule!!!

  81. Gajan on the April 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am said:

    GOOD STUFF MATE! one thing to add is you might need to change the channel number on livebox configuration. I had to change mine to 13.

  82. Hayley on the April 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am said:

    Hey There,

    Ive been trying to get my wii to connect to my live box for weeks and no one could help. i agree with the first cooment, why nintendo and orange cant tell you how to do it in these simple terms is a mystery

    Your advise is simple and fantastic. i didnt have to change a thing.

    Thanks again.

  83. matt on the April 20th, 2008 at 6:23 pm said:

    HELP

    i have a computer on windows xp
    one on vista
    and a mac all on my live box
    when i did your steps the vista and xp went offline and would not reconnect when i changed the settings back all the computers worked the wii didnt and i cant reconnect it
    please reply i am in desperate need of help thanks matt

  84. Hoss on the April 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm said:

    Dude! I pulled my hair out and then there you were. Thanks a million fella. This page explained the problem like no other source.

  85. Charles on the April 28th, 2008 at 5:22 pm said:

    To King Of My Castle,

    When I read this page it all looked so much like it would work and I was extremely confident that it would work. I did all the steps you told me, everything! But then, when I went onto my beloved Wii, I searched for an access point and…nothing was found!
    Please can you tell me what may be wrong a.s.a.p! Thanks, John!

    Also, I think this is a great website and it is amazing you made it with Wordpress and well-done to you!

    Thanks John! You have been a good help.

  86. Charles on the April 28th, 2008 at 5:29 pm said:

    Please can you still concentrate on my last comment, but I just need to say something…

    I am sorry, but I can’t donate anything to PayPal. Sorry, mate! I am only a kid and I am not getting any pocket money right now. My Dad is an engineer and he is in Nigeria fixing up a town and he told my Mum to give me £5.00 every week so I can…do stuff ;)!!! Lol! I would probably give some money but I am skint, broke and have empty pockets (Yeah, I know they mean the same thing!)

    Charles

  87. Andrea on the April 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm said:

    thankyou very much you have saved me a forture for not having to ring orange 50p a minute charge, your A LEGEND.thanks again.
    Andrea

  88. Gaz on the May 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 pm said:

    Hi

    It seems when i go into the livebox settings and change it from WPA to WEP, my laptop internet crashes and refuses to re-establish a connection. Is there any way to maybe keep it as WPA-PSK (TKIP) and use the connection on the wii, because I have NO IDEA how to find my WPA key and no-one seems able to tell me :’( please help me! I would be happy to make a paypal donation if you did :D

  89. Charles on the May 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm said:

    He ain’t answering!!

  90. nert on the May 5th, 2008 at 6:57 am said:

    Login to your router (192.168.1.1), it’s under security | wireless connection.

    However, I have a DS, and a Livebox and will *never* use the two together. Why? Because disabling WPA as a security measure is A Very Stupid Thing To Do.

    Please see here: http://missig.org/julian/blog/2005/11/16/nintendo-ds-supporting-wpa/ - and disable WPA at your own risk. If people start piggy-backing your now UNSECURED network, it’s caveat emptor all the way to Orange asking what the hell you’ve been doing with your connection.

    n

  91. Solo on the May 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm said:

    Thanks so so much.
    All i had to do was set the firewall to low.
    that was annoying me for hours!
    thanks!

  92. bumblesquat on the May 8th, 2008 at 6:05 pm said:

    Your a star, thanks. It worked fine after I’d done the Configuration -> Advanced -> Wireless and make sure your setting is ‘WEP security only’ bit.

  93. sam on the May 9th, 2008 at 9:05 pm said:

    thank you. your a star thanks for saving me ringing up orange or nintedo. followed your insructions got connected straight away thanks.

  94. Bigmondy on the May 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm said:

    Fantastic……….. saved phoning premium rate numbers. I doth my cap good sir!

  95. tamsin (age 10) on the May 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm said:

    thank you for helping me to connect my wii to the internet, the instruction book that comes with the wii is abit rubbish at telling you how to connect.
    from tamsin age 10yrs

  96. liz on the May 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm said:

    Hey thanks. Usualy this stuff is like rocket science for me but you made it easy. I agree with the comment why carnt orange or nintendo come up with this info for us. thanks again anyways :) xx

  97. stef on the May 29th, 2008 at 2:25 pm said:

    Mine still won’t work. Tried a million different ways, getting 51330 and 51331 mainly. When I changed my livebox settings to WEP only a few weeks back I absolutely mauled my internet and had to pay someone to fix it, not a happy bunny.

    Im getting quite annoyed and am wondering if a new router would be best as I’ve had nothing but trouble with the livebox. :(

  98. Ade on the June 11th, 2008 at 9:36 am said:

    These instructions totally worked first time round, magic!!!!

