Getting a 360 soon and I want to know how XBL works.

I never had XBL on my xbox1, and I will SOON be purchasing a 360 and so I need some help in understsanding how to set up xbox live. Ok well for my wii (which after Nintendo's Press Conference, I am selling to fund a 360 purchase) all I had to do was go to Wii Settings, tell it what type of connection I wanted (Wireless) and boom, it found my router connection and I was good to go.

Ok now I'm not very tech savvy so don't go nuts with some gizmo-filled response, but can someone just go through what I will need, and what I will need to get (aka buy)to fully enjoy XBL, because I am new to this.

Thanks!

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connecttolive/xbox360/livesetup/join.htm

Read everything

PS: You lucky bastard I wish I could have a Xbox 360 but no they have to be $400 and I only have $240.

PSS: I only knew home to find that link because I research the 360 even though I don't have one.

Edit: Don't just read everything on that page but under every dropdown things too.

and of course buy an xbox live gold subscription so you can play the games onlineMuffinPunk

also note that you get 1 month of live gold out of the box

Oh...Em...Geee Lol sounds like theres a lot of stuff I have to buy and look into. So confusing xD I'll take a look at the link.GanonBuRAP

You probably won't have a problem setting Live up... it can be all done with your xbox 360 without having to phone anyone... but if you want to cancel you Live account, you have to phone them which sucks since they rarely speak decent english... so just hope you are happy with it.

I wasn't using playing games online, so I cancelled the Gold account and got the free live account which you can still download demos, videos and stuff. All the full version arcade games, and other stuff requires you to pay money for whether you have a Gold or silver account which bugs me. they even charge you for download theme background packs...

Holly cripes I'm getting a lot of random stuff from you guys. Gold accounts? Silver accounts? Live accounts? What's the diff between the 3? And where do I make an account of any of the 3?

My 360 won't be close to my modem because the TV in my room is just a 27 inch standard ef TV. I wanna use the one in the living room 42 inch plasma screen. Anyway, what do I need to do to get connection to my 360.

[QUOTE="GanonBuRAP"]Oh...Em...Geee Lol sounds like theres a lot of stuff I have to buy and look into. So confusing xD I'll take a look at the link.limpbizkit818

Pro system, is that the 399.99 one? Also what's the diff between Gold, Silver and Live accounts?

Holly cripes I'm getting a lot of random stuff from you guys. Gold accounts? Silver accounts? Live accounts? What's the diff between the 3? And where do I make an account of any of the 3?

My 360 won't be close to my modem because the TV in my room is just a 27 inch standard ef TV. I wanna use the one in the living room 42 inch plasma screen. Anyway, what do I need to do to get connection to my 360.

GanonBuRAP

When you get your Xbox 360, and are connected to an Internet connection, you will see the on screen option to join Xbox Live.
There are two types of memberships. There is Silver which is the free membership, and there is Gold which is a paid membership.

So, you'll click on Join Xbox Live, and you'll have to fill out some fields with the help of the on-screen keyboard. One of the fields will allow you to choose your Xbox Live GamerTag. This is how you will be known in the Xbox Live World. Please note, that no credit card is required to sign up for Xbox Live, unless you choose to extend your membership later on.

After you go through creating your GamerTag you will be logged into Xbox Live. You will notice that you are currently at Gold Status. This is a complimentary limited offer from Microsoft, so you can try out the full Xbox Live Gold experience. After the trial period is up, then you are back at Silver status. Silver status allows you to download game demos, purchase games, videos, etc. from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Gold allows you all those features, plus the ability to play online against other people around the world.

There is an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter from Microsoft. It costs about $100. It's very easy to use.
It just snaps on the back of the console, plug in the USB cable right into the back of the console.
Power up the Xbox 360, and chances are that it will automaticly detect your current wireless network.

I hope this helps, and enjoy your Xbox 360! 8)

Holly cripes I'm getting a lot of random stuff from you guys. Gold accounts? Silver accounts? Live accounts? What's the diff between the 3? And where do I make an account of any of the 3?

My 360 won't be close to my modem because the TV in my room is just a 27 inch standard ef TV. I wanna use the one in the living room 42 inch plasma screen. Anyway, what do I need to do to get connection to my 360.

GanonBuRAP