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
pre-modified photo]
posted November 3rd 2009 7:16AM
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.