[SOLVED] Wifi question

[stierler]

I was reading through some wifi wishes from a different site and came across this.

"I love using wifi on my Touch to stream music off my home server. I can be out on the deck or mowing the yard, and listening to music that lives on my server and not on my Touch. I can even listen to music I don't own as there are web sites with free streaming music to try, and videos available from Youtube. I can check my email without booting up a PC. I can check the weather before getting dressed for work in the morning, without booting up a PC or turning on a radio or TV. I can check my stocks on the Touch, again anywhere I am, regardless of how close to a working PC it is. You can see, I hope, why I might like more features on the Zune to take advantage of the wifi I have."


I was wondering if there is anyway to make an app for the zune that would make it possible to use the wifi to connect to your comp or server in such situations as sitting on your deck or porch? If so, I think that would be about the best thing since sliced bread!

Thanks for reading.

[blinkingangels]

that a great idea... it seems like it might be a little complicated, but hopefully someone can make that

[LedZepp]

Not possible right now, You can only connect to other zunes.

[Ace1tk]

its weird that the new people always want this but dont thread search before posting

[dan_1986]

I been patching up something on my zune that lets me see my home network.
So is that a start

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by dan_1986

I been patching up something on my zune that lets me see my home network.
So is that a start

I wont believe it until I see it

[birdman]

Originally Posted by dan_1986

I been patching up something on my zune that lets me see my home network.
So is that a start

I'm with Zepp on this one....I find this really hard to believe.

[dan_1986]

this is what i did I input a IR and then went into the zune HD and mod and few codes to make a web app and then when i opened it, it show my network...

[birdman]

have anything that can back this up though? pics? vid?

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by dan_1986

this is what i did I input a IR and then went into the zune HD and mod and few codes to make a web app and then when i opened it, it show my network...

Sure you did.

[dan_1986]

Laugh now, but when I explain how to do it, don't come running to me.

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by dan_1986

Laugh now, but when I explain how to do it, don't come running to me.

Noone is going to come running. Are you trying to say you hacked the zune's firmware by 'changing some code in the Zune's HD'? We're not idiots here. And what do you mean you 'Input an IR'? You Input an Infrared Reciever?

[argondey]

i dont know about modifying code in the hd or whatever but theoretically we could have access since the zune is already set up to connect with a home network to sync.

[Ace1tk]

yes but like everyone say you would have to hack the firmware, trying that could make your Zune a brick. There's no way to access wifi through XNA and the Zune only uses wifi on the 802.11g for wireless sync. The only way to use wireless is for Zune to Zune ad hoc connection or wireless sync to PC on your wireless network, i suggest you dont attempt it or you'll be wasting alot of time. What's the sense in wanting the net on your Zune to begin w/ just get a sidekick or PPC. Zune doesn't make a good wireless internet device for viewing webpages and all web related content.
and i would like to state for the record

Originally Posted by argondey

i dont know about modifying code in the hd or whatever but theoretically we could have access since the zune is already set up to connect with a home network to sync.

Originally Posted by Ace1tk

its weird that the new people always want this but dont thread search before posting

please thread search before posting you'll see we've already discussed and solved this issue. wifi activity for viewing the web is just not capable at the moment and if it were there'd be no actual point in it

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by Ace1tk

yes but like everyone say you would have to hack the firmware, trying that could make your Zune a brick. There's no way to access wifi through XNA and the Zune only uses wifi on the 802.11g for wireless sync. The only way to use wireless is for Zune to Zune ad hoc connection or wireless sync to PC on your wireless network, i suggest you dont attempt it or you'll be wasting alot of time. What's the sense in wanting the net on your Zune to begin w/ just get a sidekick or PPC. Zune doesn't make a good wireless internet device for viewing webpages and all web related content.
and i would like to state for the record
please thread search before posting you'll see we've already discussed and solved this issue. wifi activity for viewing the web is just not capable at the moment and if it were there'd be no actual point in it

That is exactly my point, and is probably one of the biggest reasons why it will probably never be done. There is no point. The zune was never intended to be used for viewing the internet, and frankly, doing so on the Zune would suck. The people who want such a feature are a minority, and none of them seem to be doing anything to actually try and achieve that (Provided, there even is. You'd have to hack the firmware, simple as that, and I seriously doubt this other guy did it becuase he sounds like he has no idea what he's talking about) and there arn't enough people who want such a thing to get real developers interested in speding the countless hours it'd require trying to hack the zune.

