So I needed to pick one of these up and found it for $81.99 with free shipping from buy.com

Just thought I'd share in case anyone else needs one.

http://www.buy.com/prod/linksys-wga5.../10351886.html

Now I can finally hook up my elite.

See you guys online this weekend

 

Does it really make a different from all the other Linksys routers? Cause I just bought a regualr one for like 50 bucks and it goes online just find, is there anything special that they put in it to make it better? NOS probably....

 

I had to buy this one because my router is in another part of the house and running ethernet cable is out of the question. This will allow me to wirelessly connect to my router.

Add a hub to this and you should be able to connect more than one device to the adapter as well although I won't know until I try it. For now only my elite will be connected directly to it.

I had the same setup for my xbox but sold my old wireless bridge and hub with the system earlier this year because I wanted to get an updated wireless bridge using the G network for faster speed.

 

I cant get this stupid thing to work! Help!

 

I just sent you a PM.

 

Its in infrastructure mode and I think I set it up correctly with the SSID of my network and the password for it. Im using WPA security dunno if that matters. I also switched to channel 5 cause its said too in live. I know Im getting a signal from my network it just wont connect. during setup I have to add my ssid and password correct? and then scan it from the media thing and then add my password again? Im usinga dlink gaming router if that matters. I really dont want to go back to using the xbox thing.

 

Should I set up my ip address manually or auto? Ive been trying auto

 

^^^ WPA does not work with this adapter as far as I know. Only WEP does.

I think it was mantis that asked me if WPA security worked with this as well in another thread which I can't find...

still searching....

 

That shouldn't matter.

 

Now I can connect to the network but wont get an IP address. WTF

 

Found the thread...

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...3&page=2&pp=25

You even posted in that thread on that page after I stated WPA doesn't work.

 

Ah damn it I thought you ment in your old router.
Any reason why wpa doesnt work? It does show the options for it. tkip is wpa and aes is for wpa2.

 

is the 360 not getting an IP or is sthe bridge not getting an IP?

 

I think the bridge isnt getting an ip. It says I have 3 wireless clients connected to the router but one doesnt have an ip

 

No idea. I don't even remember seeing the options for WPA to be honest.

I have my router currently setup for WEP (i need to go back and really work on fixing the security).

when I read the user's guide they didn't mention WPA security, only WEP.

My wife's laptop doesn't use WPA, that's one of the reasons why I didn't configure my router to use WPA [yet] hence why I'm using WEP on the router and bridge.

 

I don't know what to tell you man, I had no issues hooking mine up.

it connected to my router on the first try after following their instructions word for word as I'm sure you did.

the only difference between yours and mine is you are trying to use WPA security as far as I can tell.

Try assigning a specific IP to the bridge and see if that works. Also you could try mac address filtering on your router and force your router to give the same IP you program in the bridge based on the bridges mac address.

 

yeah I was thinking about trying manual ip but I have no idea what how to assign it manually.

 

I'm not a fan of linksys routers... I prefer D-link, but I gave them another chance years later, recently bought a linksys router for my condo, needless to say, still the same crap, wireless connection drops for no reason.

 

This isn't a router though.


I do agree, their routers suck a$$, My previous one always dropped signal and so did my in-laws linksys router.

This ethernet bridge isn't so bad to be honest. My last ethernet bridge was also a linksys and I never had any issues with that either.

 

1) Pick an IP that isn't used on your network, log into your router and see if it provides mac address filtering. If it does, set the mac address of your ethernet bridge to the IP you chose in the "Lan IP setup" section. It may be titled something else on your router.

2) If you got through step 1, in the bridge's IP settings, set it to the IP you chose in step #1.


If your router doesn't support mac address filtering, you can still set the IP in step #2, you'll just need to always remmeber that you've used that IP for the bridge in case in the future you accidentally use that IP for another device, or the router assigns tthat IP to another device automatically. To get around this, try selecting an IP that is very high, like 192.168.1.250

 

my signal used to drop.. then i got DD-WRT firmware for it... but my laptop would still drop in signal.. even though my father's did not... so i updated the wireless card driver, and presto, perfect signal

 

I figured out why it didnt work (kinda) I noticed that under the networking options you need to download some file from your computer to set up wireless gaming adapters or what not onto a usb drive and then install it on the 360 for these things to work. too bad I returned it and got the xbox one again. Oh well, I figured out my lag problems as well in the router settings so Im good to go.

 

I didn't have to do that on my elite. Are you running an older 360 core or premium? I wonder if the elite has this already pre-installed and hence why I didn't have any issue with it on my elite.

 

I just bought the WRTSL54GS and the first thing I did was blow away the firmware and load DD-WRT, it hasn't dropped a signal yet with wireless and it is much more configureable, but you better know quite a bit about networking (or be able to do google searches).

I was having problems with my old router of constantly dropping packets, but with this router and firmware combination I was able to solve that problem which my old router a Netgear wasn't able to do.