While this guide is fairly old, we're sure some of you Mac lovers, especially the recently converted, could get some use out of it. If you're unable to utilize the wondrous ease of wireless routing, you can easily acquire an adapter to bridge your PC's connection, but what about Mac users? How are they to get online with their DS and throw some blocks around in Tetris?This guide, which shows you how to turn your Airport into an access point for your DS, is very informative and, while we cannot attest to how easy the guide is to follow (we own PCs), we're sure you Apple fans will get it in no time. I mean, you guys are smarter than us, right?
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7-18-2006 @ 12:57PM
unreal mccoy said...
We might not be smarter, but we're definitely more pretentious.
see: "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" ads...
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7-18-2006 @ 12:59PM
unreal mccoy said...
This actually describes how to use your Mac itself as an access point, not the Airport router.
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7-18-2006 @ 1:06PM
Mister Sleep said...
Setting up the DS to use the Airport router isn't especially difficult. I'm not sure what the problem is. The only thing that you might need that isn't immediately obvious is the WEP key... which you can get by using the Airport admin utility and selecting the "WEP equivalent key" (or something like that) from one of the menus.
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7-18-2006 @ 2:14PM
Paul said...
Have a look at my blog, I have done a Tutorial about Mac Airport Extreme and Nintendo DS Lite - getting online... Comments welcomed
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7-18-2006 @ 2:48PM
Jackson Pritt said...
If you use an Apple Airport Express as your WAP you won't need to do any setup at all. I've been using an Airport Express for wireless for my Powerbook, and the DS automatically recognized it. I did zero setup and I've had absolutely no problems.
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7-18-2006 @ 3:38PM
Craig said...
Indeed, this is for using a mac with a wired connection ot the internet to use its 'internet sharing' feature to make the Mac itself act as the access point for the DS.
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7-18-2006 @ 3:53PM
LongshotX said...
Other than a Airport Express what is another good router?
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7-18-2006 @ 3:53PM
JBGUY2K said...
I should set this up for my friend later today. He's had to go elsewhere to play online.
to mccoy:
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513
Though I still do have to agree to some of the commercials.
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7-18-2006 @ 7:56PM
Dread Lord CyberSkull said...
The problem is in part that the default security setting is WPA, while the DS only supports the less secure WEP.
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7-18-2006 @ 8:15PM
Beanie said...
I helped my girlfriend's sister set up her powerbook to share its wired connection in her dorm this past year and it worked great! I didn't need the guide though, :-P
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7-19-2006 @ 12:48AM
Rob Martinez said...
I was surprised and really pissed at how easy this was. Did it like 2 months ago when I first got my iMac, and cursed the fact that I had bought a Wi-Fi adaptor when I was on Windows ;_;
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7-19-2006 @ 1:03AM
Andrew Hsieh said...
Actually, it's not such "ease" with a Netgear/Linksys router.
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7-19-2006 @ 5:44PM
Frederik said...
Yes; we're smarter, better looking, funnier, and more modest.
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7-19-2006 @ 9:57PM
m said...
I had my powerbook act as an access point for my DS for a few months (shortly after Kart came out) before I bought a wireless router. I haven't bothered to read the article but it was really easy to set up. And it worked really well provided I was within 10-15 feet of my PB.
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