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Title: Offical Wireless Adaptor
Post by: DeMoN_DARREN on November 25, 2007, 06:23:00 AM

Hey, not sure if this is the right forum, but i would have thought its atleast related to xbox live!

Just have a few quick questions about the offical wireless adaptor;
1.  I'm using a gateway for my wireless card to my lan cable to my console right now.  If i condense this to simply the console connecting to the wireless network using the adaptor, will i notice a speed boost?

2.  Can you add an antenna to the adaptor?  My wireless card has a screw on antenna that i've replaced with a more powerful one, can the same be done for the adaptor?

3.  How is the thing?   (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)   Never heard many personal reviews of it and was wondering how everyone found it?

Thanks

Title: Offical Wireless Adaptor
Post by: Reaper527 on November 30, 2007, 02:10:00 PM

i personally used the xbox1 adapter, and that one had an attached antenna (couldn't be removed/replaced). i believe you will run into the same thing with the 360 wireless adapter. what i would recommend, is instead of getting the adapter, get a 2nd cheap wireless router that is compatible with the DD-WRT firmware. you can then update the antenna on your router and bridge it with the router you currently have, in essence making the 2nd router do the same thing as the wireless adpater (at half the cost)

Title: Offical Wireless Adaptor
Post by: DaDillsta on December 01, 2007, 01:19:00 AM

Hmm. How could you do that? I'm quite interested as I have another router lying around with DD-WRT on it myself, lol.

Title: Offical Wireless Adaptor
Post by: evanmugford on December 02, 2007, 02:18:00 PM

antena is fixed you cannot remove it.

you won't see any consderable difference really,   how is it?

besides looks and initial setup, its really the same thing,  turn on box, it connects.

ive been running mine about 2 years now, and have had no real problem with it.

once in a while it dosn't turn on ( this only happens when i unhook the 360,  to fix it you just drain the power adaptor ( unplu and turn on 360)   other than that its flawless

Title: Offical Wireless Adaptor
Post by: Reaper527 on December 02, 2007, 04:25:00 PM

QUOTE(DaDillsta @ Dec 1 2007, 03:19 AM)

Hmm. How could you do that? I'm quite interested as I have another router lying around with DD-WRT on it myself, lol.

turn on WDS on both routers, put them on the same subnet, and in the WDS field you put the other router's ip address. also, turn off dhcp on the 2nd router.  this will make the 2nd router essentially act like a wireless access point.