Twellsie

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right i have got an xbox 360 that i am trying to connect to my netgear router, i have a netgear ME101 wireless bridge that i used to use on my old xbox, but cus it connect through the ethernet port it doesnt give me any options to put in the wireless settings, as it thinks its wired, is there any way round this or do i need to get a proper xbox360 wireless adaptor?

thanks

Rich

Twellsie

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bump

mrjenrst

Not really sure what you mean?
But you can plug your 360 straight in using a normal ethernet cable if you want to go wireless you need the 360 add on wireless connector

FasterFords

the wireless settings go on the router, plug the ethernet cable in to the xbox and router and thats it

TIFF

Are you trying to run the Xbox "Wireless"????

Twellsie

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the netgear ME101 is a wirless adaptor that i used to run my old xbox, that connects wireless to your router, i know you can just plug the 360 straight into the router, but as my tv/360 ae i the lounge and te router is in the hall i wanted to do it wireless and woundered this would work before i spend £50 on a 360 wireless adaptor

saffsta

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You may have to buy the proper adaptor, I bought a wireless network adaptor for my 360 and it found my wireless router with no problems at all even with my pc that is wired

Hope that helps

FasterFords

the netgear ME101 should work, but you need to set up the wireless within it, nothing need doing on the xbox other than plugging the ethernet cable in.

xr4x4rs

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he doesnt want to plug an ethernet cable in though as it would mean cables from hall to lounge

rich

go buy the wireless adaptor for the xbox you should be sorted

i did have but my mates borrowed it to try something and his house is being fully decorated so no chance i can even get mine back yet for you to try, i could find out tomorrow though if he has an idea wher it is so may be lucky

FasterFords

he doesn't need long cables with that just put it next to the xbox and plug in.

if you dont know what it is, dont comment

FletchCossie

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You need the wireless network adapter. The XB360 will not go wireless without it!

xr4x4rs

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you mean a cable to go from his router to his xbox yes

an ethernet cable which i have 2 coming out of my router to my xbox and pc

if its something different to a cable then please tell me

as im sure an ethernet cable is a cable

obviously if m wrong or ive mis read then i apoligise

Porkie

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I tried loads of shit.... then just got the XBOX official thing and it was plug and play and sooo easy

Rob

I used to use a ME101 and suffered with big lag on the xbox1 as it kept dropping packets. After this experience I was a little reluctant to to try the 360 wireless adapter and it is faultless. Performance is superb via wireless and I have wireless for the very same reason.

BTW look on ebay they are much cheaper well last time I looked, and sell the ME101.

Rob

Escort-Ian

With regards to the xbox 360 wireless adapter, what colour light should be on the the adapter? My mate give me one and it doesn't see my wireless router and has a red light on it, I guess this means it's a bit goosed?

(I mean the red light on the adapter, not the console lol)

Rob

once it's connected to your router it will turn green. I suspect you'll need to check the encryption settings and whether mac address filtering is enabled on your router. Assuming you have enter all the other wireless details into the network settings.

Rob

Escort-Ian

Cheers Rob, I'll check it out tonight

tonyk

Some good old bad advice given on here as per usual.

As one person said you can use the ethernet wireless bridge that you have now to turn any non wireless device into a wireless one. This plugs into the back of your Xbox 360, you then log into your wireless router and have it assign an IP address via dhcp or you can manually assign it one.

If you run mac filtering security on your router you need to add the netgear ME101 mac and the mac of the xbox 360. The xbox will never know its connected via wireless. The idea of a wirelss bridge is to bridge a wired network to a wireless one.

Ian , your question about the micorosft adapter: It is red because it can detect and see your router but it cant connect to it. Add your xbox 360's mac and the mac of the wireless device to your router.

FasterFords

Thank god, someone who can understand the question and what the kit does

Twellsie

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cheers Tonyk

i have finally got it to bloody work, but it seems to be mega slow, like a delay? would the proper 360 adaptor solve this?

tonyk

It may be slow due to the spec of the netgear adapter, it is an 802.11B device which means it has a maximum signal rate of 11mbps though in reality this can be lower usually about 4-5mbps and around 35 metres distance. The distance is line of sight and things like walls can reduce this down.

The Xbox 360 adapter is a 802.11G device which has a maximum signal rate of 54mbps and an average of around 20mbps and a similar range. Yes this will be better as it has a higher average transfer rate than your current setups maximuim transfer rate.

An ethernet cable has a maximum data rate of 100mbps which is why you may suffer some speed issues after going to wireless.