airport express and xbox 360

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airport express and xbox 360

I have a time capsule and a 2 wire modem that is a router that sends the signal to TC. My question is, if I get AE .11N spec, can I hook my 360 into the Ethernet and it work on the AE. The antenna on the xbox is garbage as is most MS product and as is doesn't work with TC. Thoughts?

Windows Vista, Time capsule 500GB and MacBook pro on the way.

Posted on Mar 17, 2008 8:46 AM

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Tesserax

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Mar 17, 2008 9:32 AM in response to BarrettF77

Hello BarrettF77. It is a bit too early to tell as Apple just released the 802.11n version of the AirPort Express Base Station (AXn). If it is anything like the earlier version, then you would need to configure it as a relay/remote base station in a WDS with the TC in order to enable it's Ethernet port to connect the Xbox 360 into.

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Mar 17, 2008 9:45 AM in response to BarrettF77

By configuring it this way would it still also allow the use of the xbox by Ethernet, the stereo, and act as a repeater for the time capsule. Sorry as I am learning the right way of doing technology right now, aka the apple way.

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Tesserax

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Mar 17, 2008 9:55 AM in response to BarrettF77

By configuring it this way would it still also allow the use of the xbox by Ethernet, the stereo, and act as a repeater for the time capsule.

Yes.

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Mar 19, 2008 3:10 PM in response to BarrettF77

I purchased an AE.11n for this purpose and I couldn't get it to work. When I connected to LIVE I get a MTU failure.

Previously I had an AE.11g and this set-up worked fine. Not sure what the problem is outside of using N instead of G. I'm hoping todays update might fix the issue.

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divxz

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Apr 26, 2008 6:42 PM in response to Skullkraken

I'm in a similar config. Time Capsule, AX.11n, and an original Xbox.

It wont' connect to Live when the Xbox is connected to the Airport Express via a switch attached to the ethernet port. It gets an IP address, but for some reason it can't connect to the Xbox Live service. I connected a MacBook via ethernet to the same switch at the same time and it does work.

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