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#1 AndyG

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 04:58 AM

I have been considering getting one of the LAN adapters for WiiU for the purpose of online when i'm over at a friends house (he doesn't have wireless). I remember ages ago, someone posted about having data speed problems despite having relatively fast internet. I just want to know, has this been fixed and would it be ok to buy a cheap adapter off Ebay for $10 rather than pay $50 for the official.

 

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 05:06 AM

Just bring your router with you.

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 05:26 AM

I used to have one for my Wii and it worked great, it's a lot faster than Wi-Fi and also more reliable. Not sure about the issues you've mentioned.


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Posted 06 September 2013 - 08:19 AM

Does the Wii U support LAN adaptors? I don't know. they discontinued the original one shortly into the original Wii's lifetime.


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Posted 06 September 2013 - 12:43 PM

Yes it does support them.

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 01:34 PM

buy a cheap wireless router on ebay and call it a day.

LAN IMO isnt all that any more.


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Posted 06 September 2013 - 01:56 PM

Does the Wii U support LAN adaptors? I don't know. they discontinued the original one shortly into the original Wii's lifetime.


You can use the same LAN adapter made for the Wii on the Wii U.

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 08:05 PM

Does the Wii U support LAN adaptors? I don't know. they discontinued the original one shortly into the original Wii's lifetime.

They have official WiiU ones available in store, the only down fall is that there around AUS$50 a pop.


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Posted 07 September 2013 - 03:23 PM

Yes they did fix the speed issues.

http://thewiiu.com/t...-on-wiiu-os-30/


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Posted 07 September 2013 - 09:53 PM

Yes they did fix the speed issues.

http://thewiiu.com/t...-on-wiiu-os-30/

But do you think connection speeds will be ok considering that im only able to get a peak of 1.5mb/s on my PC, some of you are talking about having onwards of 20+mb/s, for Australia you would be lucky if you had a connection speed of 5mb/s.


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Posted 08 September 2013 - 01:00 PM

I'm in aus and use wireless without an issue.

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#12 Alex Atkin UK

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Posted 13 September 2013 - 02:22 PM

With only 5Mbit broadband you are probably fine with WiFi. 

 

Personally I would still always prefer the LAN adapter though, as WiFi is getting pretty overloaded these days so your neighbors can actually slow you down.  Especially for online gaming it should be more reliable over the LAN adapter.

 

If speeds seem a bit low its also worth trying an external HDD or USB stick, as it seems the Wii U internal memory can slow things down ESPECIALLY if a game starts installing in the background and you try to quit a game.


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