Wirelessly Connecting a 360 without the Wifi Dongle

benskia · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:01

Hi everyone.

I just recently bought myself a 360.
Not had much of a play with it yet. I'm holding out until christmas.

I love online gaming, but seeing as the console will be downstairs used on the HDTV, it's miles away from my netgear router.

Going WiFi would be the ideal option. I already have a laptop downstairs, which I have wireless internet setup on.

Is there anyway I can make an internet connection to the 360 without spending the hideous amount of money for the official WiFi dongle?

Can I buy some kind of WiFi receiver that I can connect into the 360 via a standard cable? Or place the laptop near the 360 and run a cable from that?

Cheers.

Caustic · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:05

benskia said:
Can I buy some kind of WiFi receiver that I can connect into the 360 via a standard cable? Or place the laptop near the 360 and run a cable from that?

Both options would work. You can either buy a normal ethernet wireless bridge, or run an ethernet cable to your laptop and use that to share the net access.

The only thing you can't do is buy a 3rd party USB network adapter. Otherwise, should be just fine.

benskia · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:15

Thanks.
Would this work?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-012-SM

Memphis · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:17

It would.

benskia · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:20

sweet.
thanks!

gavindo · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:39

thanks also as i want to do the same

LadFromWales · 4 Dec 2006 at 00:50

Wonder how many ports that thing has...may get one if it has more than one, so I can hook up the downstairs PC and original XBOX to my network without the hassles of running a long cable down or buying the 'official' wireless devices both.

GeezerButler · 4 Dec 2006 at 22:26

The SMC one only has one 10/100 wired ethernet port. I wanted to do the same, hooking up my media center and 360.

FrankJH · 5 Dec 2006 at 08:37

Why not buy a small 10/100 switch and connect one port to the wireless bridge, and the other three / seven ports to what ever device you need - that should work shouldnt it?

Ok it will cost you 30 quid more or so but nothing astonomical

PS i have found some bridges dont talk to some routers so look in your router settings to see if the same options are available I bought a netgear bridge thinking it would connect to my netgear router when it doesnt (about 7 months ago)