Xbox 360 Live help

[Brett1038]

Can anyone tell me EXACTLY what i need to get XBox360 up and running?

i have a motorola cable modem but it does not have wireless capability and my room is on the second floor with the computer on the first floor

can i get a second cable modem to put in my room and just hook that modem up to my XBox360?

i hope this makes sense, im kinda stoned

[deadturtle]

hey man you need to get a wireless router. then you need to get the wireless adapter for the 360, then your set.

[bluntblaze]

i can't really help because iv got a ps3 so i dont know much about 360 but i know you dont need wireless :thumbsup:

[slipknotpsycho]

i'd highly suggest not going wireless.... too unstable/unreliable.

[bluntblaze]

i'd highly suggest not going wireless.... too unstable/unreliable.

what d'you mean?., ive got my ps3 on wireless and never had any problems

[venus_night]

what d'you mean?., ive got my ps3 on wireless and never had any problems

wireless isn't as reliable as a wired connection. there's all kinds of interference with wireless that simply doesn't exist with a wired connection. for example at my house, we set up a wireless router about 2 years ago and it worked great, but now that it's caught on we always get the networks from our neighbors which somehow blocks out our own wireless network. i'm not that much of techie so i don't know why that is, but i know that's a problem that i personally have had with wireless.

[420marijuana420]

if you have two modems you will pay double you're cable bill and it will be like you have to pay two internets. Also idk if you have a router and just made a mistake or if you only have a modem but modems don't have wireless capabilities routers do. You'll have to get a router, hook that up to the modem, and then run a wire from the router to your xbox 360. Wireless is unstable

To the poster above, what kind of router do you have? You can block your neighbors from using your connection by putting a password on your router. Which I would highly suggest because your neighbors could be using your connection for illegal activities and/or be seeing the logs of all websites you go to very easily. ( you can also see all the ones they go to)

[bluntblaze]

yeh my routers got a password ... not because they could do something illegal but because nobody's getting a free ride from me

[venus_night]

i don't know what kind of router or how it's setup now, my stepdad did it/runs it, but no one uses it anymore anyway. all of the computers in the house are wired and i only live here a couple of months of the year anyway, so no worries :)

[slipknotpsycho]

what d'you mean?., ive got my ps3 on wireless and never had any problems

then you're extremely lucky...the PSN forum is flooded with people having problems with wireless modems/routers... i'd imagine the 360 forums are probably flooded with the same...