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Originally Posted by The Beats
can any other wireless adapters work apart from the official xbox adapter
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Sort of. You can pick up a stand-alone wireless access point and use it in something called bridge mode (or WDS) if it support it. Your wireless router also has to support bridge mode (or WDS). Once you've configured both the router and the wireless access point you simply plug your normal ethernet cable between your XBox and your wireless access point and your XBox just thinks it's on a hard wired connection.
The downside is that it takes another power socket, it's not as neat, and it takes a bit more setting up. The upside is it's a heck of a lot cheaper (15 quid new, a fiver second hand), you can use it with any device that takes an ethernet cable (e.g. PC, original XBox, etc), you can also configure it to run in both bridge mode AND standard client mode meaning you effectively get a range extender. There are pros and cons either way.