Hooking Xbox up to wireless

[Flame On]

Does anyone know if you need the wireless network adapter from Xbox ? Or can you use say a wireless receiver that has an ethernet port and then connect from that? Like a lynksys wireless G usb router or something?

[Russic]

Pretty sure you need the wireless adapter (100$ at futureshop). I haven't really investigated this though, so maybe somebody around here has a better solution.

[TurnedTheCorner]

I investigated this somewhat thoroughly before buying my 360 in January and ultimately going with a wired connection. My connection is just as you describe - my internet goes into my wireless gateway which broadcasts the wireless signal for my PC, Wii, and DS, but then I have a LAN cable running from the gateway to my 360 and to my HD-DVD player. If you have an existing wireless network and your gateway/router is close enough to make it feasible to run a wired connection to your 360, it will definitely work.

There are LAN-to-wireless bridges out there, but they're hard to find. It would basically "trick" your 360 into believing it had a LAN connection while it was really connecting to wireless network. Buffalo had one of the better products I found, but they're in some kind of litigation limbo as a company or something.

I have no idea if a generic device like a wireless printer hub or anything would work with the 360 and allow it to connect to your wireless network or not.

[MolsonInBothHands]

I have my old modded xbox hooked to the home network with these:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/NETGEAR-XE104NA-X...QQcmdZViewItem

They work well enough to stream video to the xbox from my media server. My daughter has her room connected the same way, and it works great.

[Flaming Choy]

not sure if this is what your asking for, but you could use your laptop (if you have one) or a near by pc that has internet and connect your xbox to that.

http://www.trap17.com/forums/interne...op-t54749.html