{"id":320,"date":"2014-01-07T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2016-12-17T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T19:07:14","slug":"connecting-a-nintendo-3ds-to-a-verizon-mifi-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/connecting-a-nintendo-3ds-to-a-verizon-mifi-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting a Nintendo 3DS to a Verizon MiFi Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was easy.<\/p>\n<p>Upon becoming the owner of a Verizon MiFi device, the first thing I tried to connect with was my 3DS. \u00a0Nothing worked except for the web browser.<!--more Thankfully, I refused to give up... --><\/p>\n<p>Finding the answer took a willingness to make mistakes. \u00a0No one online posted any working solutions &#8211; only educated guesses to other peoples&#8217; questions. \u00a0Then I found that Nintendo has a help page entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/consumer\/wfc\/en_na\/ds\/firewall.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Firewall\/Antivirus\/Antispyware\/Adware Compatibility Info<\/a>. \u00a0There is a lot of jargon in there, but everything I needed to do was on two lines of text.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TCP:<br \/>\nAllow traffic to all destinations on ports: 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920, 80, and 443<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s really all I had to do. \u00a0I logged into the router using the instructions that the router gave me, found the tab that said &#8220;Port Forwarding,&#8221; and allowed TCP data on on those five ports.<\/p>\n<p>The software that let me do this was branded all over with my cellphone provider&#8217;s name and logo. \u00a0They actually made it easy to allow that traffic on those ports. \u00a0Just because this CAN be done doesn&#8217;t mean it should. \u00a0I&#8217;m not even making any claims that this is a wise or safe thing to do. \u00a0On the other hand, other people suggested that you &#8220;just open TCP and UDP on all ports.&#8221; \u00a0That seems even <strong>more<\/strong> dangerous. \u00a0With that in mind, this is an answer based off my personal experience. \u00a0Allowing TCP traffic to to those five ports had my Nintendo 3DS online without a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was easy. Upon becoming the owner of a Verizon MiFi device, the first thing I tried to connect with was my 3DS. \u00a0Nothing worked except for the web browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[114,117,116,115,118],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-3ds","tag-firewall","tag-internet","tag-mifi","tag-tcp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8uTsK-5a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}