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Netgear WG111 Wireless Adapter to Xbox 360

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

 

 

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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?

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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.

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