[X4U] Airport Express, old router & Xbox?

[David Ledger]

At 16:13 -0500 8/2/10, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Not sure where to ask this question but I thought this was a good 
>place to start.
>
>My son has been asking me to get him the wireless transmitter for 
>his Xbox 360 so that he can access Xbox Live. His Xbox is in the 
>basement where there's no wired internet available.
>
>I recently replaced my old 802.11b wireless router with an Airport 
>Express. Can I hook the old router up to the Xbox and have it 
>communicate wirelessly with the Airport Express which is in turn 
>connected to my cable modem? I remember people on this list saying 
>how they had multiple Airport Expresses to extend their range. This 
>got me thinking that perhaps I can plug the old router into the Xbox 
>and save myself the $100 or so for the wireless transmitter.
>
>Can this be done? Is there anything I need to do to the old router 
>first for this to work?

Depends if the router manufacturer allows you to set it up. Any 
domestic product is a cut-down version of what it _could_ be. I don't 
see any way to get my Netgear router to do that. Some may.

I have a Belkin wireless to 4-port-wired 'wireless adaptor' that I 
use with a IP phone so that I can move the combination around. 
(Hardly a wireless IP phone as it needs two mains leads). I have set 
it up so that it appears as a wireless slave to the phone, offering 
the phone's MAC address. I only use the one wired port needed.

David


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