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 Good. But.... October 5, 2008
Mr. Gideon G. Beddows (Rugeley, Staffordshire. England)
If you CAN put your Xbox360 near to your wireless router and run a cable then you SHOULD.
Wireless is NEVER faster than a cable.
However, if like me, this is not possible then you must have a bridge. After all, why have an Xbox360 if you are not going to play online?
It is very, very easy to set up and install as long as you have the information that you need about logging into your router.
My own wireless bridge took literally 5 minutes to install.
My work colleague asked me to do his for him and it took over 2 hrs, mainly because his router had a security setting on it which meant that you had to manually type in the 'code' of the machine trying to access the router.
This said, both mine and his have never had any problems.
3 stars only? Because you CANNOT shop around and buy this cheaper. It is a monopoly and should be questioned by trading standards or something?
NOTE: One thing to check. Go to the Xbox360 website and look to see if your router is on their compatible list (non compatible ones generally give a bad NAT rating). I had a Belkin and ended up buying a Netgear because if your N.A.T. setting is not 'OPEN' you cannot play properly on XBOX LIVE. You can always do 'port forwarding' but i'd rather pull out my own teeth with rusty pliers than get into that complicated load of old nonsense!! :o)
 Overpriced August 24, 2008
Zabba (THAT island)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this product does work very well from what I've seen, it's simply too expensive. Couple this with the 40 a gold membership costs, you'll end up paying roughly 100 just to get Live up and running. Those who can connect there's directly by wire don't need to worry as they don't have to shell out 50- 60 for this, but for people like me, who's 360 lies ever so far away from a wireless router, it's an extremely annoying hinderance.
Also take into account, the Wii has this built in, now, fair enough, the Wii's online service isn't as developed or as good as Live, but it's free and built in nevertheless. I don't mind paying for this product in general, but at 50-60 I find myself thinking that's it's just not worth the money.
Good but no WPA2 August 20, 2008
Film Fan (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simple to install, reliable, easy to configure BUT does NOT support WPA2 (supports WPA though). Even though there's an option on the 360 setup that says WPA2 (greyed out) this item does not support it whatever else you may hear. There's even a knowledgebase article on www.xbox.com apologizing for some incorrect manuals that claim that it does support it. Come on Microsoft, even my two year old Netgear WAP can do WPA2!
Second gripe is of course the price. Yes, it's very neat, matches the 360, configures easily and nicely clips onto the back of the machine, but is that really justification for TRIPLE the price of any other USB wireless adaptor? No, it's just a rip off. Sure put on some margin for the 360 badging, but times three? Get real.
Given the pain WiFi can be, the ease of setup gets this to score three stars. Would have been five, but high price loses one star and no WPA2 loses another.
 Excellent Investment July 29, 2008
Mrs. K. M. Davies (Manchester, England)
True - 50-60 is a good deal of money to splash out on one little bit of kit. But boy, is it worth it! I can connect to Xbox LIVE wired or wirelessly, and the ONLY sure-fire way to connect without any wires is this little beauty.
The investment is definetly worth it. If you want/need wireless connection to LIVE, this is the way forward.
 Job Done July 18, 2008
Sanjay (bristol, UK)
I'm just going to reiterate what people here have been saying. I got this, plugged it in, it detected my network and I was online in a few minutes. DONE!
The reception is very good even between 2 walls and a ceiling. The instructions are rubbish but it's quite simple (go to network settings, EDit settings, Network Type (or something), input WEP key DONE!
The only real downside is the COST! However, this appears to be quality bit of kit & stops my wife from complaining about the wires.
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