7,500 Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots in the UK alone

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7,500 Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots in the UK alone

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Eurogamer wrote:Nintendo's announced that it will have over 7,500 Wi-Fi Connection hotspots active in the UK from 25th November when Mario Kart DS launches, and will be rolling out the service across the rest of Europe at the same time.

In the UK, the announcement owes a lot to deals with BT Openzone and The Cloud. Piggybacking their infrastructure, Wi-Fi Connection will allow gamers to play Wi-Fi-enabled multiplayer games like Tony Hawk's American Sk8land (Nov 18) and Mario Kart DS (Nov 25) from all manner of locations.

Those named include McDonald's restaurants, Coffee Republic, Hilton and Ramada Jarvis hotels, Road Chef and Welcome Break service stations, First Great Western railway stations, over 25 student unions and city centre BT Payphones and airports, football stadiums and the British Library and Canary Wharf.
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This is great news. Although I cant really picture myself playing mario kart in a phonebooth, but the other places are all good.

Im also interested at the use of football stadiums. Have chelsea signed up to this? It'd give their fans something to do while some of the most tediously boring football in the world is being played. :D
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Post by mattcky666 »

some good places to get a connection but i doubt many people would stand about near a phonebooth to use it

BoneyCork wrote: Have chelsea signed up to this? It'd give their fans something to do while some of the most tediously boring football in the world is being played. :D
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cool

i wonder though, how long will it take for an intrepid programmer to make a proggy so a laptop can mask itself as a DS and use those DS spots as a free wifi spot...
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Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:cool

i wonder though, how long will it take for an intrepid programmer to make a proggy so a laptop can mask itself as a DS and use those DS spots as a free wifi spot...
And do what? AFAIK all the wifi will offer is a free ds multiplayer service, not a full online service, so there wouldn't be much use for a laptop.
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Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:cool

i wonder though, how long will it take for an intrepid programmer to make a proggy so a laptop can mask itself as a DS and use those DS spots as a free wifi spot...
If they didn't want people to log onto the web with the spots why would they provide web service?
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well, those hotspots are for online play with the DS arent they?

im just saying, have they taken the trouble of sepperating the DS net entirely from the normal internet on those hotspots? i know that isnt neceserilly true, since you can connect to a normal wlan router too for online play
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dear me, have nintendo ever smelled the inside of a bt payphone in the city centre? that's a lawsuit waiting to happen
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Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:well, those hotspots are for online play with the DS arent they?

im just saying, have they taken the trouble of sepperating the DS net entirely from the normal internet on those hotspots? i know that isnt neceserilly true, since you can connect to a normal wlan router too for online play
Trouble? It's trivial to restrict a connection to one set of servers. Most of the mentioned places usually already have free wifi anyway.
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not just souLLy now wrote:dear me, have nintendo ever smelled the inside of a bt payphone in the city centre? that's a lawsuit waiting to happen
BoneyCork wrote:This is great news. Although I cant really picture myself playing mario kart in a phonebooth, but the other places are all good.
Hopefully the signal will reach far enough to some nearby benches, so you don't have to play everything completely vertical and smelling of wee ;).
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