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Finally I can connect my Wii to the net. After sending off to Nintendo to get a Wii Lan adapter it came taking less than a week which in my eyes is very good not to much time sitting around waiting for it to arrive.

First Impressions:
Well to start it did not come in any real kind of packaging just in a small clear plastic bag, but that does not really matter as it would of only ended up in the rubbish. The important thing is that I can now connect my Wii to the internet. The quaility of the adapter is top notch, and is very solid and sturdy. You simply plug it into the rear of the console in one of the two USB ports.

Appearance:
I was actually rather surprised with the lan adapter to be honest, because it was not white like the rest of the Wii, but then after thinking about it, it makes sense as to why its grey, and that it was probably done like that because it is the same grey colour of the rest of the cables, and fits into the colour scheme nicely.

Wii Lan Adapter.

Setting it up:
Whats the first thing you should do when you get a new piece of hardware? Read the instructions, but did I do that? Nope (Mistake No 1) I just jumped straight into it powered up my Wii and plugged it in (Mistake No 2). Went to the Wii settings and setup the connnection for the wired settings. Then I tried to connect to the internet with my Wii, and guess what it failed and did not connect. Why was this? Mainly because of mistake no 1 not reading the manual but mistake no 2 should of been rather obvious, you see you have to plug in the Wii Lan Adapter whilst the Wii is turned off and also plug the lan end into your lan network whilst it is off, otherwise it will not connect to the internet full stop and you will be presented with a variety of errors all of which could be avoided by following the instructions.

Wii Lan Adapter Connected to Wii.

Overall:
The Wii lan adapter does what it is intended to do, and that is connect the Wii to the internet via a wired network and it does this very well.

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