Sorry for not getting to this last week when I promised. I'm now running
1.3b15 with the same config as my 1.2 box. I can connect to Nintendo WFC,
and I can "Create a Room" without problems, but none of my friends are
online right now to actually try a race. Since my config upgraded with no
problem, I think I'll keep running 1.3b for a few days and try to catch
somebody tomorrow night. I was able to join a worldwide Vs. race and play it
successfully. (Well, I didn't win, but the network was successful.)

-tim

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Tim Kingman <tim dot kingman at gmail dot com> wrote:

> What games are you playing? I'm running 1.235 and have never set up any
> forwarding to my Wii, and I don't have any problems "hosting" in Mario Kart
> or Guitar Hero. I had assumed that the Wii connected to Nintendo's WFC
> servers and all the communication happened there, rather than the PC games
> style of having other players actually connecting to your PC. When I have
> had problems, I would get disconnected after a minute or two of a kart race,
> but we would see similar issues regardless of who first opened the room.
>
> I guess I don't really have any useful suggestions or information here. I'm
> sure there are other Wii owners on multiple firmware versions to chime in. I
> have some spare hardware here and may try installing 1.3 over the weekend to
> see if I get different results than 1.2.
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote:
>
>  I have a WII behind my m0n0wall at home.  I'm running 1.3B15.  I am unable
>> to host a room on the WII.  I can connect to a hosted room without issue.  I
>> found the ports used to host a game and port forwarded them to my WII.
>>  However, even though they are not being blocked (checked the logs), the
>> connection still does not happen.  So, I dropped a Linksys in place, bam,
>> hosting works fine.  So I did a bit more experimenting with the m0n0wall
>> (borrowed a friend's WII and connected them both).  If I do a 1:1 NAT
>> mapping to the WII from my outside IP and open the firewall ports,
>> everything works fine.  If I simply port forward the ports and open the
>> firewall, it will not work.  So my question here is, what is the major
>> difference between port forwarding and 1:1, and is there a way to get around
>> this problem?  I would love to leave the 1:1 in place, but unfortunately I
>> only have a single IP and other services that run behind it that get broken
>> when the 1:1 is in place.  Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>