Anyone have this thing?

Customer reviews on Gamestop are all very good, just wanted to see if any of my acura brethren have reviews of their own.

I'm asking for a subscription to Xbox live for Channukah and thought I might as ask for this too. I am running wireless in my apt, and would prefer to not have to deal with breaking out my old POS router, and dealing with wild running cat5.

Lemme know, thanks.

 

I have it on my xbox, it works as advertised and its nice not to have a cat5 cable going accross the room. however wifi networks in a house can be tricky to get a good connection going, id suggest putting a laptop by your xbox to see how good your signal strength is there before purchasing just to make sure itll work for you

 

My xbox is in my room so the router would be no more then 7ft away from my airport Base Station

Plus, I get a good connection in the living room as well, if I were to ever take it out there.

Thank you, I shall ask for this.

 

make sure you buy the microsoft one. i bought the linksys one, and even though it says on the box "xbox compatible", my xbox won't recognize it. and i cant get it to work with my network without disabling the encryption, so basically my network is unsecure when i'm on xbox live.

 

thats the one I am asking for (microsoft)

I hyperlinked a picture of everything next to each item on the list. So there can be no mistakes made

 

I use the linksys one on my xbox just fine... and its on another floor on the other side of the house.


you prolly have it in asynchronous mode

 

Any 802.11 *bridge* will work fine... if it's not working it's because you have it setup wrong. Or it's broken...

 

I doubt its broken, i'm almost positive its setup wrong, but i can't figure out how to fix it.

edit: i would just assume that the microsoft one would be the easiest to just plug and play, no compatibility issues.

 

Well, I got xbox live...and had to go buy the wireless adapter myself.

Only one i could find in over 10 different stores was the damn linksys wirelss G gaming adpater.

So...here is my big problem... I use apple airport for my wireless. I have turned off encryption i have plugged in numbers.

How teh fuck do i get these two things to mesh. It doesnt help that the xbox "network settings" sucks and is unclear in what it wants.

any help would be nice, or im returning this piece of shit, and ordering a microsoft one. hoping that that one will work...

and its telling me there is no wireless adapter connected...

 

yeah it says that for me too, my guess is since its not the Microsoft brand adapter, the xbox won't recognize it.

 

how the hell did you get yours to work then???

ive tried everything. and the people at linksys are morons.

 

is the Airport seeing the wireless bridge?

 

i have no clue.

 

I don't know anything about the apple airport, if I did i might be able to help you better. I basically just plugged mine in and it worked. I had to make sure encryption and mac filtering were turned off though. (I later figured out how to get it to work using mac filtering...i kept putting the mac address of the linksys adapter on my list, when the whole time i should have been putting the XBOX's mac address on the list. Once i did that, it worked fine). And you are right, the people at linksys are morons

edit: you have the wireless G adapter? does the apple airport use 802.11b or g? if its b, and the linksys adapter isn't backwards compatible, that might be your problem i don't know much about networking, but i'm sure somebody here will know.

 

^ Sandman I have Airport Extreme that is g

 

So get this, I call a Gamestop way out in Pasadena ask them if they have the microsoft adpater...after being stumped by what im talking about they look and say yes.
So, I trek out there...i see the box on the wall...pick it up....empty....

They...again....look stumped. they go looking for it, cant find it, then they pick up the box and on the back is a sticker saying promo use only.

Fucking nimrods...and these werent kids either....idiot losers that too dumb to operate in life let alone a damn game store....seriously, how hard is it to check the fucking box.

 

sarlacc

why dont u just go to a freakin best buy

 

I use a DLINK. ANy bridge that will work with your router is fine.

 

You dont think I havent? I have been to more then one.
Where do you think I found the linksys.
NO ONE HAS ANYTHING IN STOCK RIGHT NOW. its fucking annoying as piss.

 

When you go into your xbox dashboard > network settings > wireless. deos it recognize the adapter? cause if not then it wont work fine with my network.

Hell, I dont know if using the microsoft one will.

This is the one time where owing a mac system is keeping me down.

 

No, my guess is his xbox won't recognize the dlink adapter, just like mine and yours don't recognize the linksys adapter. BUT, i'm positive that an xbox will recognize the microsoft adapter (the bitches at microsoft probably designed it that way to force people to buy the microsoft brand hardware). If i were you, i would just return the linksys adapter, and order the microsoft one online (since none of the stores around you have it). It might take a couple days, but at least it will work. I don't know if there are compatibility issues with your mac, but it would make sense if that were the case because i have a pc and mine was just plug and play.

 

I am going to return the linksys...just dont want to deal with it during the weekend madness.

I will most likley order the microsoft...but i would rather find it here so if it doesnt work either i can just return.

Im hoping if i order it off gamestop.com i can just return it to the store in the mall if it doesnt work either.

sigh....what a pain in the ass.

 

I finally found a microsoft one!!! Returned the shitty linksys. Got the MS one.
Picked up my network and I'm on!!! had to diasble my security to do it, but I'll play around more later tonight figure out how to keep my security intact.

 

oh yeah security is now intact....im fucking ready

 

Yeah good you're going. I finally got my xbox back online since I moved. I have wireless here.

I got a DLINK 802.11g wireless bridge. Works fine. Just be sure to setup the bridge to be on the ip group your wireless lan is on. If you have MAC filtering on like I do, you'll have to tell the xbox to clone a MAC address and be sure to add the MAC to your filter list (allow of course). You can make one up or take one off of an existing device. I cloned the address on my laptop ethernet adapter since I hardly use it as I connect wireless with my laptop

Anyway FYI for inquiring minds.