Blacklisted by Nintendo?

[charles hawtrey]

Hey guys,  problem... not sure if this is the correct place. 

I can't connect my wii the internet. I just get 52230 error code back from the wii.  I know, such a noob problem... router isn't set up or some stupid mistake, right?  I've tried all kinds but I still can't connect.  It used to connect.

If I set up the connection details manually on the wii, then repeatedly ping the IP I selected for the wii from my PC while the wii is attempting to connect... I get a reply, the IP is assigned and the wii is replying, it's worked? Nah. Drops, 52230.

If I visit nintendo.com directly from a web browser. I can't see it!  It's refusing my connection. So what's happening, the wii gets a connection fine, then checks the connection by calling home - can't see it and throws an error.

If I connect my browser through the tor network proxy I can see nintendo.com fine. 

so are nintendo blocking my static IP?? Why?

[Rik]

Sorry, as a non-gamer I can't help you, but I'm sure someone will be along shortly who can.

What router are you using?

[charles hawtrey]

Its a pretty old noname conexant router + a less old belkin wifi access point, but I don't think it's a router /wifi problem I think nintendo.com are blocking my idnet ip which seems odd to me.   

[Rik]

It's always possible that your IP has been blocked. Have you tried manually pinging the site from the PC?

[Glenn]

Have you tried putting the Wii in a DMZ (I don't know if that is possible with your router)?

[Steve]

Trouble is he cant browse to www.nintendo.com on the PC so IP address is blocked is my guess.

[charles hawtrey]

Thanks guys, not sure about the DMZ, or even if that would help.  Pretty sure it has something to do with nintendo refusing my IP - even to connect to their website.   Tried setting up the wii's connection via a free proxy and it got past the initial connection test! But didn't really work very well, to be expected really, don't hold much faith in dodgy free web proxies. 

But seems to point to my IP being refused by nintendo.  Does anyone know if I can change my idnet static IP?

[Rik]

Talk to support, though they'll probably advise you to contact Nintendo in the first place to get unblocked. Have you checked all your machines for malware?

[Steve]

http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check may or may not throw up something?



http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/service/contact_2095.html

[charles hawtrey]

Get green ticks for those blacklist sites.

Trying a nintendo.com ping now and its stuck... ah...

360 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 359010ms

Not tested for malware, but nintendo.com  won't connect from my laptop (ubuntu, surely malware free), my gf's win7 laptop and my main windows PC, also the actual wii too it seems.

You reckon someone at nintendo will unblock my ip

EDIT: thanks for the nintendo link... but can't see it.

[Glenn]

Can you ping from the router?

[charles hawtrey]

Don't think I can ping from router, it's a pretty old thing

[Rik]

Trying a nintendo.com ping now and its stuck... ah...

360 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 359010ms

Same here, it may not respond to ICMP traffic, of course. Try a tracert, I got to hop 12, then it timed out.

tracert www.nintendo.com

Tracing route to nintendo.com [192.195.204.26]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.254
  2    29 ms    13 ms    13 ms  telehouse-gw2-lo1.idnet.net [212.69.63.51]
  3    14 ms    13 ms    11 ms  telehouse-gw3-g0-1-400.idnet.net [212.69.63.243]
  4    11 ms    13 ms    13 ms  gi8-27.mpd01.lon02.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.148.205]
  5    13 ms    13 ms    13 ms  206.24.170.13
  6     *          15 ms    13 ms  204.70.206.61
  7    85 ms    88 ms    84 ms  cr1-pos-0-8-0-0.NewYork.savvis.net [204.70.192.121]
  8    89 ms       *           *       hr1-vlan-240.Weehawkennj2.savvis.net [204.70.197.14]
  9    84 ms    84 ms    86 ms  hr2-tenge-13-2.Weehawkennj2.savvis.net [216.35.78.6]
10    90 ms    90 ms    89 ms  hr1-ten-1-0-0.jerseycitynj1.savvis.net [204.70.196.74]
11    89 ms    88 ms    90 ms  csr21-ve242.Jerseycitynj1.savvis.net [216.32.223.59]
12    89 ms    90 ms    90 ms  209.185.186.18
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.

[Technical Ben]

I notice your not using a wifi-router-modem in one? My first guess would be that the prot forwarding is not setup correctly for the Wifi ---> router connection. Or that it cannot meet the particular needs of the Wii. An example being, my bro got the original DS. It used a different security (WEP instead of WPA, or WPA2 only). Our Wifi router used the opposite type. So the only way to connect was to turn off all passwords. 
The new DS and wifi routers are all compatible with WEP, WPA WPA2 etc now I think.

[pctech]

The original DS did indeed only support WEP.

[Technical Ben]

The original DS did indeed only support WEP.

Hence my failing, WEP needs you to know how to make a code for it. WPA just asks you to type a pass, and it makes one for you.