Firstly is it any good at this?

I've set my xbox up in my bedroom tv and hifi with the main objective of using it for music playback. The problem I'm now facing is that I forgot it didn't have wireless options and don't want to buy the adaptor because its stupidly expensive for what it is. Could I use an old wireless sky router directly plugged the xbox to stream the music directly off my laptop? Will the laptop beable to run off two networks at the same time?

I am pretty much useless when it comes to computers so any advice would be great!

 

I don't think the laptop will be able to be connected to two wireless networks at the same time unless it has two wireless cards in it, which is what I presume you mean when you ask if it can run off two networks at the same time.

I've got two wireless networks setup here and my machines can only be connected to one at any given time.

If you're talking about wired and wireless at the same time, that is certainly possible. All of the machines in my home office are connected via ethernet and wireless at the same time.

As for the sky router. I'm guessing you're wanting to configure it so that the 360 and laptop connect to a wireless network it's serving out? If so then I think it should work. I think you might need to ensure it's setup as a DHCP server so the clients (360 and laptop) can automatically pick up an address from it. you'd also want to ensure any other wireless routers you have aren't acting as DHCP servers as you could get a clash of addresses, plus you don't really want 2 DHCP servers running at the same time, as you'd have no way to tell the computer which server to automatically grab an address from (you could switch to manual addressing and set the address to one in the range of one of the DHCP servers)

You could always look on ebay to see if you can get the official adapter on the cheap.

 

Cheers for the post Markus, I'm just gonna play around with some settings today to see if i can get some sort system working.

I'm against paying for a wireless adaptor as I know this will be used very rarely if ever, its just an idea i had since i was bored.

 

How about using powerline ethernet adaptors?

Just plug the adaptors in and the internal house wiring acts as your network. After all, you probably power your laptop and 360 from the mains anyway.

 

I use the powerline ethernet adapters and have to say they are excellent. We run 2 PS3's and an Xbox through them and they are faultless.

On the subject of setting the Xbox up as a media centre - I've tried loads of times to do it but the Xbox never seems to connect to the PC. The PC can see the xbox and the process of setting up begins, but shortly after it just seems to give up!! Any ideas?? (I've got a netgear adsl router)

 

Use tversity instead of windows media centre

 

To stream wirelessly from / the xbox, you either need an ethernet bridge, or

a dedicated xbox wireless adaptor

Your router is basically just the distribution point in the network

what router are you using?


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