Wiis Go To Eleven

Just wanted to post a friendly little tip for anyone who might be having problems getting their Wii to talk to their wireless network.

I recently got FiOS, which meant a new wireless router.
I also recently got Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which gave me a reason to fire up my Wii.

I was apparently able to get my Wii to find and connect to my 802.11g network with 64-bit WEP encryption, however any network operations (such as downloading a firmware update or connecting to a game’s Internet server) were failing.

I went into my wireless router’s settings, and saw that the channel (1-11) was set to “Automatic”.
I changed the channel setting to “11″.
I went through the Wii’s setup procedure again, and it worked flawlessly.

So, bottom line: Much like Nigel’s amplifiers, the Wiis go to eleven.

(Is that the plural of Wii? Wiis?)