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Xbox 360 on a wireless bridge?

Kabob

Kabob

Lifer
I'm new to networking, maybe some of you can answer a few questions.

First, I live in an apartment that's pretty long. We have Bell South Fast Access DSL (wireless) and I want to hook my soon to arrive Xbox 360 to it. I could get the network adapter but it's kinda pricey ($100). The location of our wireless router is pretty much on the exact opposite side of where the 360 would go though (probably 40 feet away through 3 walls). I was told that instead of buying the adapter I could buy one of these and hook it into the wireless router and the other side into my 360.

Questions:

1) Exactly how does the wireless bridge work? Does this work exactly as if it were just one long cable? Does anyone know if the 360 will recognize it as something other than just one long cable?
2) Will this work for us, especially with the DSL connection?
3) Anything I should be weary of?

Our contract with Bell South ends this month so if we want to we could switch to wired Cable modem (which is alot slower for us, a move from 6MB/768KB to 1MB/386KB). Any thoughts?
 
Wireless Bridge in this sense (aka Consumer Wireless Bridge) is a Wireless Client card that can connect to a Wireless Router/Access Point and work without software driver on its side, thus can be used for devices that do not have regular computer interface that lend it to install software drivers.

Wireless Bridge in general has nothing to do with Game Box Cards. It is a configuration Mode prevalent in Access Points. When this mode is configured with two Access Points, the two devices can only talk one to the other without regular wireless devices (like Wireless computes) being able connect to them and interfere with the communication. It is manly use when two Independent Networks (or two segment of the same network need to be connected wirelessly between switch to switch ports.

The regular Wireless Mode that allows a computer/Laptop to connect to a Wireless Router/Access Point is called Infrastructure.
 
bump for more info, plz

Are there any other options to hooking the 360 up to the internet other than buying the wireless adapter (which is 'spansive)
 
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