Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:43 am Post subject: XBOXLIVE - wireless or wired?!?!
just got my Xbox360 well pleased, got PGR3 & saints row so far
gonna get Xbox live again, used to have it on the normal Xbox, but i sacked it off in the end cos i was sick of trailing a cable from the computer room upstairs to my living room every time i wanted to play on it
i see that you can get wireless now for the 360
any good? what are the pros & cons?
cos its wireless does that mean you can have connection probs?
thanks lads
eltsha 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Jun 29, 2006 Posts: 184 Location: UK XP: 160
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:
Personnaly i never got on with wireless in my house, it kept dropping the connection. This may have been down to my network, as my media server keept dropping out as well.
I would reconmend getting yourselfe a pair of homeplugs http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/ you plug them into a normal power socket, one near the router and one near you 360, conect up via normal network cables and your good to go, work first time and evey time for me.
I've got some of the 85Mbps ones and can stream videos and music without a problem. If your looking at HD streaming you should get the 200Mbps versions. Also i made sure that i got the 1.6 version as they are compatible with Media Center Extender.
There not as cheap as setting up a wirless network, but they are a lot easier.
Forgot to say welcome to the site _________________________________________________________
cawood 360-HQ User
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:
thanks for the reply & welcome mate
so what are these home plugs exactly then? sorry not very clued up on this sort of stuff
would i have to use the cable still to connect Xbox to modem?
if not do i still need to buy one of those Xbox wireless net thingys
cheers
eltsha 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Jun 29, 2006 Posts: 184 Location: UK XP: 160
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:
The homelugs use your existing electricity circut to send and receive the network information.
My set up is like this, in the spare bedroom at the back of the house i have my broadband conection conected to my router, the router is then conected to my PC as normal. Also connected to the routing is a homeplug (by a standard network cable) which is pluged into a normal electricity wall socket . Down stairs in my front room sits another homeplug, again pluged into the electricity wall socket, this is the connected to my 360 by a standard network cable.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, this link http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/acatalog/diagrams.html will show you better what i mean.[/img] _________________________________________________________
cawood 360-HQ User
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:17 am Post subject:
quality! thanks for that, so i dont need bother with the microsoft Xbox wireless connector thingy
just get some home plugs & some cables to connect;
homeplug to Xbox360
&
homeplug to modem
and voila! up & running
and you have no issues with connection or speed?
thanks for your help mate!
eltsha 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: Jun 29, 2006 Posts: 184 Location: UK XP: 160
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:25 am Post subject:
No problem glad to help.
Let me how you get on with the homeplugs, personnaly i think there great, much better option than wireless for a console. _________________________________________________________
cawood 360-HQ User
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject:
will do eltsha! gonna get sorted in december, let you know how i get on
I had belkin before and it lasted about a month before it broke. So... I got a linksys and its lasted me a year so far.
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