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southwell 04-12-2007 09:48

Use an old router to connect your Xbox wirelessly!
 
I don't know if anyone has tried this but i decided against buying a wireless adaptor for £60 and tried to setup my old router to connect it to my new router. You need to have WDS available and decent knowledge on how networks work. Im not going into a how to unless people really want it. This way you could upgrade your PS3, Xbox and anything else to Pre N, as you would be directly cabling into the router, which is an obvious advantage speed wise.
Some routers don't always work this way as they are not designed to, i had a spare Linksys which needed custom firmware installing before you could get it working.

frood42 21-12-2007 14:47

Re: Use an old router to connect your Xbox wirelessly!
 
I would be interested in doing this, I found your posting after pricing up some bridges to get my old XBOX to connect to my current wireless router (WRT54GL-UK)

I have a spare WRT54GL-UK knocking around so would be very interested to learn how to rig it to act as a bridge and save £60 :)

slysy 26-12-2007 20:02

Re: Use an old router to connect your Xbox wirelessly!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by frood42 (Post 34456630)
I would be interested in doing this, I found your posting after pricing up some bridges to get my old XBOX to connect to my current wireless router (WRT54GL-UK)

I have a spare WRT54GL-UK knocking around so would be very interested to learn how to rig it to act as a bridge and save £60 :)

I heard you can do this with tomato firmware http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware. Before you install it, check compatibility with your router. Use at your own risk, I haven't tried it myself :)

NEONKNIGHT 28-12-2007 10:00

Re: Use an old router to connect your Xbox wirelessly!
 
Sixty quid is a lot but the official microsoft wireless adapter is well worth it IMO and saves a lot a headaches when it comes to wireless networking and xbox live. Good luck with the set up.

:)

v0id 28-12-2007 18:22

Re: Use an old router to connect your Xbox wirelessly!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT (Post 34459791)
Sixty quid is a lot but the official microsoft wireless adapter is well worth it IMO and saves a lot a headaches when it comes to wireless networking and xbox live. Good luck with the set up.

:)

Doesn't come in black though

NEONKNIGHT 29-12-2007 13:07

Re: Use an old router to connect your Xbox wirelessly!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by v0id (Post 34460240)
Doesn't come in black though

Its hidden at the back of the console anyway so you're not going to see it. :D

You could always spray it black..... ;)


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