Netflix with Wii for this dummy help.

[hereyago]

Ok, I am trying to be technological savvy, but: I am interested in doing Netflix Wii streaming thing.


I have a Wii

I have a tv.

I have the internet, but only in my bedroom and there is no tv in here.

So how does it work? Do I take the Wii hook it up to internet, get movies "saved" on the wii then take the Wii into living room and hook it up to tv?

HELP! TIA

 

[SookieStackhouse]

The Wii is a wireless connection.

There wouldn't be any downloading onto the Wii...besides the Netflix App or whatever it is called.

Hook up your Wii to your TV and it should work, IF you have a wireless internet signal in your house in the living room.

If you can't get the internet in your living room where the tv is, it will probably be a no go.

 

[hereyago]

The Wii is a wireless connection.

There wouldn't be any downloading onto the Wii...besides the Netflix App or whatever it is called.

Hook up your Wii to your TV and it should work, IF you have a wireless internet signal in your house in the living room.

If you can't get the internet in your living room where the tv is, it will probably be a no go.

Oh. I am out of luck I guess, because my internet is a wire cable ethernet. Dang. But thanks for replying so quickly.

 

[ashley0139]

You can have a hardline internet connection to the Wii, but you'd have to have that hookup in the living room where the tv is.

 

[golfgal]

Do you have a wireless router though? You can still have wireless capability but have it on a wired connection. If you don't have a wireless router, call your internet company and ask to change out the router you have for a wireless capable one, then you can run Netflix through the Wii. You can still just run it through the Wii connected to your tv through a cable, you just have to have a certain Netflix CD that they mail you--assuming you are talking about instant streaming from Netflix. Otherwise they just mail you a CD of the moving and you have to play that on a DVD player (which Wii is not).

You can also connect your computer to the TV and instant stream movies that way.