# Pokemon trading sans wi-fi? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 4, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-trading-sans-wi-fi/580748 "2011-05-04T21:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-trading-sans-wi-fi/580748/1 "2011-05-04T21:00:20Z")
I want to trade pokemon with my girlfriend (she has soul silver and I have Pearl), so they’re both 4th gen and compatible with another. Yet super sucky Nintendo has decided that there is no way their precious DS can use WPA. :mad: I’m annoyed by that, and I really, REALLY don’t want to have to change my router settings and all my computers to WEP, both for security reasons and because it’s inconvenient! I can’t seem to find any way with Download and Play or other local connections to trade or battle. Any help? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-trading-sans-wi-fi/580748/2 "2011-05-05T00:55:51Z")
In Pearl, go to the Pokemon Center and use the middle lady upstairs to enter the Union Club; this will let you make a local connection with your girlfriend, as long as she’s physically in the same room as you are – no WiFi required. In Soul Silver, this is the middle lady in the Pokemon Center’s upstairs as well. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-trading-sans-wi-fi/580748/3 "2011-05-05T00:59:11Z")
That said – I share your disgust at the insistence on WEP. At my house, to accomodate Bricker Jr’s DS and WEP, I have a separate WAP running WEP. This WAP runs to a dual-homed Fedora host running as a router. Only traffic for Nintendo’s IP ranges are permitted through, along with a few other sites. I have his DS and his iPod Touch set up to use that WiFi, so I can manage his Internet access. His bedroom computer is also on that (wired) subnet. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-trading-sans-wi-fi/580748/4 "2011-05-05T15:06:58Z")
Woo hoo! Thanks Bricker!! 🙂