Netgear WG111 Wireless Adapter to Xbox 360

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Anyone know of any ways to get the adapter to work with a 360? I tried and it doesn't do anything when hooked up.

[MrRant]

None of them will work. You need either the MS adapter, a Ethernet run or get a wireless bridge. I use a wireless bridge.

[KingPK]

Which is the cheapest route to go? I'll pay the $100 for the Wireless Adapter if I have to, but if I can save a few bucks, so be it.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

None of them will work. You need either the MS adapter, a Ethernet run or get a wireless bridge. I use a wireless bridge.

 

 

What if I get this

 

 

http://monoprice.com/products/product.asp?...=1&format=2

 

 

360 to Cat5 Cable to Converter to USB adapter?

[MrRant]

If you check around, you could find a wireless bridge for cheaper. Plus then if you hook up a hub to it you could have multiple Ethernet devices on.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

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I already have the Netgear Wireless Adapter. I'm just trying to think of ways to get it to work.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

I forgot I have this also. http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MR814v3.asp

 

 

Can I hook the Ethernet cable from a 802.11g Netgear router into the WAN slot on this and then run Ethernet cables to my computer and 360?

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Anyone?

[MrRant]

You can, but you need to turn off the DHCP server in it and turn it into a switch. But if you are going that route, why not just buy a long ethernet cable and go direct from your router to your 360 without having this in the way?

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

You can, but you need to turn off the DHCP server in it and turn it into a switch. But if you are going that route, why not just buy a long ethernet cable and go direct from your router to your 360 without having this in the way?

 

 

Cause I already have a long ethernet cable running from the router to my desktop. This way, less cables running along the floor.

 

 

[CanadianGuitarist]

I'm in a similar boat; What makes a wireless bridge different from a wireless router? How do things connect to a bridge? What's the range like? What can I connect to it?

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Bridging and Routing are both ways of performing data control, but work through different methods. Bridging takes place at OSI Model Layer 2 (Data-Link Layer) while Routing takes place at the OSI Model Layer 3 (Network Layer). This difference means that a bridge directs frames according to hardware assigned MAC addresses while a router makes its decisions according to arbitrarily assigned IP Addresses. As a result of this, bridges are not concerned with and are unable to distinguish networks while routers can.

 

When designing a network, you can choose to put multiple segments into one bridged network or to divide it into different networks interconnected by routers. If a host is physically moved from one network area to another in a routed network, it has to get a new IP address; if this system is moved within a bridged network, it doesn't have to reconfigure anything.