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XboxLive-gonna be great, we all want it, gonna all play each other blah blah blah. But I'm not 100% sure about all the technical mumbo jumbo, so I'd like to say, hold on a momnet.
I mentioned Broadband to my Dad a few weeks ago and told him the other night that Freeserve were doing a deal- £85 for all the equipment and FREE line registration worth £65. "good stuff" he said.
Now, this is where I'm getting worried. Looking through an old edition of Xgamer it had a broadband feature, and it came to USB modems, something which Freeserve broadband use. Xgamer only said "make sure the broadband modem you get has an ethernet port to be compatable with your Xbox." The picture beside this statement shows a green USB modem which i'm certain is the Freeserve one.
I go on to check btbroadband online, and it too uses ADSL with a usb modem. I check the broadband availablitity for my area and it says I might be able to get it. Hmmmm however NO MENTION OF AN ETHERNET PORT...
Please, someone who knows technical stuff inside out(Nomad, Tom ect) could you tell me if a USB modem can be made plug into an xbox, perhaps through buying an aditional connecter or something. Xbox Live doesn't nessicaraly require you to upgrade your line and get some dude into to know holes in your wall, does it? ADSL doesn't need that, right?
It would be a disaster if XboxLive could not be playable on through this.
I mentioned Broadband to my Dad a few weeks ago and told him the other night that Freeserve were doing a deal- £85 for all the equipment and FREE line registration worth £65. "good stuff" he said.
Now, this is where I'm getting worried. Looking through an old edition of Xgamer it had a broadband feature, and it came to USB modems, something which Freeserve broadband use. Xgamer only said "make sure the broadband modem you get has an ethernet port to be compatable with your Xbox." The picture beside this statement shows a green USB modem which i'm certain is the Freeserve one.
I go on to check btbroadband online, and it too uses ADSL with a usb modem. I check the broadband availablitity for my area and it says I might be able to get it. Hmmmm however NO MENTION OF AN ETHERNET PORT...
Please, someone who knows technical stuff inside out(Nomad, Tom ect) could you tell me if a USB modem can be made plug into an xbox, perhaps through buying an aditional connecter or something. Xbox Live doesn't nessicaraly require you to upgrade your line and get some dude into to know holes in your wall, does it? ADSL doesn't need that, right?
It would be a disaster if XboxLive could not be playable on through this.
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er-no wrote:
> My Xbox isn't far away from my PC so there shouldn't be a problem.
> Well... there bloody better not be, me thinks MIcrosoft haven't played
> it well enough. They really need to make it USB compatable, or some
> sort of adapter.
Just get a network card for your PC, and have the XBox plugged into the back. Xbox live will need broadband, but not all the bandwidth would be used. As they will have to consider that in America the lowest DSL is 384/128 while ours is 512/256. So I doubt that XBox live will use all the bandwith, so you could have your PC on downloading stuff, or looking at webpages while on the XBox.
> My Xbox isn't far away from my PC so there shouldn't be a problem.
> Well... there bloody better not be, me thinks MIcrosoft haven't played
> it well enough. They really need to make it USB compatable, or some
> sort of adapter.
Just get a network card for your PC, and have the XBox plugged into the back. Xbox live will need broadband, but not all the bandwidth would be used. As they will have to consider that in America the lowest DSL is 384/128 while ours is 512/256. So I doubt that XBox live will use all the bandwith, so you could have your PC on downloading stuff, or looking at webpages while on the XBox.
biscuitpower wrote:
> I'm totally new to this but hear me out,
> So if you have ADSL + a router you can connect multiple Xboxs with one
> broadband account and possibly to to Xbox live in theory presuming
> Xbox live doesn't have some kind of one account per household thing
> going on!
I think its one account per Xbox. So that would be £40 for each Xbox. Probably couldnt use more than one Xbox on the same connection, as it will probably have to log some sort of IP, like a PC.
> I'm totally new to this but hear me out,
> So if you have ADSL + a router you can connect multiple Xboxs with one
> broadband account and possibly to to Xbox live in theory presuming
> Xbox live doesn't have some kind of one account per household thing
> going on!
I think its one account per Xbox. So that would be £40 for each Xbox. Probably couldnt use more than one Xbox on the same connection, as it will probably have to log some sort of IP, like a PC.
er-no wrote:
> I will get the details of it all on Saturday for you all. :)
Eh?
> I will get the details of it all on Saturday for you all. :)
Eh?
Strafex wrote:
> Have MS finalised the final tech details for Xbox live in Europe?
I will get the details of it all on Saturday for you all. :)
> Have MS finalised the final tech details for Xbox live in Europe?
I will get the details of it all on Saturday for you all. :)
Have MS finalised the final tech details for Xbox live in Europe?
My Xbox isn't far away from my PC so there shouldn't be a problem. Well... there bloody better not be, me thinks MIcrosoft haven't played it well enough. They really need to make it USB compatable, or some sort of adapter.
You could, although I can't see that being good for your bandwidth though...
Mantis wrote:
> If you can find online a USB modem which has an ethernet Out port,
> that means you don't need to use the PC. Problem solved. (?)
The thing is you cant get a USB modem with a Ethernet out. The USB is used to connect the modem to the PC, just like a Ethernet out would. So even if the USB modem had a Ethernet out you would still need a PC, as USB draws power from the PC.
On the Xbox site they have a modem attached to the wall socket and then another cable into the back of the XBox. If this modem was used on a PC you would attach it to the Network card and it would be powered by the mains. I've never seen this type of modem, but it probably exists somewhere here.
So it seems that most people who use XBox live with ADSL will have to use the XBox connected to there PC. Or be prepared to spend money on a router.
> If you can find online a USB modem which has an ethernet Out port,
> that means you don't need to use the PC. Problem solved. (?)
The thing is you cant get a USB modem with a Ethernet out. The USB is used to connect the modem to the PC, just like a Ethernet out would. So even if the USB modem had a Ethernet out you would still need a PC, as USB draws power from the PC.
On the Xbox site they have a modem attached to the wall socket and then another cable into the back of the XBox. If this modem was used on a PC you would attach it to the Network card and it would be powered by the mains. I've never seen this type of modem, but it probably exists somewhere here.
So it seems that most people who use XBox live with ADSL will have to use the XBox connected to there PC. Or be prepared to spend money on a router.
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