I guess I'll have to rent another online game or something to test it out.

I *think* it's just strikers because I can user internet channel on YouTube etc just fine, as well as shop, news, and voting channels.

But none of my mates have this problem :(

I don't think player base should affect it as each player is directly connecting to the other (I would imagine) I don't nintendo have programmed it so that all games are hosted on a Ninty Server.

By the way, the channel trick (1 or 12) what does that actually do? Is it just those because they are usually free channels or are they the Wiis "favourites"? I have my router on channel 2 atm but I'm pretty sure I've tried it on 1 before to no avail.

get a router or modem and if u do got then fix some settings.WiiLoveMatt

That was so helpful =/

Dark_Link my router is already right next to my Wii (well about a meter away) and I don't really want to shell out on a new router :( I'll guess I'll wait for a different online game to come out or borrow a mates and see if that lags.

So ever since I bought Mario Strikers it has lagged a lot online (Connection between 2-3 stars most of the time). To give a rough idea of how laggy it is the 3 second timer at the start takes about 4-5 seconds to finish. Every second or so there is a lag spike of equal length.

This makes the game totally unplayable online. I have tried several matches but all of them lagged, I have played friends who live nearby and even they lag!

However, when I go to a speed test website and run it in the internet browser of my Wii, I find my ping is 59ms ,my upload is 30KBps, and my download is 100KBps (I'm on 2Mb broadband but that doesn't really matter, the big point is the latency).

Now I ran that test ON MY WII, not my PC. So why on earth is strikers so laggy? My Wii is connected Wirelessly to a router but I've manually given it an IP address etc etc.

If anyone can help I'd be happy to listen :) I want to play strikers online really badly!