Wi-fi for 360?

[Gunslinger08]

So I'm thinking about buying a 360, but I can't get on Live with ethernet because of the placement of my router. I really don't want to pay $100 for the MS wi-fi adapter. Are there any other options? I do have a PC near my television. Would I be able to run a crossover cable and enable connection sharing? Is there another option for wi-fi?

 

[Queasy]

1) You can buy the original Xbox wireless controller for $50 or less.
2) There are numerous ethernet based wireless game adapters for $50 or less.
3) Install DD-WRT on a compatible router to turn the router into a bridge.
4) There are instructions somewhere where someone used their laptop to share the internet connection with their 360. I'm sure the same can be done with the PC near your TV. EDIT: Here are some instructions.

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: Queasy
1) You can buy the original Xbox wireless controller for $50 or less.
2) There are numerous ethernet based wireless game adapters for $50 or less.
3) Install DD-WRT on a compatible router to turn the router into a bridge.
4) There are instructions somewhere where someone used their laptop to share the internet connection with their 360. I'm sure the same can be done with the PC near your TV. EDIT: Here are some instructions.

Just buy a Linksys WRT54G and install DD-WRT firmware on it. This will turn the router into a wireless bridge and allow you to connect 4 wired devices to the bridge will then talks to your router.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: Queasy
1) You can buy the original Xbox wireless controller for $50 or less.
2) There are numerous ethernet based wireless game adapters for $50 or less.
3) Install DD-WRT on a compatible router to turn the router into a bridge.
4) There are instructions somewhere where someone used their laptop to share the internet connection with their 360. I'm sure the same can be done with the PC near your TV. EDIT: Here are some instructions.

Just buy a Linksys WRT54G and install DD-WRT firmware on it. This will turn the router into a wireless bridge and allow you to connect 4 wired devices to the bridge will then talks to your router.

Needs to be WRT54G V4 or earlier or WRT54GL. The Buffalo router is really good but you can't find them cheap anymore.

 

[ShOcKwAvE827]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: Queasy
1) You can buy the original Xbox wireless controller for $50 or less.
2) There are numerous ethernet based wireless game adapters for $50 or less.
3) Install DD-WRT on a compatible router to turn the router into a bridge.
4) There are instructions somewhere where someone used their laptop to share the internet connection with their 360. I'm sure the same can be done with the PC near your TV. EDIT: Here are some instructions.

Just buy a Linksys WRT54G and install DD-WRT firmware on it. This will turn the router into a wireless bridge and allow you to connect 4 wired devices to the bridge will then talks to your router.

Needs to be WRT54G V4 or earlier or WRT54GL. The Buffalo router is really good but you can't find them cheap anymore.

Not really, I have a WRT54G v6 and it works fine with DDWRT micro.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Can anyone link me to a place to buy the official wireless adapter for $50 or less, or one of the cheap ethernet wireless adapters?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Can anyone link me to a place to buy the official wireless adapter for $50 or less, or one of the cheap ethernet wireless adapters?

Here is a D-Link one from Fry's for $39.99 after rebate.


Here is the original Xbox wireless adapter for $45.95 from Overstock.com.

 

[Tegeril]

FYI: Original Xbox wireless adapter doesn't support WPA.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Yes you can connect your computer to your 360 and use that to connect to the internet. I do it all the time just make sure you open the right ports.

 

[Supermercado]

I've tried using ICS on my laptop to get my 360 online and haven't been able to get it to work. Every time I try to enable ICS on my (wireless) laptop, it says that the IP address is in use. A little googling seems to say that it's trying to use 192.168.0.1 and that IP already exists on my network. So I changed my router from that to 192.168.0.100 and it's still giving me the error. As little as I play online, I'd like to get this to work and not have to pay anything more but I've had nothing but problems so far. Anyone know what might be going on?

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Can anyone link me to a place to buy the official wireless adapter for $50 or less, or one of the cheap ethernet wireless adapters?

Here is a D-Link one from Fry's for $39.99 after rebate.


Here is the original Xbox wireless adapter for $45.95 from Overstock.com.

