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 Garbage!! August 21, 2007
ESVK (Atlanta, GA)
10 out of 21 found this review helpful
I am not sure that I have ever given an item 1 star, but I won't forget this one anytime soon. Truthfully, I would have expected to pay about $20 for the item if it didn't have the Xbox branding on it (and if it worked). The range is absolutely abissmal. I have several wireless devices that have no problem getting an excellent signal in different areas of my house but this thing would not budge from a weak signal no matter how much I played with the direction of the antenna. I would highly suggest that you consider a powerline adapter as an alternative to this. You'll get a lot more for your money.
Soddingly Worthless December 2, 2005
Gavin Dobbs (Clarkston, Washington United States)
9 out of 38 found this review helpful
WARNING
Please be advised before you buy this system that it will only work with two walls of distance between the user and the wireless router.
And mind you... these have to be very thin walls indeed. We're talking a little bit of frame, siding, and plaster at the very most. If you expect to be able to receive a signal... AT ALL from a distance of more than two rooms... or two rooms which have metal heating tubes in them... you will be sorely disapointed and disgusted at the fact of spending over $100 dollars on a peice of equipment which does not work.
there is an AFTERMARKET product for 50 dollars less! January 17, 2007
S. Hanna
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Belkin brand wireless G gaming adapter! I went to walmart to get the Xbox brand wireless adapter and they were sold out. I was about to go to Best buy and saw this on the shelf. Its in a red and silver/grey box and works for the 360, Wii, PS2 and PS3! hooks right up to the USB ports and I was online and wireless 5 minutes after getting home. Its bigger than the Xbox brand, but you save $50, which is almost a new game. I haven't had any problems and its compatible with tons of wireless routers.
 Get the Most from Your Wireless Adapter April 23, 2007
Zeevious (Upstate NY)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
A lot of people don't seem to understand this, and aren't setup correctly to get the most out of their xbox360 wireless adapter. Yes, it supports 802.11 a, b, and g. But the important part is that it supports DUAL MODE (i.e. bonded) A and G. That means that if you have a dual-mode a/g wireless access point, you are using 2 wireless bands, the 2.4GHz band (used by B and G), AND the 5GHz band (used by A). B and G both suffer lots of interference from microwave ovens, bluetooth, and lots of other things. A however does not suffer from such interference. A's theoretical rate is 54Mbps as is G's. In reality in a best case you might get 26ish mbps for each band. A decent HD video stream can take a steady 20mbps (assuming WMV or AVC/H.264/MPEG-4Part2, etc) or half that for MPEG-2. Dual band A/G allows the wireless network to bond the effective 26ish Mbps in each band for an actual realistic 50+Mbps assuming best case, and half this band isn't subject to local interference. If you are using a plain old 802.11g router and want to more than double your performance, get a dual-band a/g instead. Another nice part about the A channel is that not a lot of people use it, so you aren't probably competing w/ other local access points.
Oh... BTW... If you are running 802.11g and you have even a single 802.11b device on your network, your whole network will suffer greatly, so get rid of it. 802.11b is obsolete and will bring your whole network speed down.
Also, if you are using Windows Media Center and you have Windows Vista on the PC, that version of Media Center has a very simple Network Performance Monitor that allows you to adjust your network in realtime, and it will tell you using a graph whether you reach acceptable levels for SD and HD video streaming.
Expensive but well worth it December 29, 2005
Wisconbadgers (NJ)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
My 360 is in my room. Our Router is in our basement, so the signal has to travel 100ft and through 2 floors. The signal comes in almost 100%, much better than even the one for my computer. Amazing, but too overpriced. Microsoft is trying to make money on the loss producing the 360's. I read in a magazine it costs about $544 dollars to make the $400 xbox.
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