Staceylt40

Yeah, that's just it. He DOES prefer to be outside and plays every sport in the world. LOL Soccer, baseball (his fave, he is the best pitcher in the league), football, basketball (least fave) and golf. He does very well at all. But when it gets dark, now earlier, he is playing video games. I am slightly older than you. LOL (43) and we were without anything like that when I was kid. Like I said, I was about 12 when Atari came out and man o man, did I think I was cool. I was the first kid on the block to have one. LOL Hell, I remember when we got the VCR and a Microwave. LOL We didn't have tv's in our rooms or phones. Yeah, he thinks its just ridiculous when I tell him things like that. Or its funny when he asked me "what is a VCR?" UGH! ) I remember as an adult, my boyfriend and I playing my niece's Donkey Kong on nintendo and you're right when GAME OVER was there, it was really GAME OVER. lol But it was fun! I have tried to play my son's Wii with him and I just get dizzy. I will stick to the games on facebook. LOL Again, thanks for your help. He didn't seem very upset when I told him I tried but no luck. LOL its not like he doesn't have a thousand other games he can play. I think he already knew before I did that he couldn't lol. Oh well.

I was actually afraid of that. But was secretly hoping for a magic fix to the wii or something. My son (12 years old) will just have to understand....... Its the country life.... get outside and play with the chickens and goats. HA! Not really, but there are lots of woods to play in. He freaks out when I remind him that when I was his age there were no video games unless you went to the bowling alley game room and played pac-man. lol We didn't have cell phones or computers. We actually had to PLAY outside to see our friends. LOL Then when Atari hit.... oh man!! That was the IN thing. I even bought a wii version of the old Atari games so he could get an idea. He actually likes playing them. Frogger being his fave. LOL Anyway... Thanks for your help.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Stacey>ping google.com Pinging google.com [74.125.224.195] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 74.125.224.195: bytes=32 time=680ms TTL=51 Reply from 74.125.224.195: bytes=32 time=607ms TTL=51 Reply from 74.125.224.195: bytes=32 time=604ms TTL=51 Reply from 74.125.224.195: bytes=32 time=605ms TTL=51 Ping statistics for 74.125.224.195: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 604ms, Maximum = 680ms, Average = 624ms C:\Users\Stacey>ping testmy.net Pinging testmy.net [174.120.187.140] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 174.120.187.140: bytes=32 time=642ms TTL=51 Reply from 174.120.187.140: bytes=32 time=642ms TTL=51 Reply from 174.120.187.140: bytes=32 time=640ms TTL=51 Reply from 174.120.187.140: bytes=32 time=638ms TTL=51 Ping statistics for 174.120.187.140: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 638ms, Maximum = 642ms, Average = 640ms C:\Users\Stacey>

Thanks. I know how to browse the internet on it. I can go anywhere, in this case I went to facebook and even posted. But it will not allow him to connect when he tries to play Call of Duty or any of his other games that have other player interaction via the internet. It will connect to the wifi, but will never connect to other users or a room with other users. Just says "Getting game quality" and "searching for room". Back and forth between the 2.

We have had Excede since May and for the most part, have been happy with it. I was a long time subscriber of Hughesnet even when they were direcway. It was one problem after another. We moved into town and was able to get cable. We moved back to the country and I as so dreading the whole satellite internet thing. Cable had me spoiled for sure. But, as I said, we have been happy so far. My question is, my son was able to connect his Wii to the cable to play his games and now I cannot get it to connect no matter how or what I do. Am I missing something? Why is he not able to connect? He can connect to the wireless here at the house but when he tries to connect to the internet to play, it will never connect. Any ideas?