This document provides information on connecting Nintendo DS to public wireless hotspots.

Nintendo has partnered with Wayport for providing hotspot access in USA and with Fatport for providing wifi hotspot access in Canada.

If you are at one of those partner hotspots (i.e. at a Wayport or a Fatport location), playing online by connecting your Nintendo DS using wireless is rather easy. You would essentially be instructing your Nintendo DS to scan for available wireless (partner) hotspot access points, and let it connect to the one it identifies as being one of the partner (at McDonald's, for example) hotspot locations.

Even if you are at a non-partner hotspot location (such as a wifi hotspot at an airport, hotel resort, corner coffee shop, book store, public library, or if you are connecting through a Metro Wireless LAN or a MAN, etc.), getting your Nintendo DS connected through a Wireless Hotspot is usually not that difficult -unless the hotspot operator has explicitly configured the Router/AP to block various ports and destinations needed for getting your gaming traffic through.