Today's the day that a
GameStop listing had Microsoft's Xbox 360
Wireless N Networking Adapter going live for retail. So how's that $100 worth of throughput treating you? What's that... it's not actually for sale? Indeed: the entry has been pulled from GameStop and a Google Shopping search reveals only a single Buy.com entry showing the adapter as "temporarily sold out." That's wishful thinking. While Microsoft has confirmed the adapters' existence they have not officially announced a street date or price. We'll let you know if that changes.
Update:
Amazon.fr lists the adapter for 80 euro bucks with an expected November 20th ship. We'll see.
[Thanks Adam and Tim Ashman for
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posted Nov 3rd 2009 7:16AM
I simply love to hate micro$oft...
I simply love to hate people that love to hate Microsoft.
:3
you hate microsoft because of an adapter?
wow
Substituting the 'S' of Microsoft with the dollar symbol '$' is a little out-moded.
If you must express your irrational hatred of a multinational corporation, could you find a way that doesn't use a tired cliché?
a $100 Adapter??? yea....I hate them for ALL overpriced accessories....
I got my adapter of eBay for $50 6 months ago.....refused to pay more than that for it...should be built in
If people will buy the proprietary formats, companies will sell them and make a killing.
Sony:
Memory Stick, UMD, etc.
Microsoft:
Xbox 360 HDD, wifi, etc.
Since the PS3 came out after the Xbox 360, it needed to catchup and has less proprietary formats (If any). But my guess if it was the other way around, the PS3 would be filled with proprietary formats and the Xbox 360 wouldn't.
"Since the PS3 came out after the Xbox 360, it needed to catchup and has less proprietary formats (If any). But my guess if it was the other way around, the PS3 would be filled with proprietary formats and the Xbox 360 wouldn't."
What?..........
@complex: I was thinking the same thing...
@Erb: PS3:blu-ray, hello. I like how you no everyone, conveniently leaves out the Big N, when they want to bash company A or B about proprietary formats, looking at their past history and the Wii, no propriety game media, memory card its just an outright bastard.
Just get a damn $3 cable?
my 360 is in the bedroom....which is 25+ feet away from the router in the Living room.....so ummmmmmm $3 25' CAT6 ethernet cable? where they do that at?
@ Chris D.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CAT5e-CAT5-CAT-5-5e-25-ft-Ethernet-Network-Cable-BLUE_W0QQitemZ380159177615QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item588340b38f#ht_1418wt_1161
rofl
@ Chris
Tether it to a laptop that gets wireless if you have one. That's what I did when I had a 360, worked perfectly.
Or at Monoprice.com
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020810&p_id=2151&seq=1&format=2
In all fairness folks, not everyone wants to have an ethernet cable running through their house. If someone wants wireless, the cable is hardly an on point response. I hope this adapter vanished while MS reconsiders the price points. They really need to drop the price of these things.
So you have a 25' cable snaking through your hallway or do you live in your parents basement?
don't know alot about the 360, but wouldn't a wireless bridge work? I use an airport express as a wireless bridge to my slingplayer which doesn't have wifi.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127256
and it's cheaper!
Some of us don't have the ability to tunnel cables through walls to get from the router downstairs to the room upstairs - it's not a realistic solution for a lot of people.
That being said, the N adapter is a stupid idea - how many people have internet connections faster than 54Mbps? Or even a quarter of that? It's completely unnecessary. What MS really needs to do is either build the damn thing into new 360s, or just drop it to $20, which is what every other G-adapter costs nowadays.
I have my house fully wired, but if I was going to get an N wireless adapter it wouldn't be for the speed per se (Although I am on a 50mb internet connection, god bless Virgin Media for that) it would be for the better range / distance and the fact it is on a different frequency than the 2.4ghz frequency which most people in my neighbourhood are still on.
My wireless N router (Belkin) is great for my wireless N enabled laptop (which is what I use in the attic as that's where my bedroom is located and my router is in the living room).
On another note, I have wires going from the living room all the way to the attic for my PS3 and Xbox 360 (I bought 2 x 30metre cables and just nailed along the floorboards)
That image gives Vapourware a new meaning. Its awesome.
"... and just like that..." *whoosh* "... it was gone."
Bit like Sky Player, perhaps they are both off in the same love-nest....
