The USB connector apparently won't work with my computer; something about firewall settings. The WFC website has a tester program you can download to see if the adaptor is compatible.
I had the worst experience ever in the Battle Tower Multi Battle room. I had wanted to try the feature out so I paired up with a guy who had a Cloyster and a Registeel. So in one of the battles both my guys got KO'd, and so did the Cloyster, leaving only Registeel against a Mantyke who had just used aqua ring.
So apparently aqua ring doesn't ever wear off, which is a shame since if it did I could have just waited for it to hail and eventually KO it, but I had to rely on the Registeel's dumb AI. It's basic routine was to use curse to pump up its attack, and then when its health got low use rest, never to attack. And the Mantyke would always use confuse ray, so the one or two times that it wanted to attack it just hurt itself. None of the Mantyke's attacks did any real damage, but I was attacked for so long that by the time confusion wore off and it finally wanted to attack, it fell asleep since it was at less than half HP.
Total battle time: 27 minutes.
I was really pissed, needless to say.