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Broadband is finally going to be available in my town next week. I'm interested in possibly going LIVE with my X-Box but I pretty much know nothing about it.

So basically what I want to know is what kind of costs are involved and if there are any other cables/accessories I need to buy.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

How? The wireless is at your end, not theirs. They can't tell the difference, it is just a device sending data, that's all they know.

Ah 'wireless'.

My line would have cost extra to get that done with it so actually it evens out.

Its name is a few posts down. the Ebuyer Extra Value ADSL 4 port wireless router or something like that.

So post your gamertag in the thread then.

Kitt, I couldn't tell you what all the online games are (well I can for the Gamecube, there only is one and that's PSO) but if you get the latest link from the Xbox Live Definative Thread then you'll know what games the rest of us all have.

The sony forum has started building an online thread, but there are fewer players and fewer games for the PS2 online.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Mine does all the same for £65 :-p

Noooooooooooo! :D

What is it?
>
> Although I didn't get a sticker. At £55 for a sticker don't
> think I want one either!
>

:P


> So you all Lived up now.

Yep.

phew I'm glad it's not just me missing the website. Catchy title (it does exactly what it says in the title ^_^). When it comes back I'll order everything, I'm guessing you've shopped around and settled for this place. So I may aswell too. ^_^

Data transfer from PC to PC now that's something I can really use, I wonder what it's like for PC gamin. Ah yes cat5 crossover cable. I came across diagrams of the two types when I was searching for them. I imagine many people have made that mistake. The crossover cable is just like the xbox link up cable? Cool so you just switch it for the straight cable and connect the two up. That ought to save a few pounds from buying an official one. thanks and a special thanks to the incompetence of amazon.

I wish there was a definitive list of online games for the xbox and ps2 and on whether you can have more than one player online. It's very difficult to decide which games to get. Although we only have 1 game on each of the consoles, they had already bought presents before I decided to buy them their online packs so it's too late to get online games for christmas >_<

I'll be glad when this is all up and running.

Mine does all the same for £65 :-p

Although I didn't get a sticker. At £55 for a sticker don't think I want one either!

The adaptor thing I was talking about was to use wireless instead of having a cable from the Xbox to the router.

So you all Lived up now.

Notorious Biggles wrote:

>
> There is an adaptor that will let you use the Xbox wirelessly but it
> is almost £70 and I don't know what one it is. Best to stick to
> a cable for it and the PS2.

I got a Zoom X4 Router.

It's actually a router, modem, gateway and firewall which is nice. It allows you to directly connect the Xbox to the broadband line without the need for a PC (although you need to feed information into it with a PC to set up the X4 - after that you don't need the PC).

Set me back 120 quid but it was guaranteed to work with Xbox Live. It had a Xbox Live sticker and everything, A STICKER!!! :D

Ebuyer not working for me either just now, hence the switch to Dabs links. Just the cables.

Its catchyily titled Ebuyer Extra Value ADSL router 4 port with wireless. Or something like that. The link should still take you to it.

Then the cables. I bought mine off of Ebuyer as well, Belkin ones for under £2 each.

I actually prefer using a wire to the router from my PC, as it can give a transfer rate via a wire of 100Mbps. Via wireless the maximum is 11Mbps. If you are transferring lots of data between PCs then that makes a difference. For the internet it won't though, ADSL is only 512Kbps.

Anyway getting overly technical now. Just make sure that you get normal Cat5 cables NOT cross over ones.

However I also pointed out that if you ever want an Xbox system link cable to link two Xboxes, then buy a crossover cable.

Ah now everything is understood ^_^, thank you biggles. For some reason ebuyer won't work for me (and someone else I asked to check if it was working), so I'll have to wait :( do you know the name of the model just in case I have to search for it again? I think I'll use the ethernet card. Then that just leaves 3/4 cables (normal ethernet right?) for the pc and consoles and a card for my father's laptop, which he has an available slot for. Excellent, thanks again biggles you even found the card cheap on dabs too wai wai

You still need to put the cable that runs from the phone socket into the back of your ADSL modem into the back of the router.

You have a few options regarding cables. You can spend £10 or so on an ethernet card, that would allow you to connect a PC to the router by a cable. Or you can buy a wireless PCI card that would connect to the router wirelessly, from around £35. Both of those options require fitting something into the PC.

The third option for a desktop PC is to buy a USB adaptor that will let the PC connect to the router wirelessly. These can be gotten from around £22 upwards.

There is an adaptor that will let you use the Xbox wirelessly but it is almost £70 and I don't know what one it is. Best to stick to a cable for it and the PS2.

For your dads laptop you would want something like this:
http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/ networking/productView.htm?quicklinx=2MBC

and it is under £20. That would let him access the internet wirelessly from anywhere in the house. Although make sure he has a slot that he can put it in (nearly every laptop has a slot like that, but just check first).