Xbox 360 Wireless Adaptor

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GavinMannion

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Morning People....

I am hopefully picking up my X360 wireless adaptor today... I have a small problem though. Where the hell do I find one :)

I know Animeworx in Brightwater has them, Take2 also has some..

Does anyone know where I can get the best deal on one?

I'm in JHB/Sandton/Randburg area.
 
Did you get one yet? I'm also interested. Was thinking of getting it from play-asia..but wouldn't mind if it was available locally for more or less the same price.
 
I've got to be honest, WiFi is the biggest sore point for the 360 for me :(

Why should a simple WiFi adapter cost so much, my ADSL wireless router cost that! a decent WiFi pci card can be had for R250, so it should be about R400 at most!

</rant>
 
100% agree... my wireless router was R870, R10 more than a wireless card.

Bit of a rip in my personal opinion. But I could just use a cable so at least I still have a choice which is what I like...
 
all the wifi adapters are just simple wireless network bridges.

if you got an old wireless router (or even a cheap new one) that can run in bridge mode you are all set. there is no need for some "official" networking adapter.

the xbox360 one can be had in a usb version, but there is no reason why a wireless router/bridge handing off the normal ethernet port wont suffice even better.
 
see here
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge

and
http://forums.anandtech.com/message...eyword=&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

both tutorials seem complicated, but the idea is the same.

you already have a wireless network, and you want to add another device to it...so you connect your new device, physically, with a normal lan cable to a wireless bridge (or a router running in bridge mode) and use the two "wireless" parts to connect yourlan together.

in your case, a lan cable running out the back of the 360 to a wrt54g (or similar) sitting behind the tv would be good. voila! "wireless" xbox.

this feasibility of this all depends on what you have available, and how much the stuff would cost. but essentially, the xbox wireless adapter worked this way, and this trick will work just fine for xbox 360.
 
Wow that is very logical really isn't it... And then I would also be expanding the size of my wireless network wouldn't I?

Currently it covers my whole house but is slow in the bedrooms, the Xbox is much closer to the bedrooms..
 
hmmm..not really...as the new wireless "router" will be acting as a "wireless network card" for the 360...not really as a listening device for other pc's the way i set mine up...

if you check the example pictures on the ddwrt wiki, you can see the secondary wirless device does not have any wireless clients attached to it...
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Image:Standard_bridge_large.jpg
you basically "bridge" the wired lan ports, and then make an invisible cable out of the wirless side, dedicated to connect to your existing wirless router..
 
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Yeah I saw that but what stops me making the second router an Access point instead of a network card and then linking the Xbox directly to the Access point through an ethernet cable?
 
nothing:-)
well, nothing that my miniscule networking knowledge can see wrong.
:-)
 
Wouldn't that be much easier as well then.. more useful to.

Makes me think it won't work otherwise there would be articles about that on the net as well :)... I have very very very little wireless knowledge so you are the guru in this test :)..
 
ask your lan admin at work...dont say xbox though, just say "another pc" as the concept is the same...draw him your network map...what you want to achieve.

or maybe some other kind soul can pop into this thread and advise????
 
Would a Netgear 54 Mbps Wireless Access Point - WG602UK connect okay with a Linksys Wireless Access Point Router with 4 Port Switch 802.11g ??????

I have the linksys currently but I can get the Netgear at a good price??
 
It doesn't seem to work. I tried to use a Gigabyte USB WLAN adapter last night. I only spent about 5 minutes on it - had to go out with the girlfriend - so I'll give it another go tonight.
 
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