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popper · 23-04-2009, 16:16

your 360 will only play smoothly HD 1080 level4.1 content upto 10Mbit/s ,plus 2 channel sterio AAC inside an MP4 container (use AviDemux to convert any content you have thats got more AAC audio channels than that, use MediaInfo to check that) due to the weakeses of the MS codecs included in their current 360 firmware, and they wont update them apparently, so any 11n with the wanted usable USB2 ports will do, even the old 11g will do as the 360 wireless IS only the old generic 11g anyway....

although you could use a wireless11n AP in bridge mode and wire that directly into the 360 Ethernet port and still have wireless AP to wireless router, but again , thats more techy and "extreme" to set up....

but you gain nothing from that as the 360 doesnt allow direct access to its HD from the LAN, so a generic wired 360 connection is by far the better option to keep your multi device wireless 11n speeds up, just Keep all non 11n off the 11n wireless bit, and use a seperate directly wired 11g router in to a spare 11n router port for these old bits of kit....

id still get an 11n today as it will still have the slightly better internal CPU to cope with processing demands of faster 11n +security throughput, but check out the 3rd party firmware pages for some USB HD enabled 11g and 11n compatable kit.

your going to get far better USB support from these although the 11n 3rd party firmware support seems rather spotty right now.

somone here Must have a working 11n with working USB2 HD device drivers from one of the freeware firmwares on there by now.!

VM-CM<wired>WAN-port-11n-router-lan-port1<wired>11g-router-WAN-port

connect all old 11g to the 11g router wireless channel/mac and all 11n kit to the 11n router channel/mac, but keep them apart as far as you can and be sure to use non overlapping channels, 1 and 11 for instance, theres only 3 real non overlapping channels in home 11* kit remember.

23-04-2009, 16:16	#16
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: Recommend me a router on a 20mb connection your 360 will only play smoothly HD 1080 level4.1 content upto 10Mbit/s ,plus 2 channel sterio AAC inside an MP4 container (use AviDemux to convert any content you have thats got more AAC audio channels than that, use MediaInfo to check that) due to the weakeses of the MS codecs included in their current 360 firmware, and they wont update them apparently, so any 11n with the wanted usable USB2 ports will do, even the old 11g will do as the 360 wireless IS only the old generic 11g anyway.... although you could use a wireless11n AP in bridge mode and wire that directly into the 360 Ethernet port and still have wireless AP to wireless router, but again , thats more techy and "extreme" to set up.... but you gain nothing from that as the 360 doesnt allow direct access to its HD from the LAN, so a generic wired 360 connection is by far the better option to keep your multi device wireless 11n speeds up, just Keep all non 11n off the 11n wireless bit, and use a seperate directly wired 11g router in to a spare 11n router port for these old bits of kit.... id still get an 11n today as it will still have the slightly better internal CPU to cope with processing demands of faster 11n +security throughput, but check out the 3rd party firmware pages for some USB HD enabled 11g and 11n compatable kit. your going to get far better USB support from these although the 11n 3rd party firmware support seems rather spotty right now. somone here Must have a working 11n with working USB2 HD device drivers from one of the freeware firmwares on there by now.! VM-CM<wired>WAN-port-11n-router-lan-port1<wired>11g-router-WAN-port connect all old 11g to the 11g router wireless channel/mac and all 11n kit to the 11n router channel/mac, but keep them apart as far as you can and be sure to use non overlapping channels, 1 and 11 for instance, theres only 3 real non overlapping channels in home 11* kit remember.