How does it feel to pay a hundred smackers for a 360 Wireless Network Adapter, when the teensy little Wii comes with a free Mitsumi 802.11b/g wireless module, right out of the box? After absconding from the Amazon warehouse with my Red Gleaming Death Machine this year, I became slightly perturbed when I discovered I had to plop down an additional Benjamin to keep a mess of tangled wire out of my living room. The knowledge that these 360 adapters often provide lousy connections kinda pours lemon juice on the wound, doesn't it?
Good news has come to light for all you high rollers who threw out the cash for the 360 WiFi adapter. Those rapscallions over at Household Hacker claim you can boost your connection and reduce latency with a roll of tape, aluminum foil, and an empty chip bag. I know, right? Too good to be true? Stick your ear to the ground and you'll already hear whispers of cooler-than-thou techies claiming this trick is a fraud. Anyone have an adapter you're willing to test this trick on? Let us know how it works out for ya. Worst case scenario, it could cost you a wasted half hour and your pride. If it works, though ... you could be smoothly gliding through a pingless jungle paradise, popping the heads off of civilians in East Timor, executing mission commands and propping up the Suharto regime, flanking and rolling and jiving, or whatever the hell it is you kids do in your Tom Clancy games these days.
The most important issue here is: Why does a bag of chips drastically improve a cheap technology you're already turning a $70 profit off of, Microsoft? And secondly, is Angus MacGyver a gamer? Because this hack just smacks of his backyard, "Just Folks" ingenuity. I hear this trick works particularly well if your conscience is haunted by a fatal gun accident that killed one of your closest friends when you were a child.
It's presented almost as badly as a cheap 80's softcore porn movie, the music even sounds like its from that style of stuff, not to mention it looks worse than the Blue Peter Tracy Island!
Things like that work to boost wifi signal antennae all the time. I hear real aluminum foil works better than a chip bag. Instead of shelling out $100 for the wifi adapter for the 360, I bought a new wireless router for $50 and will be setting it up as a wireless client to my network. Take that, Microsoft.
you guys running ICS through your computer to supply your 360 with internet are probably the same fools that give XBL the lowest priority in Windows QOS stream so that everyone lags. Bungie has said this could prove a false positive (or true) for cheating. Direct connection for the win, wireless or wired.
Also, the 360 wifi adapter is well worth the money if you have a router that supports 802.11a and you stream media or have 2.4ghz junk in your home.
I've got so many cables that 100 dollars spent cant make a difference
so my router is near the tv and an extra cable doesn't hurt
this hack is useless starting with the useless expensive ugly dongle
I will say that I find getting the XBox360 online wirelessly has been a much less painful proposition than the DS or PSP. The PS3 actually wasn't so bad. $120 is a little steep though.
But I am going to just shell out for a nicer, more compatible router. I can't even get my darn iSight to work on this one.
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7:41 AM on 12.03.2007
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People actually bought that thing? Suckers. I'm just running mine through a PC.
I remember doing stuff like that on my bunny eared tv.
This does not require a spork.
Also, the 360 wifi adapter is well worth the money if you have a router that supports 802.11a and you stream media or have 2.4ghz junk in your home.
so my router is near the tv and an extra cable doesn't hurt
this hack is useless starting with the useless expensive ugly dongle
and you was like "Wachu talkin bout, I posted this yesterday!"
But I am going to just shell out for a nicer, more compatible router. I can't even get my darn iSight to work on this one.