Wii Support
 

Ok, I put this separate from the Nintendo thread, because.. well... just because, heh.

Ok, so on our Wii, we can't connect to the internet. It says 'Unable to connect to the Internet because another device has been set up using the same IP address'.

Can someone tell us what we have to do to remedy that? Thanks.

EDIT - I've tried Nintendo's site. The Support page where we put in our error code is nonexistent in English. It's down, or lost or whatever.

You either need a router or you need to shut down your computer to be able to use the Wii. That's my guess.

Well, we have a router... and I did try it with no computer in the room. I should have mentioned we have wireless...

Set a static IP for the Wii, one that's differnet from all the others on your network.

I had this problem also. Try manually entering all the information to setup your connection. That worked for me.

Ah, maybe I'll try that. How exactly should I do that?

Under your connection setup select setup manually and enter all the ips in. If you don't know the ip they're asking for, go into command and type ipconfig/all and that will have pretty much all the numbers you'll need. Tip though, whatever ip address you assign the Wii (it'll ask you for one when you do manual setup, just use the first 3 numbers in default gateway and then enter a number you know won't be used by any other computer in your house), make a DMZ host for that address. I couldn't download stuff onto my Wii until I did that.
Note: I'd give you more detailed information but I'm not at home right now so I don't really have access to give you specifics.