# Using the WiFi shield

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**Category:** OpenMV Boards\
**Created:** [September 14, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/using-the-wifi-shield/126 "2016-09-14T20:40:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/using-the-wifi-shield/126/3 "2016-09-14T21:11:15Z")

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> [@deshipu](#):
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> I just tried again, and it worked this time. I wonder what happened.

I remember the default port in the example script was 8000, anyway, I made some major fixes to the WiFi driver and example script in v1.8 you should use that… BTW it works great with MJpegViewer on Android, the url should look like this: [http://ip](http://ip):port

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