XBox Live question

Kevin2006

I havent got an xbox yet but im thinking about getting one. My question is, my xbox will be in my bedroom - far away from my internet connection and router. Will I have to get a big ethernet cable and plug it in everytime I want to play on Xbox Live or is there a wireless option out there? It would be a real pain to run up and down the stairs to connect the two.

lee_baby_simms

Kevin2006 wrote:

I havent got an xbox yet but im thinking about getting one. My question is, my xbox will be in my bedroom - far away from my internet connection and router. Will I have to get a big ethernet cable and plug it in everytime I want to play on Xbox Live or is there a wireless option out there? It would be a real pain to run up and down the stairs to connect the two.

You can buy an optional wireless adaptor for around 80 or 90 quid. I have one and it works just fine.

Kevin2006

You can buy an optional wireless adaptor for around 80 or 90 quid. I have one and it works just fine.

Cool. How does it work? Im with imagine broadband, do you have to pay anything extra? Does it just plug into the router? Is it fast?

lee_baby_simms

I presume it would work fine although I've heard xbox live is incompatible with certain routers. You won't have to pay imagine anything extra but xbox live costs 60 a year.

The wireless adaptor just plugs into the usb port at the back. Then its just a case of opening a few ports on the router. Its as fast as you're broadband will allow.

I have a router at at the front of the house and the 360 is upstairs at the back, no problems at all.

ntlbell

make sure it's a wireless router before u fork out on the card

projectmayhem

while we're on it, where's the cheapest place (not online preferably, cc is taking quite a hit this month) to get the wireless adaptor?

ntlbell

80e seems to be the cheapest smyths/harvey norman

GrumPy

The OP might be talking about an xbox guys

*if* so, you can buy a wireless ethernet bridge for quite cheap on ebay.