Got no problem with sky player, been working fine for me since launch
@Lareeth You are one of the lucky few, the rest of us are still waiting for it to appear. Plus there are no specific instructions as to where this sodding thing will be found in order to install it when/if it does eventually appear.
On Amazon.fr (france), it is stil there : http://www.amazon.fr/Wifi-Xbox-360-recepteur-HD/dp/B002NPCDH8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1257251971&sr=1-1 as a "HD receptor".
Does the 360 have a gigabit ethernet port on it?
no it doesnt
Why do you ask? Gigabit is pretty useless unless you're transferring lots of massive files over the network. Absolutelly no point for internet (the internet is the bottle-neck, as it is with the N adapter for that matter). There is not even much need for it for media center streaming (if you can stream 1080p video over the internet you can certainly do it over a 100 megabit ethernet connection). What else would you be using it for?
MASSIVE PORN!
$100?
This: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162026
+
This: www.dd-wrt.com
AND you'll have other ports for more devices...
+1 to the DDWRT. I did that this weekend - took all of an hour and that was because i missed a step (apparently setting your IP to 192.168.1.100 is essential). But now its in the living room, hooked up to my xbox and streaming vids.
although I used a Linksys WRT-54G for my purposes.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124136
How did you guys set up the client bridge for the WHR G300N? i was able to set it up as a repeater bridge and connect to it wirelessly but not via the ethernet port. strange thing is that when it is connected via ethernet port i can ping and connect to my 1st router but cant get on the internet. Any help would be much appreciated. Also what version of DD-WRT did you use?
360 fanboys, come out and plaaaaayyyyyaaaaaayyyyyyy. You mean to tell me that if I buy the "Elite" console for $300, this adapter is worth a third of the price of the system itself?
No, it's not worth it.
As an Elite owner myself, I would never buy this.
Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful.
How was I being a troll? You yourself agreed with my point in that it wasn't worth the price. That's all I was trying to say.
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It's saying that if you buy the Arcade model, this adapter costs HALF of the damn system.
And it's included in the Wii!
You'll have a hard time calling me an MS fanboy, but I bought my Elite back when they were *cough* more than $300. Guess what -- it's sitting right next to my cable box. I'm glad I didn't have to pay more for an included WiFi adapter that almost noone uses.
(ITIS) I can't stand Microsoft. I'm an apple user. But I will concede that I like a lot of 360 games. :D
All these `drama` over a Wi-Fi plug-in that costs maybe $5- in parts to MS (and $0- labor cost to have it built-in on the assembly line).
Yep....that is all that goes into making a product...just parts, no labor, no R&D, no contracts, no patents, no testing...
Can't you just use a regular USB Wireless-N dongle?
Newsflash people.... for-profit companies exist solely to make a profit...not to make us all happy. Now with that being said, $100 is a bit steep, and as a consumer I will exercise my right not to buy it. There are other options - wireless and wired.
It's probably only going to be available in the next Elite package like the 250GB HDD. It's all part of the plan. Why get people to buy add-ons when you can make them buy a whole new console? Brilliant!
What do you need N-wireless for. Anyone take a look at the ethernet cable that ships with the 360????? Its a 10-base cat5 cable, only has 4 wires. Is anyone for sure that the 360 could even make use of N speeds? I've never been very impressed with the download speeds to my 360. By the way +1 for 25' ethernet cables, thats what I'm rockin' and +1 for ddwrt, which I rock as well.
you have no idea what you are talking about.
Ummm.... 100mb ethernet really only uses 4x wires, gig-e uses all 8x, so it's in full spec and can run at the full 100mb rate. Copper is a very expensive metal and reducing the cables weight by half and lets say shaves $0.10 off the cost of a system, multiple that by 31million sold = $3.1 million dollars; just by giving you cable that will do 100mb, but not gig-e (since the xbox only has 100mb ethernet port anything faster would be of useless value).
FNG, feel free to correct me, does your CCNA cert speak louder than mine?
brsnow, surely you're aware that the N-spec is about more than speed right?
So to the people who are unhappy with Micro$oft and their price gouging for this adapter....I hear the complaining but what is the solution? Should the government control the pricing? Or should we still vote with our purchase decisions?
I loled at the picture.
