Next Question
The official WiFi adapter for the 360 is a cheaply built piece of crap. Mine basically auto destructed after a few months. For that kind of money you can get a wireless ethernet bridge, which is great because it will work with anything, not just an Xbox 360.
I got two 360s, one is in my son's room, at the other end of the house from where my home office (and all of my network gear is), and wireless reception to his 360, AppleTV and iMac always sucked.
The solution? For less than half of the cost of ONE wireless adapter I ran a cat 6 wire from my home office to his room, and put a gigabit ethernet switch ($30 or so at Amazon, and shipping was free) in his room, connected to my gigabit ethernet switch in my office. His iMac has gigabit ethernet, the appleTV and the Xbox 360 have 100MB ethernet. No more connectivity grief.
Permalink | Report
If you want to go the cheap way, you can buy a b/g (even draft-n) wireless router that can receive your wireless signal. The only thing is, you'll have to configure the router with a PC and you'll have to have extra space for it and its power adapter.
Source(s):
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/10/02/how-to-cheap-wireless-for-your-xbox-...
Permalink | Report
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F5D7330-802-11g-Wireless-Ethernet/dp/B00020H1TG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1229720412&sr=8-1
Permalink | Report
Answered Question
.jpg)
Best Answer Chosen by Asker
| December 20, 2008 04:37 PM |
I got two 360s, one is in my son's room, at the other end of the house from where my home office (and all of my network gear is), and wireless reception to his 360, AppleTV and iMac always sucked.
The solution? For less than half of the cost of ONE wireless adapter I ran a cat 6 wire from my home office to his room, and put a gigabit ethernet switch ($30 or so at Amazon, and shipping was free) in his room, connected to my gigabit ethernet switch in my office. His iMac has gigabit ethernet, the appleTV and the Xbox 360 have 100MB ethernet. No more connectivity grief.
| Asker's Rating: |
Permalink | Report
Reply 
Other Answers (2)
December 19, 2008 08:44 PM
The $99 wireless adapter from Microsoft is by far the most convenient and easiest to set up. You can configure all of the wireless settings inside the dashboard. If you want to go the cheap way, you can buy a b/g (even draft-n) wireless router that can receive your wireless signal. The only thing is, you'll have to configure the router with a PC and you'll have to have extra space for it and its power adapter.
Source(s):
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/10/02/how-to-cheap-wireless-for-your-xbox-...
Permalink | Report
Reply
December 19, 2008 09:01 PM
For my 360, I picked up a "Belkin Wireless G Gaming Adapter 802.11g". At the time I paid $19.99 on Buy.com on sale. I see the same adapter on Amazon for $39.99 currently. I have been using it for about a month with no issues. Setup was straightforward. http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F5D7330-802-11g-Wireless-Ethernet/dp/B00020H1TG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1229720412&sr=8-1
Permalink | Report
Reply
Answer this Question
Related Questions
Ask a Question
Buy Mahalo Dollars with Credit Card or PayPal
Top Members
Most Popular Tags
Categories
- Anonymous
-
Arts & Design
-
Beauty & Style
-
Books & Authors
-
Business
-
Cars & Transportation
-
Consumer Electronics
- Coupons Deals
-
Education
-
Entertainment
-
Environment
-
Fitness
-
Food & Drink
- From Email
- From Iphone
- From Twitter
-
Health
-
History
-
Hobbies
-
Home & Garden
-
How Tos
-
Humor
-
Jobs
-
Legal
-
Local
-
Love & Relationships
-
Mahalo Answers Community
-
Money
-
Music
-
News
-
NSFW
-
Parenting
-
Pets
-
Science & Mathematics
-
Services
-
Shopping
-
Social Science
-
Society & Culture
-
Sports
-
Technology & Internet
-
Travel
-
Video Games
Welcome New Members
- sevenisyellow, November 29, 2009 02:34 AM
- elishafelix, November 29, 2009 02:29 AM
- 5bears, November 29, 2009 02:27 AM
- gypsygirl, November 29, 2009 02:25 AM
- michaelmann, November 29, 2009 02:21 AM
Mahalo Dollars are the currency of Mahalo Answers.
Each Mahalo Dollar costs $1.
Once you earn more than 40 Mahalo Dollars, you can request to be paid via PayPal. Each Mahalo Dollar is currently worth $0.75 when paid out via PayPal. Learn More
of course that maybe just a one time thing at that particular location,
but don't pay the full $99