Need a wireless bridge

[Cookie]

As cheap as poss, can't be fucked with buying an official MS adapter for the 360 and I'm pissed off with the 20m CAT5 cable trailing through my flat

 

[iain187]

can't drill holes in the wall?

 

[Cookie]

Don't own the place, otherwise I'd just run the cables properly

 

[Mark One]

cables FTW. Wireless sucks ball

 

[Sym0n]

Or powerline it?

 

[AK]

I've had this for 6 months works a treat

http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...ing+adapter&cid=818358327383950524&sa=title#p

 

[Longy]

Or powerline it?

This, wireless sucks for pings.

 

[Mot!]

I've had this for 6 months works a treat

http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...ing+adapter&cid=818358327383950524&sa=title#p

They're so sucky to set up!

I'd go for powerline adapters chap, wait for the orange homeplug's on ebay, they're put on every so often, £17 BIN everytime

 

[Cookie]

Thing is, if I spend 40 quid on it, I may as well buy the official one

 

[AK]

They're so sucky to set up!

I'd go for powerline adapters chap, wait for the orange homeplug's on ebay, they're put on every so often, £17 BIN everytime

Sucky?

SRSLY?

LOL it took me 2 seconds to set it up.

Plug into PC, asked for network name & WEP key, done.

 

[DMS]

I love how everyone bangs on about wireless being crap for pings. I bet half of you don't even truely understand what a ping is, what it does, how it's constructed and what it means in the real world.
If you've got decent equipment and a decent signal there's no reason for it to be any worse than using an ethernet cable as your transport medium (not noticeably anyway). And if you're using Xbox Live you'll still be using the same internet connection, so if you've got a decent wireless setup your internet connection (or indeed the ISP) will still be the slowest point in the equation.
On my wireless network at home, I can do "ping -t" from my laptop to my wireless AP and get the echo response back in < 5ms constantly.

So in answer to the OP, get yourself a Cisco Aironet 1200 series AP and enable bridging on it - works a treat and I'm willing to bet my left testicle you can't find another AP for sale with a better signal strength.

 

[Cookie]

I think I'm just gonna buy the official MS one, everything everyone has suggested is roughly the same price anyway

Plus, I'm well aware of what a ping is

 

[Longy]

I love how everyone bangs on about wireless being crap for pings. I bet half of you don't even truely understand what a ping is, what it does, how it's constructed and what it means in the real world.
If you've got decent equipment and a decent signal there's no reason for it to be any worse than using an ethernet cable as your transport medium (not noticeably anyway). And if you're using Xbox Live you'll still be using the same internet connection, so if you've got a decent wireless setup your internet connection (or indeed the ISP) will still be the slowest point in the equation.
On my wireless network at home, I can do "ping -t" from my laptop to my wireless AP and get the echo response back in < 5ms constantly.

So in answer to the OP, get yourself a Cisco Aironet 1200 series AP and enable bridging on it - works a treat and I'm willing to bet my left testicle you can't find another AP for sale with a better signal strength.

I think i prefer a full duplex connection over half duplex any day of the week wireless should always be a last resort.

 

[Sym0n]

I love the condescending experts on CS PMSL.

 

[The Boosh!]

I love the condescending experts on CS PMSL.

Where's mike?

 

[Sym0n]

Where's mike?

Thankfully banned. :clown:

 

[AK]

Thankfully banned. :clown:

Lol

 

[DMS]

I think i prefer a full duplex connection over half duplex any day of the week wireless should always be a last resort.

I'm sorry but you aren't going to notice the difference playing Xbox Live. It's simply not intensive enough on bandwidth to matter. A decent wireless setup is more than adequate for playing XBL and streaming video (even HD because the data is biased largely in one direction)

 

[Longy]

I'm sorry but you aren't going to notice the difference playing Xbox Live. It's simply not intensive enough on bandwidth to matter. A decent wireless setup is more than adequate for playing XBL and streaming video (even HD because the data is biased largely in one direction)

Yeah i agree it's adequate but not the best method which is the point I make - wireless has it's pitfalls as you know. As you say, you need a good wireless setup in the first place but even then is sustainable to interference.

 

[Robb]

Didnt want to pay for the offical adaptor myself! I've just bridged my wireless connection from my computer to the Ethernet port to Xbox. Works a treat but the downfall is i have to have my computer turned on as well...

Just realised you're computer might not be in the same place as you're computer

 

[Magic Johnson]

You wireless losers. Lasers is where it's at. :approve:

 

[Cookie]

Didnt want to pay for the offical adaptor myself! I've just bridged my wireless connection from my computer to the Ethernet port to Xbox. Works a treat but the downfall is i have to have my computer turned on as well...

Just realised you're computer might not be in the same place as you're computer

Completely different rooms

 

[Mells]

cables FTW. Wireless sucks ball

+f**king 1

I was wiress since 2003, went back to a proper wired home network and the difference in speed is great.

 

[Macester]

I think i prefer a full duplex connection over half duplex any day of the week wireless should always be a last resort.

get wireless n, full duplex all the way baby!!

 

[Longy]

get wireless n, full duplex all the way baby!!

Tecnically it's not - it's MIMO similar principal though.

 

[Macester]

only because it has more antenna's, still, sends/receives data simultaneously, its the only good wired alternative imo!

 

[Millsy]

using 2 V1.0 bt homehubs with WDS to bridge my xbox to the outside world. works a treat tbh. was worried it would be really laggy but its fine.

homehubs are cheap as chips on fleabay too