Re: [SLUG] new machine

From: Eldo Varghese (poningru@ufl.edu)
Date: Sun May 11 2008 - 23:56:32 EDT


If you really really want one I can send you one or something ( I live in gville)
-Eldo

Eben King wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008, Daniel Nakov wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I just got an Xbox (not 360, and not for gaming, as a CD/mp3 player
>>> replacement). Wiring ethernet into my bedroom (where it will go)
>>> would be
>>> quite difficult, so it'll probably have to be wireless. Since it has
>>> no PCI
>>> (or other internal) slots and no USB, this means an external ethernet
>>> <->
>>> wifi adapter.
>>>
>>> So, can anyone recommend (or de-recommend) a manufacturer or style of
>>> adapter?
>
>> I had the same problem with my xbox 360. I did not feel like paying
>> anything
>> to be able to use wireless with my xbox and i happened to have a free
>> fonera
>> router on hand.
>> I installed DD-WRT on my fonera router and set it up as a client-bridge.
>> Then, I hooked up my xbox via ethernet to the fonera rounter and had the
>> router connect to my regular wireless network. I can use xbox live and
>> everything works fine.
>
> Sounds cool.
>
>> You can do that with any router - see if fonera still send free routers.
>
> Why did they give out free hardware?
>
>> If not, you can buy a cheap router, install DD-WRT on it and use at as
>> whatever you want.
>
> Is that cheaper and/or better (in some quantifiable way) than a
> single-purpose converter?
>

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