How do I connect my Nintendo DS to Nintendo WFC through my Apple Time Capsule?

You should try to find out what Port the Nintendo DS uses to access WFC and open it through the Apple software for the wireless router aspect of the Time Capsule. This is just a guess though, I’ll research for a proper answer.

Off topic- How do you like the Time Capsule? Have you noticed much of a hit when it comes to cruising the web and wirelessly backing up at the same time?

Wiki Answers

28910, 29900, 29901 and 29920 as well as 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS)

beware, the DS only takes WEP security as far as i know, im guessing you’re using WPA or WPA2, so that’s the problem right there, sacrifice security for NDS acces

@immatypeofwalrus
I love the Time Capsule. My MacBook and my brother’s MacBook work very, very well with it. I’ve heard that some people experience slower performance when they’re backing up, but I haven’t noticed anything. My last router was a linksys and it had so many firewalls up that I couldn’t do a lot of basic Mac stuff like video chat. Time Capsule knows what to block and what not to block automatically and I’m very glad for that. But it has been a little funky with the iPhone in one sense: we keep it in the office on one side of the house…not the center. So when I’m in the other end, it takes a long time to get anything off the internet because it switches between a very week Wi-Fi signal with the Time Capsule, and EDGE. I think it takes longer than just using EDGE because it can’t decide which to use. The MacBook does not have this problem. It says it has a perfect signal all the time, and acts like it. But the iPhone seems to have less range than my old 802.11g router…and Time Capsule is 802.11n…

I’m going to try out these suggestions. I’ll report on if they worked or not.

Oh. Interesting. If the Time Capsule is the only router the DS can find, it will say, “The access point’s security settings are not supported by the Nintendo DS. For help, call…. you know the rest…

yes, because…points to answer witch hasn’t been read obviously

There’s a witch around….run!!

alright. I tried everything I can think of to get it to work. The only way I found to get the ds to connect to the router is with security set to “none”...which obviously removes the password. I still feel a little upset about this, but I made the time capsule hidden, so only people who know the name of the router will be able to connect. And it’s name is just a bunch of random numbers, so hopefully that’s secure enough. DS works fine now.

@iwamoto
I tried that and many other things. It still doesnt work. For the fact that I can go to manual setup with it when it’s on WEP, I’d imagine there is a way to do it. Unfortunately I was unable to discover that way. I need many other things like ip address, subnet, gateway, etc. I thought I found all of this, but I still can’t get in. Problem solved though I guess.

What I did was I made the SSID not broadcast and with no security.

Xcess35
I just can’t figure it out. It seems that I’ve tried just about everything. I think it’s retarded because we had a Linksys router, but ever since my dad bought a MAC, he’s been McCrazy! _ So he bought a Time Capsule and it has the backup hard drive. I can’t connect with my DS Lite and every single EVERY SINGLE answer on the internet it plain out wrong. Either Nintendo fails or Apple fails.

Sorry about your problem.

Before you look at this and think “Good Lord that’s a complicated solution.” I want you to know that I went into as much detail about setting up the Time Capsule as possible because I’m not sure how familiar you are with Macs. It should be a very descriptive step-by-step tutorial on how to get your DS working on Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection again.

I know how to fix it though. On the Mac, click Finder (the left-most icon on the dock) choose Applications. Scroll down and open Utilities. Double click “AirPort Utility.app” to open the application. It should pull up your Time Capsule and it should be running fine as it is…but it won’t let your DS connect. There is ONE way that I’ve found (through MUCH trial and error) to let your DS connect to it and still maintain a pretty secure network. Click “Manual Setup” with the Time Capsule selected in AirPort Utility. Select the “Wireless” tab towards the top of the window. For “Wireless Security” select “None.” I know this sounds risky, but trust me. Once you have no wireless security on your network, click “Wireless Options…” Check the box for “Create a closed network.” What this does is make your network hidden. People can only connect to it if they know the name of your network and actually tell their device to look for a network named whatever your network is. To save these settings, click “Done” and then “Update.” Before you click “Update” though, you may want to come up with a pretty unique Wireless Network Name. Type in something you could easily remember but no one would ever guess. Mine is the first letter of every member of my household. Like, if my name were Jack, my wife’s name Daisy, son’s name Greg, and daughter’s name Jill, my network name might be jdgj. Easy to remember, since it’s my family in order according to age, and no one is going to run a search for a network named that. You’ll be completely safe. If people want to connect to someone else’s wireless, they’ll go for the unsecured ones that are visible just by searching, or try to guess the password to the visible ones that are secured.

Now, for your DS… I don’t have my DS with me right now, so I’ll do my best to explain how to do it. Go to your Wireless Settings via a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection enabled game and pick a connection (preferably Connection 1 as that’s the first one your system looks for). It may or may not run a search automatically. What you want to do is manually type in the ID of your network, which is whatever you set in AirPort Utility. You have to manually type it in since it’s a closed network. I believe after that all you have to do is tell it to try to connect to a network with that Wireless Network Name and it’ll set the rest up in a jiffy. If you have any problems, leave another post here and I’ll whip out my old DS Phat and get more detailed about that portion. Hope it helps!