User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-4421067-20111124210003/@comment-111.240.218.137-20111125040530

The online here refers to "local online play". It's been a tradition in MH for portable consoles to only have local linking functions. Xlink and Adhoc just simulates an environment for PSP to think it's executing local link via PS3. (The system a lot more complicated than that, so it's just a big picture of what's going on.) Since Xlink and Adhoc doesn't support 3DS and Capcom never really want a free Wi-fi featured portable (or home console) editioned MH to come out competing with it's own onlined MH Frontier in the Asian market (this could be seen in the Japanese version of MH3, you gotta pay monthly to go online), that's why portable editions never officially have Wi-fi linking functions in the first place.(And there's no way you can force Capcom to throw this feature in.)