Ah! Thanks for the info. I literally setup my Wii right after launch, setup my router so my Wii could connect to it, and haven't touched it's settings aside from changing the password every once in a while since.

Yeah just a few quick joke cartoons. Needs more ability to edit slashdot posts :(

And then I post the wrong imgur http://i.imgur.com/cOCpx.png

http://i.imgur.com/oHfoP.jpg - only about half the networks in range of me. I love the 2nd and 3rd one... the 2nd of which I've been tempted to hack on multiple occasions just to get a good laugh but then :tinfoil:

As mentioned below, it's the DS that's holding me back. I assumed the Wii was too, but I haven't bothered messing with it's network configuration in a long time.

Yeah it's the DS, my bad. Not going to bother with a USB adapter because it's not that big of a deal to me. WEP is "good enough" since there are 4-5 truly unsecured network connections in my apartment complex for people to screw with. Low hanging fruit and all. Why bother cracking WEP when you can just connect to a network named "Linksys" and have fun. Odds are the latter will have more things to play with once inside.

You're right it's the DS that kept me back. I guess I just assumed the Wii was the same. Either way it's Nintendo's fault.

Stuck on WEP thanks to Nintendo's inability to support WPA or WPA2 in their hardware. Hopefully the Wii2 and 3DS fix this, when I eventually get one.

It's definitely DPI. The DNS aspects are simple DNS redirection. The 404 aspect takes any default 404 error page from IIS or Apache, and redirects it to mediacom. It even does this on my own domains and my own hosting services outside of Mediac

Assuming you're on Mediacom try going to http://freenode.net/asdfasdfasdfasdf You will not get freenode's default 404 error. You will get redirected to Mediacom even if you're opted-out. This is exactly how it works for me. I've been complaining to them for months.

This doesn't work. I'm on Mediacom and use Google DNS. None the less if I type in http://validsite.com/invalidurlgoeshere/ rather than being served a proper 404 I get forwarded to Mediacom's private search engine. They're using deep packet inspection to hijack any default apache or iis 404 response from a website and redirect it to themselves. Level3 DNS, Google DNS, and Open DNS all work to fix the issue of my failed DNS queries being hijacked, but it doesn't fix 404s.