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It all started back in 2005. My parents, for some reason, decided for us to move in the more country part of the town that we had been living in. Unfortunately, the country part of town didn't have DSL around and my dad thought that getting Time Warner Cable's RoadRunner Internet was too expensive at the time. So, we had to go back to days of slow dial-up. I thought that the day we got SBC Yahoo! DSL in February 2003 would be the last of dial-up for us, but I was wrong.Â
When I heard about Mario Kart DS I was excited to learn that it featured the ability to race others online. However, when I found out that it seemed to only support "broadband Internet" I was saddened to find out that it may be quite a while before I would get a chance to play it online. Though, I was determined to find a way. When I finally got a copy of the game for Christmas I had tried searching online for a way of getting my game to connect through my dial-up connection. Surprisingly, nobody has posted anything about getting connected over dial-up. I even tried posting a message about it on the Nintendo NSider forms. Though, I didn't really get an actual answer.
A couple of months later after messing around with my old Windows ME computer and Internet Connection Sharing I finally got it to work. I was so excited that I was finally able to play Mario Kart DS online that I ended up playing online for the rest of the day. The next day, I tested the same method on my family's Windows XP computer to make sure I was able to use it on XP as well. I decided to share what I had discovered with the world. I quickly wrote up a simple tutorial, albeit with several typos and such (whoops!), and uploaded the tutorial to a hidden directory on my Pokemon fan site. I decided to post a link to the tutorial on Nintendo NSider. Little did I know how popular it would become. A link to my tutorial was posted on several gaming/tech blogs as well as other forums. Within a few weeks so many people had looked at my tutorial that all of the 2GB monthly bandwidth on my Pokemon fan site was used up, which caused my site to be down for the rest of the month. I was shocked that there were so many people who were in the same or similar predicament as I was.