cheapest/easiest way to get 360 on campus wifi?

[kkcountry]

my brother lives across the street from campus, so he uses their wifi for his lappy and whatnot. he and his roomies just got a 360, how should they go about getting on live via their university's wifi?

edit - do they have to get the $100 adapter?

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do they have to get the $100 adapter?

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No, you can use any wireless hub, and then run an ethernet cable from the hub to the Xbox. It's more of a pain the ass, because you can't configure the hub from within the Xbox menus, but it's definitely doable. I think you can get a wireless hub for as low as $40. I don't know the exact steps involved because I just bought the adapter (because I'm lazy), but it's definitely possible.

[Low Key]

You're saying there's a hub that accepts incoming wireless signals that will send it thru an ethernet cable to a wired device? That's news to me. Please linky, I'd love to see that.

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Okay, I looked into this a bit more. It turns out that I was wrong - what you need a wireless bridge - not a hub. You can buy bridges for around $100, but at that point you might as well just buy the xbox wireless adapter.

However, the cheaper solution is to buy a router and then load your own firmware on it to make it act as a bridge. It seems like the preferred solution is to use DD-WRT, which can be loaded onto a fair number of commercial wireless routers, like the popular Linksys WRT54G, which amazon is currently selling for $50. There are probably cheaper routers that can be used, or better deals if you look hard enough. Apparently DD-WRT is really powerful and you can configure lots of stuff like quality-of-service, so you can prioritize traffic if you have a lot of people using your connection.

So it's a fair amount of work to get it working, but I think there are probably lots of web resources for this if you are reasonably tech savy.

[Freakin]

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Okay, I looked into this a bit more. It turns out that I was wrong - what you need a wireless bridge - not a hub. You can buy bridges for around $100, but at that point you might as well just buy the xbox wireless adapter.

However, the cheaper solution is to buy a router and then load your own firmware on it to make it act as a bridge. It seems like the preferred solution is to use DD-WRT, which can be loaded onto a fair number of commercial wireless routers, like the popular Linksys WRT54G, which amazon is currently selling for $50. There are probably cheaper routers that can be used, or better deals if you look hard enough. Apparently DD-WRT is really powerful and you can configure lots of stuff like quality-of-service, so you can prioritize traffic if you have a lot of people using your connection.

So it's a fair amount of work to get it working, but I think there are probably lots of web resources for this if you are reasonably tech savy.

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you can get used wrt54gs on craigslist/ebay for like $20-25. DD-WRT is the [censored].

[jessicaalbiel]

what I do is just connect the ethernet cable from the 360 to my laptop and bridge the connection, halo 3 on xbl works fine that way