SOLVED: Wii to Sylverant connection issues

[Craigp0429]

Hi everybody, I am new here so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong by posting here...

I recently joined this server with my Wii after soft modding it with Homebrew and Devolution. Now everything usually works fine until I randomly drop connection. These are the settings used to connect to the server currently saved and in use:

Country: United Kingdom
Dial Method: Tone
Outside: null/empty/blank/nada
Timeout: 99
User/pass: DEVO/gc
Phone Number: 2

I can successfully connect to the server, "Welcome to the world of PSO" and so on... Get to the lobby and create teams. Now after a while of hunting and questing, I randomly lag and or disconnect. Is there anything I could be doing wrong? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Many thanks, and I hope to hear from anyone who can help soon.

UPDATE:
Currently moving my save files to my PC to play on Dolphin, though I really would like to play on my Wii/TV like it should...

SOLVED
Using a Wii LAN adaptor solved this issue, instead of using the Wii's WiFi.

[Aleron Ives]

Devolution requires you to use tueidj's PC as a proxy, and it's possible that being in the UK simply introduces too much latency for PSO to stay connected, I suppose. A possible solution might be to run the modem software on your own PC instead of connecting to his, but I have no idea how you'd go about doing that.

[Craigp0429]

Thank you for your reply,

I have pretty good connection usually, my brother had his GC round with a BBA and connected fine with no disconnects. I'm not sure whether it is because of it being homebrew and not wiiflow (from what I read from somewhere else) but even so, I don't think it's to do with that either.

I will try using the proxy as you suggested, in the hopes that this will fix the problem. I'm sure there would be a guide of sorts out there.

Any more suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

I will let you know how I get on.

Also, dolphin is proving to be difficult as it requires some stupid network bridge with an openvpn kit of sorts. Tried that and stuck on the "connecting to dns" screen until it gives up. I'll be sticking with the wii, atleast I have some sort of connection already.

[Craigp0429]

Upon further research, it turns out I don't need to enter any proxy information at all:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/devolution-p ... st-4352842

I have done everything quoted in this post and therefore stuck in a loop :/

According to the post, all traffic is already directed to his VPN, and that no proxy is required. This is of course an old post back in 2012. So I'm wondering if there's something else I need to do.

[Aleron Ives]

That was my point. You're connecting from the UK to his PC, and then from his PC to the server. If you ran the same software that he has on his PC on your own PC, then you could connect directly to the server without the extra hop, which would improve your latency. As for Dolphin, you need to install the OpenVPN TAP adapter and bridge it with your Ethernet connection in order to go online with Windows. There's a slightly different configuration for Linux, but OSX can't go online at all.

[Craigp0429]

So, is said software available so that I could run it on my PC? Where could I find it if it is?

Thanks so far

Am I right in saying that I could bypass his VPN by entering the IP and Port in the Phone Number field as integer? If thats the case, what exactly is the port that sylverant uses and how would I convert the IP and Port to integer?

[Aleron Ives]

You need to run a PPP emulator on your machine, such as Slirp AFAIK, which requires you to use Linux. I'm not sure that running your own is possible under Windows without Cygwin.

[tueidj]

You realize my VPS is less than a 30ms hop away from Sylverant? It's practically right next to it compared to the distance between UK<->US.

The dropouts are most likely caused by your wii's wifi dropping out and/or lagging.

[Craigp0429]

Ok, maybe if I switch to using wired LAN, it should fix the problem?

[tueidj]

It certainly can't hurt.

[Craigp0429]

Ok after ordering a Wii compatible LAN adaptor, I've tried and tested and it works perfectly. No disconnections whatsoever, maybe the odd but rare lag. But overall, a success!

Thank you everyone for your help!

Just a side thing though: why does the WiFi drop so much??

[Aleron Ives]

Wi-Fi is a lousy technology? Ethernet for life!

[BlueCrab]

I find the Wii's wifi to be pretty terrible at times. Especially when you have multiple APs in the area using the same channel that you're using...

[tueidj]

Devolution is actually the only wii homebrew app smart enough to prevent usage of bluetooth channels that overlap the current wifi channel. Seems it only makes the bluetooth more stable rather than the wifi though...