Does the original Xbox wireless adapter require an external power source, or does it draw from USB?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Can anyone link me to a place to buy the official wireless adapter for $50 or less, or one of the cheap ethernet wireless adapters?

Here is a D-Link one from Fry's for $39.99 after rebate.


Here is the original Xbox wireless adapter for $45.95 from Overstock.com.

Does the original Xbox wireless adapter require an external power source, or does it draw from USB?

It hooks up via the ethernet port. Uses an external power adapter.

Any wireless adapter other than the official 360 adapter has to be hooked up via the ethernet port.

 

[erwos]

To be fair, the $100 adapter everyone hates on does support the 5ghz band, so it has some advantages over the alternative 2.4ghz solutions. Still overpriced, but maybe it'll come down sometime (haha!).

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: erwos
To be fair, the $100 adapter everyone hates on does support the 5ghz band, so it has some advantages over the alternative 2.4ghz solutions. Still overpriced, but maybe it'll come down sometime (haha!).

Yeah, that's why I defended the price when it first came out. You don't see too many A/G adapters and the ones you do see are fairly pricey. I would have expected a price drop on it by now though.

You can make the argument that MS should have come out with a G only or G/B adapter though.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: erwos
To be fair, the $100 adapter everyone hates on does support the 5ghz band, so it has some advantages over the alternative 2.4ghz solutions. Still overpriced, but maybe it'll come down sometime (haha!).

Yeah, that's why I defended the price when it first came out. You don't see too many A/G adapters and the ones you do see are fairly pricey. I would have expected a price drop on it by now though.

You can make the argument that MS should have come out with a G only or G/B adapter though.

There definitely should have been an official price drop by now, but I was able to find one new-in-box on eBay for $75 a few weeks before Christmas. I didn't mind paying the extra over a more technical solution (router with DD-WRT) because he's 200 miles away and wouldn't be able to troubleshoot a darn thing without me there. So I figured the extra $25-35 I paid for the official peripheral was worth him not having an excuse when I drum battle him in Rock Band.

 

[Supermercado]

Just an update on my setup since it may help the OP. I initially went the ICS route on my laptop and while it worked, it was unwieldy because my laptop isn't usually close enough to my TV for it to be useful, plus it required me to plug a wire in every time I wanted to play online, it was on a different subnet than the rest of my network, etc. It worked but it wasn't anywhere near flexible enough.

Fast forward to last weekend. I bought a WRT54GL for $50 after rebate and flashed it to DD-WRT and set up a client bridge. I played Forza 2 for several hours last night and if any of the guys that were playing see this and I'm incorrect in saying so, but I think it worked extremely well as far as lag and such goes. The only downside of this setup is that DD-WRT v23 doesn't support WPA2 for bridging so I had to roll back my existing network to WPA and give up on WPA2 for now.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'll probably end up buying the official adapter because I don't feel like having yet another thing to plug in to the wall.

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: Supermercado
The only downside of this setup is that the WRT54GL is ugly .

Fixed

 

[jdport]

Originally posted by: erwos
To be fair, the $100 adapter everyone hates on does support the 5ghz band, so it has some advantages over the alternative 2.4ghz solutions. Still overpriced, but maybe it'll come down sometime (haha!).

What exactly does the higher frequency band do for you? I'm just curious... As for the OP I was having the same debate myself and was thinking of buying the linksys gaming adapter... they are the same price as the microsoft xbox one, but on ebay they have the previous gen of it available and it's only about $40. I was considering trying one of those.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: jdport

Originally posted by: erwos
To be fair, the $100 adapter everyone hates on does support the 5ghz band, so it has some advantages over the alternative 2.4ghz solutions. Still overpriced, but maybe it'll come down sometime (haha!).

What exactly does the higher frequency band do for you? I'm just curious... As for the OP I was having the same debate myself and was thinking of buying the linksys gaming adapter... they are the same price as the microsoft xbox one, but on ebay they have the previous gen of it available and it's only about $40. I was considering trying one of those.

Less interference. 2.4GHZ Cordless phones and microwaves can interfere with an 802.11G signal. 802.11A (5GHZ) not so much.

The problem is, A devices aren't commonly used and are more expensive as a result.