Customer Reviews
xbox 360 wifi adapter - By: Robert R. Foss, 23 May 2010 
If you have (as I do) a Belkin N+ router, then only buy one of these if you are happy to get into the guts of the router & create virtual servers & open specific ports. If all this is double dutch to you, make sure you have a router approved by Microsoft for XBox Live. Great wifi adapter. Great router (Belkin N+). Shocking mix!
Service from seller was superb, thanks mate.
a excellent way to connect - By: Ms. A. M. Drage, 11 May 2010 I brought this item for my fiance for his xbox, he regulary uses & has not had any problems with the connection. This is an excellent way to connect with out the hassel of wires.
you can get crazy about it - By: P. Florent, 01 May 2010 It worked very fine & is worth the price, Xbox LIVE here I come !!
No probs - By: T. Carson, 13 Apr 2010 Arrived promptly & worked perfectly. Great purchase. Kepps my 15 year old of my back. Cheers
Bring Wireless Connectivity to the Xbox 360 - By: C. Buck, 25 Mar 2010 ===Introduction ===
It is hard to believe thatin this day & age where wifi internet connections are the norm, that the Xbox 360 console, does not ship with a builtin wireless network adapter. The Playstation 3 has this builtin & even the Wii manages it too, so why have Microsoft decided to omit it from the Xbox? In my opinion, the answer is simple, it is hard work to bridge a connection from your laptop & the majority of Xbox users will not have their consolein close proximity to their router. Therefore, the only other alternative is to buy the Microsoft Wireless network adapter. Microsoft have been cute here, there are plenty of wireless USB wifi internet dongles on the market, however, none of these will work with the Xbox, meaning the only choice you have is to purchase Microsoft's official adapter. I was a bit reluctant to buy this item as I felt I was being forced down a one way street by Microsoft but my daughter was getting fed up of me borrowing her laptop to bridge the connection each time I wanted to play online so I had no choice but to take the plunge.
===Installation ===
Installation of the adapter could not be simpler. With the Xbox turned off, plug the adapter into a spare USB socket & its job done, it really is that easy. The adapter clips nicely onto the back of the Xbox to prevent it from getting damaged. This literally was a 20 second job & is not too taxing for anyone with limited technical know-how. The final stage of the installation requires you to turn on the console, on doing this, the Xbox will know you now have the wireless adapter installed & take you through a series of screensin order to connect with your network. If you have a secure network, you will need to know the security key or passphrase at this stage. Once you have provided this information then the Xbox will attempt to connect to its Live servers to confirm a connection has been made. Although I was able to connect after going through this setup, my Xbox was still complaining about being able to get through fully. After some googling & reading of forums, I found out that I had to forward some ports from my router to the Xboxin order to make a full connection. Although the solution to this problem goes outside of the scope of this review, anyone can contact me if they are having a similar problem.
===Encryption modes ===
The Xbox wireless adapter supports the 2 main wireless encryption protocols, namely WEP & WPA. My wireless network was originally on WEP encryption but the Xbox adapter was struggling to get a decent signal so I changed to WPA & got an almost perfect signal although it is worth mentioning that the encryption protocol shouldn't normally make a difference to signal strength. You could of course, connect wirelessly with no encryption if your wireless network was set up this way, but I would advise against this as anyonein the vicinity could use your network.
===Stability ===
I have been really impressed with the stability & signal quality of my wireless adapterin the four months I have been using it. The connection has never dropped & lagging has been kept to a minimum. As well as playing online games, video streaming is also seemless & can normally be viewed without the need to constantly wait for the content to be buffered.
