Cheapest way to make XBOX wireless?

[edro]

The XBOX brand one is like $80... Can you use any wireless bridge?

What is the cheapest wireless bridge? THey are like $100 at most stores I see...

 

[lobadobadingdong]

linky

 

[edro]

Is a bridge the same thing as an access point?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

no, these technically just take an ethernet port and change the protocol to use 802.11 via the bridge, you will need to have an Access Point(AP) and router (or an AP router) somewhere in the house for this to get a dhcp address from for your xbox to connect to the internet.

edit and this really belongs in the networking threads.

 

[edro]

Yeah, I have a wireless router...

 

[bigalt]

why do you want to? the ping playing games will be worse, and any files you'd want to transfer back and forth will be WAY slower than a wired connection.

I'd say your better off routing your ethernet cables through your vents and under carpets and whatnot, but anyway, good luck!

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: bigalt
why do you want to? the ping playing games will be worse, and any files you'd want to transfer back and forth will be WAY slower than a wired connection.

I'd say your better off routing your ethernet cables through your vents and under carpets and whatnot, but anyway, good luck!

Unless you have a T3 running into your house, then you're wrong.

Virtually any LAN > WAN.

 

[bigalt]

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: bigalt
why do you want to? the ping playing games will be worse, and any files you'd want to transfer back and forth will be WAY slower than a wired connection.

I'd say your better off routing your ethernet cables through your vents and under carpets and whatnot, but anyway, good luck!

Unless you have a T3 running into your house, then you're wrong.

Virtually any LAN > WAN.

well i didn't look at them side by side, but i'm pretty sure that playing on xbconnect on my friend's wireless was choppier than playing on my wired across the hall. i suppose it could have been from different servers, but we figured it was because it took extra time for the router to get the info to the xbox and back.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: bigalt

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: bigalt
why do you want to? the ping playing games will be worse, and any files you'd want to transfer back and forth will be WAY slower than a wired connection.

I'd say your better off routing your ethernet cables through your vents and under carpets and whatnot, but anyway, good luck!

Unless you have a T3 running into your house, then you're wrong.

Virtually any LAN > WAN.

well i didn't look at them side by side, but i'm pretty sure that playing on xbconnect on my friend's wireless was choppier than playing on my wired across the hall. i suppose it could have been from different servers, but we figured it was because it took extra time for the router to get the info to the xbox and back.

The ping from the WiFi client to the access point is just a couple milliseconds.

The ping from the router to the ISP gateway is usually ~ 30 ms or more.

And even an older 802.11b router pushes several times the throughput of cable/DSL. The choppiness you experienced is not due to a technical limitation of WiFi.

 

[faZZter]

I play on XBOX live with a wireless connection (a linksys WET11 and D-Link router) and it works just fine. I don't experience any more lag than I would on the wired connection. At least it isn't enough to worry about.

 

[edro]

It would mainly be for FTPing large files to my XBOX from a PC on the same network.

 

[edro]

I got a DLink DWL-800AP+

It apparently has some problems connecting with Linksys stuff, but there is a firmware upgrade for it... I didn't read reviews until after I bid on it

Oh well, hopefully I can get it to work.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: edro13
It would mainly be for FTPing large files to my XBOX from a PC on the same network.

Then you'd want to go Wired, not Wireless. Unless you get uber-highspeed stuff (e.g. 108g) your transfer rate is going to be pretty slow by comparison. Standard ethernet is the cheapest thing for the speed you'll get.

 

[RagingBITCH]

I hope you didn't pay more than $59 for it, b/c that's how much the Wireless G adapter from MS is now at most places.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I use a DWL-810+, but since the MS-branded one is around the same price nowadays, and I use an MS router, I would just buy one of those if I had it to do over again.