- The actual metroids in Metroid are scary. The music gets all low, you can hear your heartbeat, and then they phase through the wall to eat your face. I hadn’t run in the game until tonight, when I ran outta missiles. “Game over, man! Game over!”
- To unwind from unwinding, I played some Strikers. The connection lag was horrible. I played through it but got very frustrated. I tried browsing the Wii Store (since my Wii Internet browser was running so slow) and it locked up and gave me error code 209600.
I finally decided to check support.nintendo.com. Timed out error code, check router. My MacBook works just fine, so why would the Wii have trouble? I don’t know if you’ve heard this, but change your router channel to 11 instead of 6 and wow!
I tried Madden 08 but everyone was in a game. I tried Strikers and I got my face handed to me, but this time it was because of an 8 year-old prodigy in Idaho instead of lag.
- Now I just need to try out Heroes 2…
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Actually, it looked like the Madden server was having issue. Only 18 people online? Strikers was coming through just fine with the regional leaderboard.
Changing the channel “to 11 instead of 6″ won’t necessarily fix the issue. It all has to do with how many routers you’ve got transmitting on different channels around your house… the default for a couple of the major brands of routers is 6, which means that channel gets easily saturated, but if everyone in the neighborhood followed your advice you’d find the same issue happens again. Technically, you should use something like iStumbler to see what networks around you are running on what channel, and then try and carve out a frequency for yourself which isn’t being used by many other things–it’ll reduce interference and can show a significant gain in speed and lag (as you witnessed with the Wii).
I figured you’d finished Metroid a long time ago…
Thanks for the clarification.
When you only play for 30 minutes at a time, games last longer.
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