Hotspots.....

Noobsaibot21

Word,

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any Hotspots In Dublin that work with Nintendo's WiFi. Will it work in the Mc Cafe on Grafton Street? Or O'Briens on Westmoreland St?

Regards,
Noobsaibot21

Cabelo

Hit up Stephen's Green, Ive found 4 that work with my PSP for free in there I reckon the DS'll have no issues.

1huge1

same question but for limerick?

corblimey

...and also for Cork?

(I heard a [pretty funny] McDonald's ad this morning where they were claiming 50 outlets around the country now have free WiFi - there's nothing on their .ie site, but surely a list exists somewhere)

Noobsaibot21

Well,

I tried it in McDonalds on Grafton Street and it connected but Eircom wouldn't allow it access

If McDonalds were to enable free WiFi anywhere, This would be the likely outlet so that seems like rubish (or else they haven't done it yet)

Where abouts in Stephens Green Centre? Is it in That restaraunt on the first floor?

iganokage

looking for cork ones here also....

I've tried a good few "open" (ie. unlocked on the DS WFC menu) hotspots but no luck at any. This includes the SMART wifi across the city, the BT Openworld hotspots mainly in O'Briens (which sucks because BT openworld are supposed to have a deal with nintendo, at least they do in the UK ) and even a couple of netcafe ones (web workhouse for one, this was the one we got furthest one.... all others just stayed on testing connection for ages, this one mentioned something about unable to obtain IP address and check DHCP settings... however the guy there said hes had a couple of PSPs able to get online there easily so i dunno )

if anyone knows one the info would be much appreciated!

1huge1

Noobsaibot21 wrote:

Well,

I tried it in McDonalds on Grafton Street and it connected but Eircom wouldn't allow it access

If McDonalds were to enable free WiFi anywhere, This would be the likely outlet so that seems like rubish (or else they haven't done it yet)

Where abouts in Stephens Green Centre? Is it in That restaraunt on the first floor?

ya i was in macdonalds and i got connected to a eircom hotspot that was unlocked (only one i found) but it just said testing the connection and after like 4mins i just turned it of

Karoma

AFAIK, you have to ask for a voucher/token to allow access to their WiFi.
Have a look and search in the Wireless forums for hotspots..
(Presuming that the DS can connect to most standard WiFi infrastructure networks..)

1huge1

i wonder how your supposed to use the voucher on a ds?
were do you buy these vouchers?

stev2604

iganokage wrote:

looking for cork ones here also....

I've tried a good few "open" (ie. unlocked on the DS WFC menu) hotspots but no luck at any. This includes the SMART wifi across the city, the BT Openworld hotspots mainly in O'Briens (which sucks because BT openworld are supposed to have a deal with nintendo, at least they do in the UK ) and even a couple of netcafe ones (web workhouse for one, this was the one we got furthest one.... all others just stayed on testing connection for ages, this one mentioned something about unable to obtain IP address and check DHCP settings... however the guy there said hes had a couple of PSPs able to get online there easily so i dunno )

if anyone knows one the info would be much appreciated!

On the o2 catalogue says theres a wireless hotspot in the maryborough house hotel in Douglas.

jonnybadd

With the McDonalds one you go to the counter and ask for a token thingy. On it has the pre-share key to access the network, but the type of encryption thats used is not supported by the DS so I don't believe it will work.

speedboatchase

I was actually in the Lucan McDonalds today but didn't have my DS on me! I'm gonna bring it to the Food Court in liffey valley before work tomorrow and see what the story is. What's this wifi voucher everyone's talking about? I'm sure if I mentioned it to the McDonalds ppl they wouldn't have a clue what I'm talkin about, even if they spoke English which is a bonus!

Rew

Its a bit of paper with a code and instructions for getting online. Most of them opperate on a login to a web page but the DS dosn't support that.