Wii Sticky Notes

Stuff about the Wii

Johnny Lee Demo's his Wii Hacks at Ted

JL .... taking the world by storm. Take a look at all the cool stuff he's doing with his Wii-mote

Virtual Reality Check

Need more Johnny Lee? Here is an earlier video he did. Still very cool!!!

Chrome Wii Case

Is your Wii looking weak? Harness the power of Chrome and the sun reflecting off of your Wii could burn the logos off nearby Xbox and PS3 consoles! You might think a case like this will cost $2000, but it doesn't. This easy fit kit from XCMLIVE sells for $37.99, making it possible for all Wii owners to add a little bling to their favorite gaming console. The kit is also set to come in Crystal Blue and Black

Wii is IPv6 Ready

Did you know that right now you're surfing the internet on a wave called IPv4? Actually its not a wave, but rather a network layer on the world renowned switched-packet network, the internet. What you may not know is that in 2012 the IPv4 internet as we know it today, will go away forever. So what's wrong with todays internet. Well for one thing its slow. Did you know that most people, including yourself are surfing the net on a translated IP address? They call this network address translation or NAT. With IPv6, we'll all get our own unique IP address - no translation necessary. This will make it faster (since address translation takes processing time), and increase the amount of addresses available for use on the net. To put it in perspective, with todays IPv4 we can probably come up with millions of different addresses, but with IPv6 we can come up with millions of addresses for each single IPv4 address.

So what does all this really mean? Well, soon all the devices in the world will be able to communicate with their own unique address. Your HD radio, car, toaster, Wii and household robot. Yes, your Wii. Right now, the rumor is, if you own a Wii you own a semi capable IPv6 device. How capable is what I had to find out. Basically its designed to query DNS a little differently than your home computer. When you type in a web address in your browser, your computer queries DNS looking for an A record. The A record holds the IPv4 address and sends you on to the website. With the Wii, it not only queries DNS for an IPv4 address, but also an IPv6 address, an AAAA record. I've been using my Wii, an HP laptop running Windows XP and Wireshark to analyze my network. After a series of tests going to Wii News, Shopping and the Internet, I can see the Wii perform DNS queries. In every case it looks for the associated IPv4 address first and then the IPv6 address. I've read on other sites that it queries IPv6 (AAAA records) first, but I can't see that happening in my tests.

Results

Thanks to all of you that have emailed me about the IPv6 mystery. Your interest has peaked my interest.

So far here's what I think..... Nintendo has really put their minds into this Wii console. Basically they're making sure that this console will still be useful when IPv6 takes over.