Wireless gaming adaptors for Xbox 360

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I have ran my xbox on a netgear adaptor faultlessly since I had it, but bnow it looks like the adaptor has died, and is no longer in production so I can't replace it.
I trust other makes of wireless kit about as far as I could throw Vanessa Feltz, so possibly the MS one might be my best option ... but can you set it up to connect to a 128 bit WEP encrypted Router ?
Those that have them, How have you found the MS adaptor ?
 
Thanks for your help !!
I got the MS adaptor yesterday, its a total POS :(
MTU Failures most of the time (yes router is set to 1364 MTU as MS recommends).

why did Netgear discontinue the adaptor never had any probs with that until it died :(

I don't suppose anyone else has managed to fix this issue ?
 
Do you have an ADSL Router. If yes, then you have most likely changed the MTU of the ADSL interface, rather than the LAN, which would cause issues with all connected devices as they run by default with an MTU of 1500.
It is unnecessary under 99.9% of situations to ever need to change the MTU from 1500, so I'd change it back.
 
Vogon said:
Thanks for your help !!
I got the MS adaptor yesterday, its a total POS :(
MTU Failures most of the time (yes router is set to 1364 MTU as MS recommends).

why did Netgear discontinue the adaptor never had any probs with that until it died :(

I don't suppose anyone else has managed to fix this issue ?
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You ask a question late at night, and when you don't have an answer first thing in the morning you go out and buy it anyway, then blame us because you can't make it work with your setup? Eh?

The Microsoft adapter is renowned to be among the best wireless adapters out there, and I've never heard of it being anything other than faultless (except with [TW]Fox, but I have my own theory there).
 
I don't use one anymore but I never had one problem with it for the year or so I used it for.
 
Memphis said:
You ask a question late at night, and when you don't have an answer first thing in the morning you go out and buy it anyway.
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There was a day inbetween, look at the date ;)
Besides I had Hobsons choice, I would have bought another WGE111 as that has been superb, but its no longer in production and for some reason Netgear have seen fit not to make a replacement model :mad:

Memphis said:
The Microsoft adapter is renowned to be among the best wireless adapters out there.
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Not from my experience, even when I got it to pass the all the tests it then refused to connect to XBL, re-ran test and it failed MTU again ... despite not touching any of the equipment in that time :rolleyes:
Signal strength is not as good as the Netgear, but then should still have been plenty good enough, and having to play with MTU settings on the router is a bit off TBH ... never had too with the WGE111.

The Router is Netgear WGR614, so its a decent bit of kit, and every other wireless connection I have made (my laptop, friends laptops etc) worked problem free, so It can only point to the MS adaptor as the culprit IMO.

So the MS thing is going back for refund tommorow, and I supose I will have to chance my arm on either a Belkin, D-link or Linksys adaptor, Pity as I have found Netgear to be the best from past experiences.

Hopefully someone can point me to one the best option from those, or which to avoid :)
 
Ive had all sorts of problems with wireless adapters steming back to the original xbox, ive found a solution now connecting via ICS to my PC, same signal strength as if it was wired to the router. Using a Netgear WPN824 router and Netgear WPN311 wireless PCI card and the bundled 360 network cable.
 
I have had the previous adaptor around 18 months, and not one problem. Came back of hols and it refused to work !
Looking at user opinions, so far the Belkin Adaptor looks to be the most praised, will have to see if anywere local has one and try it myself at the weekend I guess.
 
No issues at all with my wifi adaptor on the 360. I have tested it on my parnets old network (BT voyager 2100) and their new network along with my network (both on philips routers) and it works without a hitch. I had to change nothing apart from the WAP security settings. Everything else was automatic.

Now the philips SNU5600 adaptor for the pc however that it is a total different story. . .
 
Other end of the house, one floor up, to much routing required :)
Just got another adaptor ... still have MTU failures, or occasionally it passes these but fails ICMP ... I know the adaptor works because hooked to my laptop is fine (if a little slow).

Just about ready to give up ... anyone wanna buy an xbox ?
 
Vogon said:
Other end of the house, one floor up, to much routing required :)
Just got another adaptor ... still have MTU failures, or occasionally it passes these but fails ICMP ... I know the adaptor works because hooked to my laptop is fine (if a little slow).

Just about ready to give up ... anyone wanna buy an xbox ?
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I assume your not in a position to try ICS with a nearby laptop/pc? You problems are exactly the same as what I suffered for about 2 years with the original Xbox and countless adapters. For some reason ICS completely solved it.
 
The main problem with the MS adapter is that it only supports up to WPA+TKIP encryption; where as the rest of my network is running on WPA2+AES which is far superior. You would think MS would upgrade their own drivers, or atleast the actual hardware if a software fix isn't possible. Even when allowing lower encryptions, the xbox will still struggle with my 63 character randomised key. It will work once and never remember it again after the initial test.

For that reason i have an ethernet connection to the xbox 360. These cheap wireless routers are the problem i swear. I have a decent 3com enterprise class access point which is rock solid. Combined with intel's wireless cards it is very reliable.
 
Cured !!

How much bad luck is this .... turns out I went away for a week (all stuff unplugged) and came back to find not only the gaming adaptor had decided it no longer wanted to find wireless networks, much less obtain an IP, but also the wireless part of my router has got the hump, oddly laptops still connect fine, but the Xbox was always failing on MTU.
I had a WAP floating around unused, so disabled the routers wireless and set the WAP up ... result !! 4 hours of online Forza2 goodness last night :D
 
I've had the Wireless Adapter since launch and it's been absolutely brilliant. That includes being used on 3 different routers, including a 128-bit key.
 
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