Browsing the Internet would be stupid, but what I would find very useful is being able to Stream Internet Radio stations via URL to your zune over the WiFi. That'd be awesome.

[TroyH]

Originally Posted by Ace1tk

What's the sense in wanting the net on your Zune to begin w/ just get a sidekick or PPC. Zune doesn't make a good wireless internet device for viewing webpages and all web related content.

I can think of a few uses for Wi-Fi on the Zune besides being able to say, "Im surfen teh internetz on my z00n!!!1!!! im 1337!!11!!!!"

1) Internet-enabled multi-player games. With a central server that other Zune users connect to, it would be kind of neat. It would also get Zune users able to actually find each other.
2) Sending songs to your friends through the Internet.
3) Using your Zune as a pocket wi-fi scanner.
4) Syncing music from your home PC while at work.
5) As others have said, streaming Internet radio stations.
6) Downloading songs from the Zune Marketplace directly to your Zune.
7) Viewing Internet videos.

There are probably plenty of other applications that could be made possible with Internet access.

Now, I'm not saying it's possible, just that it wouldn't be a useless feature.

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by TroyH

I can think of a few uses for Wi-Fi on the Zune besides being able to say, "Im surfen teh internetz on my z00n!!!1!!! im 1337!!11!!!!"

1) Internet-enabled multi-player games. With a central server that other Zune users connect to, it would be kind of neat. It would also get Zune users able to actually find each other.
2) Sending songs to your friends through the Internet.
3) Using your Zune as a pocket wi-fi scanner.
4) Syncing music from your home PC while at work.
5) As others have said, streaming Internet radio stations.
6) Downloading songs from the Zune Marketplace directly to your Zune.
7) Viewing Internet videos.

There are probably plenty of other applications that could be made possible with Internet access.

Now, I'm not saying it's possible, just that it wouldn't be a useless feature.

Its not possible, at all.
There is no internet connection made by the zune, It just isnt possible, deal with it.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by LedZepp

Its not possible, at all.
There is no internet connection made by the zune, It just isnt possible, deal with it.

Did...he say that? No. He hypothesized as to good uses of Wi-Fi on a Zune, whether it can be done through hacking or not. These are merely things that such a device would be capable of if the software was designed to accomodate such features, as the actual hardware would not hinder the proper use of such features, again, providing that the firmware could be hacked-unlikely-or that Microsoft actually tried to do so, which is only slightly more likely. ^_^;

[rubenbest]

Originally Posted by Spike!

That is exactly my point, and is probably one of the biggest reasons why it will probably never be done. There is no point. The zune was never intended to be used for viewing the internet, and frankly, doing so on the Zune would suck. The people who want such a feature are a minority, and none of them seem to be doing anything to actually try and achieve that (Provided, there even is. You'd have to hack the firmware, simple as that, and I seriously doubt this other guy did it becuase he sounds like he has no idea what he's talking about) and there arn't enough people who want such a thing to get real developers interested in speding the countless hours it'd require trying to hack the zune.

Browsing the Internet would be stupid, but what I would find very useful is being able to Stream Internet Radio stations via URL to your zune over the WiFi. That'd be awesome.

i think internet for zune would not be stupid it will be very usefull because some people forget there cell phones and sidekicks psp and other stuff that brings internet. if u were to have a zune that has internet it would beat the ipod ans also would help many people with portible lives.