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Getting started LIVE wireless
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| ryan warner via XboxJunkies.com 2005-01-18, 12:45 am |
| I just purchased a DLink DI624 wireless router. I have cable internet and would like to know what else I need to get up and running on XBOX LIVE.
Thanks for the help.
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| ryan warner via XboxJunkies.com 2005-01-18, 12:45 am |
| Oh I have also subscribed to XBOX LIVE.
Thanks Again.
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| Jeff S. 2005-01-20, 5:46 pm |
| If the Xbox is not near the router, you need a wireless game adapter.
If it is near the router or a computer with internet capability, you
can hook up the Xbox via an ethernet cable.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/Connect/default.htm
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| Tye Blackburn 2005-01-26, 3:39 am |
| Actually....you don't need the wireless game adapter to setup a wireless
connection to the wireless router. For about the same price as a Wireless-G
Game Adapter you can purchase a wireless access point (WAP) and network
switch. Use the wireless access point as a bridge to the network switch,
hook the Xbox to the switch and TaDa. Not only will you probably save
money, but you will have an extra four or five ports right next to your Xbox
for when friends come over to play. My system is setup this way using:
Wireless Router: Linksys WRT54G
WAP: Linksys WAP11
Switch: Linksys EZXS55W
The WAP11 is only capable of 11 mbps, but that seems adequate. I've had 7
Xboxes hooked up to the system with no lag on system link Halo 2, Halo, and
PGR 2 games. I'm probably going to upgrade the whole thing with a WAP54G or
WET54GS5 so I can use the Xbox as a Media Center PC Extender (the WET54GS5
is a bridge with built-in 5-port switch).
FWIW, you can pick up a WAP54G for $59 and a EZXS55W for $22 (total $81)
versus $90+ for a WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter.
Tye.
"Jeff S." <jeffsher@registerednurses.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> If the Xbox is not near the router, you need a wireless game adapter.
> If it is near the router or a computer with internet capability, you
> can hook up the Xbox via an ethernet cable.
> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/Connect/default.htm
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| Jeff S. 2005-01-27, 12:07 pm |
| Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, I have already purchased a game
adapter (Netgear "G" adapter for $76 from ZipZoomFly.com, free
shipping). I'm relatively new at this, and it did take a while before I
finally got it to work with my Linksys router. Had I know of this
setup, I probably would have gone this route, rather than the adapter.
I can see that it would be an adantage in that you could set up
multiple boxes for the price of the switch. Another advantage would
have been availability, since at the beginning of the month, most game
adapters were on back order (although that seems to have been
resolved). The advantage that I see with the adapter would be that you
could play "head to head" as long as both had the adapter, without the
need for a router.
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