Xbox 360 Wireless network adapter

[fredster]

Can you use something else besides this $100 Microsoft adapter?

Like a Belkin $39 adapter instead?

[Zeosstud]

Its my understanding that any wireless bridge will work fine.  They say, while pricey, the Microsoft one really does work well however.  I dont use one personally, but thats what I have read.

Zeosstud

[Hoagie_one]

I guess you can set up a couple wireless routers to do it too through the Ethernet port.

[fredster]

I don't think after looking through forums that any USB wireless adapter will work, unless it's the stock MS.

When you talk about a "bridge" you are talking about another router.  One that has a direct ethernet hookup and then uses the wireless to connect to another router?

 

[Hoagie_one]

http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEZpkkEkZuebWtRAyc.php

[fredster]

Ah HA!

Dat's it.  I can get a Belkin at Wally World for $39.  Cord comes with it.

BWHWHAHAHHAHA

[SirPoonga]

xbox.com's 360 support site has a list of compatible bridges.

A bridge makes an ethernet port into a wireless device.  You can do the same thing with most wireless routers by putting them into bridge mode.

The microsoft adaptor is a dual band adaptor, that's partly why it is so expensive.  It supports 802.11a/b/g