Buy some cat5 cables, a switch and be done with it. Cost you much less than $100 for a wireless adapter and you get a much more reliable connection. Or hell for that matter buy a wireless bridge that will cost you about as much as this N adapter and wire up your whole entertainment center. The only thing I run wireless is my Wii because I didn't want to buy an adapter for wired connectivity and signal isn't an issue because I have a wireless AP in the same cabinet for using laptops in my living room. One 8 port gig switch for PS3, Xbox 360, Dish receiver box, Wireless AP, HTPC, and 2 spare lines for hooking up laptops when doing large transfers. If you are doing the connection back to your router over a wireless bridge or good ole copper its still a better option than buying a proprietary wireless adapter for 1 device. The Microsoft one really should not cost any more than $50, the same price any other USB wireless NIC would cost and the support cost should be virtual nothing because all you have to do is plug the damn thing in and configure it.
screw wireless N. where is my gigabit ethernet that would cost a whopping $1-$5 more than the 10/100 they use now?
cheap bastards.
$1-$5 more * number of 360's sold == $31million to $151million cost to Microsoft to give you really no value. (Aug 2009 31mill 360's sold)
How could you even use speeds higher than 100mb with the 360? Heck Blu-ray's max bitrate is 54mb/sec which fits well within the 100mb ethernet....
in that same respect, you could ask what is the point of having gigabit ethernet in a home environment at all? it'll be years before US internet connections will be able to take full advantage of 100BASE-T, much less gigabit. and the percentage of users that would ever stream enough data across a home network to take advantage of 1000BASE-T might be 5%. contrary to that, most PCs and laptops now come come with gigabit ethernet because that's becoming the standard and the cost difference is minimal in such large quantities. so in light of that, yes, i continue to ask where the heck is my gigabit ethernet on a 360. because tech dorks always want more.
on a similar note, considering that in March of this year the average internet speed for US customers was 3.9Mbps, you could include wireless N in this question as well. wireless transfer rates of +5Mpbs are more than sufficient for online gaming. any issues after that are tied to ping rate and the associated packet loss, which more than likely will not be an in-home issue. so i say if you're far enough away from your AP that wireless G isn't cutting it, you're in a big enough house that you should have cat5 running through the walls anyway.
I use a similar setup but with WHR-HP-G54 and dd-wrt connecting to AEBS (wanted to keep N on 5ghz only) and this sucker barely gets 6 Mbps and can hardly do 480p :(
Another reason why the PS3 rocks. Mo gadgets Mo money Mo problems. LOL.
I got 99 problems and my PS3 aint one. :D
You are a terrible rapper
in case nobody gets it, that's a imagery of Vaporware. Hah damn funny too.
I would just like to know who makes that kettle. I want it.
I want it too!! Okay, I know that it is made by Chantal and is the "Personal 3 cup" style...but I can only find it anywhere in red or black enamel. I really dig the chrome with gold accent...anyone able to find it?
http://www.chantal.com/personal-teakettle.html
Me too. That thing is bad.
Hell u can still order one at costco for $87. Hell it even has a Nov. 10 release date. here's the link
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11501393&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC|25429|25532|60313|49402&N=4020036&Mo=17&pos=2&No=2&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=49402&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&ec=BC-EC16442-Cat60313&topnav=
Brian... Ditto on the teapot man... who makes that? I could care less about a wireless xbox adapter.
I have gigabit ethernet wall jacks in almost every room of my house, cause I'm slick like that. Wifi is great for laptops and handhelds, but for stationary equipment like consoles or desktops, nothing beats good ole RJ-45, especially when transferring data between machines.
Why go Gigabit? A game system will *NEVER* utilize that kind of bandwidth.
..and for HD content, you don't need Gigabit to handle it.
That sure is a beautiful kettle! With my Tea season around the corner, I'd sure love that.
Can someone please explain to me why you need wireless-N on a game console? You're still going to be bandwith limited by your ISP. I don't know of any ISP that pushes a wireless-N home network to it's theoretical maximum speed and even if you were getting the theoretical maximum, which you won't because they are all shared connections, your actual speed would still fall far short of what even wireless-g can handle so you won't see faster online play or faster content downloads. I just retired a wireless-b router purely due to it's age and not because I was being bandwith restricted by it and had 3 computers and 2 game consoles connected to it.