Help plz

[Fuller107]

Hiyah Xbox 360 people . I was wondering yeh i want 2 setup up xbox wirelessly. I no its not da best option but its da onli way i can do it. I need 2 now what da type of wireless router works da best.

Thanks lads/ladettes

[Other]

As far as I know most wireless routers work the same. There's no way you can play xbl with a wireless router though. You'll be lagging in every game.

[paintba||er]

Apple Airport Extreme....

Originally Posted by Other

As far as I know most wireless routers work the same. There's no way you can play xbl with a wireless router though. You'll be lagging in every game.

No you won't. Your router will most likely be much faster than your internet connection. My mini gets the wireless signal from my router, and I share the connection from that through the ethernet port to my 360, so that adds yet another thing that could cause more delay, but still I experience almost no lag ever besides recently when Live has been screwed.

[Other]

You may be an exception, but I've heard from too many people and experienced it myself to believe that a wireless connection is trustworthy.

[paintba||er]

It seems more likely that you're the exception.

[Other]

"but I've heard from too many people"

If you must argue with everyone at least make an argument based on their post.

[johnfive5]

I have verizon's 795k something (the cheap one) and run wireless on Xbox live and I very rarely get lag. I run the Xbox through my laptop's wireless connection and it works great. Any router will work by the way I would go either Linksys or Belkin if you running windows. If your running Mac then ask Paint cause I don't know. Don't forget you are going to need the Xbox wireless adapted also or run it through a laptop like do.

[paintba||er]

Originally Posted by Other

"but I've heard from too many people"

If you must argue with everyone at least make an argument based on their post.

I'm not trying to argue, I'm just saying that so new impressionable users don't get false information. There is really no reason why wireless would be laggy unless you live in a mansion with your router on the opposite side of your Xbox or something, but if you do live in a mansion then I don't think buying a second router to put in the middle of your mansion, or getting a wireless n router to extend the range is going to be too much of a financial plunge. You may have had a bad experience with it because of a bad setup, a lot of interference, or something like that, but that is obviously not going to be the case for most users.

Originally Posted by johnfive5

I have verizon's 795k something (the cheap one) and run wireless on Xbox live and I very rarely get lag. I run the Xbox through my laptop's wireless connection and it works great. Any router will work by the way I would go either Linksys or Belkin if you running windows. If your running Mac then ask Paint cause I don't know. Don't forget you are going to need the Xbox wireless adapted also or run it through a laptop like do.

Damn, that would be annoying to do with a laptop. Its fine for me to do with my mini since it is stationary, but constantly plugging it in and disconnecting it would suck ass. And any router should work with a Mac too, the Apple ones are just sexier. (I use a Linksys right now)

[TTR Dr Payne]

I would highly recommend you use THIS list of routers(from the official XBOX webpage) to select a router as you will be guranteed to get a good router that will work fine with XBL.

Other, if you have a slow connection then you will experience lag with wireless connections, aswell as wired. But as long as your connection is fast enough, and your XBOX is within acceptable range of your wireless router, you will not experience lag even with a wireless router. Basically the only reason you would experience lag is if your connection is not fast enough, or your XBOX is out of range(or at the edge of the range) of your router.
Obviously a hardwire connection is always a better choice, but its not always a possible choice.


and Fuller, please do not make another post talking like that...that was painfull to read.

[paintba||er]

Hmm...I wonder why the Airport Extreme/Express wasn't on the list.