  99. Sam on the July 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm said:

    Thought this link had saved me. I have already done all of this and I know about the buttons on the back of the router. Fed up of searching for help with this. This router sucks…

  100. Henry on the July 8th, 2008 at 7:09 pm said:

    Mate, you’re a total legend. Thank you!!!

  101. CRR on the July 9th, 2008 at 8:44 pm said:

    Thanks sooooo much! I have spent the past year (or so) trying to find out how to do this! Its frustrsting that all it took was 1 button press! :-D

  102. Awk on the July 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm said:

    Thank you, saved from much frustration! What would we do if kind people like you didn’t post this stuff?

    Now I can check the weather without having to look out of the window, ah technology!

  103. usmaan ajaz on the July 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm said:

    STILL NEED HELP MAN THE SAME ERROR CODE COMES UP 51330 ARGH IM SO ANGRY

  104. mart on the July 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm said:

    Thanks for the advice on the connection - really helped. Sorry to be a thickie but should I reactivate the livebox firewall now I have the wii connected or will that mess everything up?

    Thank you

  105. Jane on the July 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm said:

    I am trying to set the Wii up on the internet for my son without success. We have orange broadband. We always get message 51330 and after reading your page i have tried the pairing button but the same thing happens. Still get message 51330.
    Also i think the pairing time may be set to 0 minutes (although I am not sure about this)
    We are using WPA-TKIP
    I have read that perhaps I should change the router to mixed mode but i have absolutely no idea how to do this.

    I would be very grateful for any help you can give.
    Thanks so much

  106. mitchell on the August 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am said:

    thanx man very clearly was your explanation!

  107. Emma on the August 20th, 2008 at 11:01 pm said:

    Hi thanks for your help, my wii is now connected and I can happily wii my life away !! I am so glad there are people like you out there to help.
    You explained it so well and was very quick and easy to understand, after trawling the internet for an explanation for months I just wish I had come across you first.
    MANY MANY THANKS

  108. Kizzie Atkinson/Jake Atkinson (Stoke,UK) on the August 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm said:

    Thank You
    Again

    Ds & Wii

    Are Working

    yay:D

    You Have My Up Most Repect !

  109. James on the August 28th, 2008 at 6:31 pm said:

    Hello, I have tried everything you have said yet I still get this message when testing the livebox connection:

    Error Code: 51331 Unable to connect to the internet. Chose Internet settings and then confirm your connection. Visit support.nintendo.com for assistance.

    Any help? Nintendo offer none :I

    Thanks,

    James

    P.S Maybe send the help to an email anyone?

    Jamsterjay07@hotmail.co.uk

  110. sam on the September 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am said:

    i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you, seriously this worked a treat, amazing, cant thank you enough.

  111. Star on the September 8th, 2008 at 3:19 pm said:

    Thank you so much for this guide! Had a livebox at my last house and it connected my Wii with just the use of the pairing button. Moved house and got a new live box, and couldnt for love nor money get it to connect. Read your guide logged into my admin thing and got my WEP code, painless and easy!! thank you thank you thank you! Mario Kart here i come!!! xxxx

  112. Philip James on the September 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pm said:

    Many thanks.

  113. Andy Russell on the September 18th, 2008 at 7:57 pm said:

    Hi there, while reading these posts and struggling to get my wii online, I managed it by realising I was entering in the WPA security code in lower case letters. I changed them to upper case and it worked first time. Hope this helps some one else!

  114. adie on the October 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm said:

    thanks SOOOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!

    this is great. i got none of this info from either companies! thanks!

  115. Jazzie on the October 29th, 2008 at 11:27 pm said:

    Thank you SO much! I’ve been sitting here for nearly 4 hours solid trying to get this to work, tried everything under the sun and thanks to you it works now! Again, thank you SOOO much!

  116. Jon on the November 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm said:

    hey great instructions - thanks!! you reminded me about the liveboxes crazy lil number 1 button - thats what was foolin me.

    i got by without changing any livebox settings (i.e. firewall)… probably a good idea to remove that tip altogether, dont want people downgrading their security unneccesarily…

    but anyway really great page, thanks for your help,
    jon.

  117. vickie on the November 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 pm said:

    yaaay! thankyou! i am totally clueless when it comes to stuff like this, and the nintendo faq was no help at all. i am so glad i stumbled upon your page - i had been trying to connect for like, hours to no avail. hero!

  118. Sean on the November 15th, 2008 at 2:15 pm said:

    OMG THANKYOU SO MUCH!!! ive been having a problm with my wii for months now and this fixed it! THANK YOU!

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