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30 January 2009
A great tool to avoid adding more cables to your 360
1 of 1 found this helpful The Microsoft Xbox 360 wireless network adapter is a great solution for many situations Xbox owners may face in trying to bring their game online.
If, like me, your router is very far away from where you enjoy your Xbox or on another floor of your home altogether, the Adapter is the alternative to take to running cabling throughout your home. This can be a tedious, costly and time consuming effort.
I also have the problem of the proverbial "rat's nest" or "snakes den" of cables near where I have my Xbox set up. It is with my Dish Network system, surround sound, Playstation 2, VCR, and home theater in my living room and this alone creates enough of a mess to try and hide or to even make sense of when something needs to be adjusted without adding to it unnecessarily. The adapter hooks into the body of the Xbox and connects with a very short (approximately 5 inches) USB cable. This means not having to supply an external power source to make the unit function as it is powered by the Xbox itself. No muss, no fuss.
In light of all the pros, there are a few cons that come to mind about the network adapter.
The price point is high. It's hard to believe that as cheaply as one can aquire wireless routers and the slightly more expensive wireless NIC cards, that this particular device should be as costly ($90-100 retail). Personally I had hoped to see a company like Mad Catz or Pelican produce a comparable item but it doesn't seem to be a probability any time soon. It is, after all, a Microsoft product and any 3rd party major accessories seem to be few and far between. I just think it strange that this particular item costs half of what the actual Xbox 360 costs.
Setting up the adapter in the Xbox System settings was also a bit of a drawback. I will say, I did not have any sort of instructions with my adapter, but the menus on the Xbox itself were somewhat confusing. There was no straightforward "Click me to set up your wireless network adapter I just detected!" type button. I did honestly expect something like this, since Windows does it. I would go to one menu only to be referred to another. It had to log me off the system (Player ID). I began to lose track of just where I was, but it eventually fell into place. It does offer a lot of info on your IP, ports, DSN and the like once your wireless network is detected and you connect.
Also, be aware that you almost HAVE TO HAVE a hard drive to get any use out of this item. As I mentioned earlier about expecting the Xbox to function in similar ways to Windows, it does do this by prompting you to update your system's programming. If you only have the 256 MB memory (Xbox Arcade owners), you will have to buy a hard drive as you cannot connect to Xbox LIVE until your system is updated and that will require more space than you have.
Over all though, I like the item and would recommend it to anyone looking to expand their horizons with the 360. There are freebie things you can download from LIVE such as screen savers, demo games, extra content for games you own. You can also buy older XBOX original games to be kept on your hard drive and played on 360. If you have a computer on your wireless network that has Windows Media Player installed, and have your music folders set to share through it, you can access all the movies and music through your Xbox 360 as long as that computer is on. (Which is great when one is upstairs and the other is downstairs if you are like me.)