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#1 Kcdragon8116
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Ok, I am looking for a way to get my Xbox hooked up to the wireless network at my house. I do not want to pay the $100 for the Xbox wireless adapter (though amazon's $20 off looks good), so I am wondering if any of you 360 users are using agaming router that is cheaper than the official wireless adapter.

Any help you can give me is appreciated.

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#2 sizzlingdviper
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Ok, I am looking for a way to get my Xbox hooked up to the wireless network at my house. I do not want to pay the $100 for the Xbox wireless adapter (though amazon's $20 off looks good), so I am wondering if any of you 360 users are using agaming router that is cheaper than the official wireless adapter.

Any help you can give me is appreciated.

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Well a good router is a Linksys Wireless G WRT54GS,but if you are actually talking about a wireles adapter? Then i believe the only option is the official,expensive Microsoft one.That's why I've got mine wired to my Linksys,even though i had to run 20 feet of ethernet cable around our living room under the carpet to connect.

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#3 Kcdragon8116
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Well, I thought that there were some wireless gaming routers that would allow me to connect to my network from my room. Every one of the ones I saw were like $150, so I wanted to know if anyone had anything cheaper. Plus running a cord is out of the question, since I'm 2 floors above all of my network items.
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#4 ColdPhazon
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I guess its not an adapter, but I have my 360 hooked up to my laptop. Took a couple of hours to figure out, but thing is for me is that I don't have the marketplace and no spotlight, events, etc. on my 360. So I have to take it downstairs and hook it up to my real router and connect it in order to download stuff and get the marketplace and all that other stuff. That was the way to avoid getting the $100 router.
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#5 my_mortal_coil
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You need to get your terms straight. There are items called routers that ROUTE network data to and from different connected devices. This device is usually (in a home network) the first item connected to the internet source (i.e. the modem). There are wireless network ADAPTERS that allow a device to connect WIRELESSLY to a WIRELESS ROUTER. You can buy the Xbox 360 wireless adapter but if you don't have a wireless router it will do you no good. If the question was if there are cheaper versions there are: try to find the original Xbox's wireless adapter, it will work for the 360 and is cheap ... IF you can find one. Also there are some third party adapters availble, just check the web.