really hard to reply to the right person as I delete each mail as I read it
to avoid my inbox getting insanely cluttered.
I guess I should have stuck to forums. :-p Still, I joined this mainly to
keep in the loop of what is going on which I would never remember to check a
forum regular enough.
Alex.
On Thursday 22 May 2008 18:57:50 PRoPHeTiZeR wrote:
> When did I say wireless sucked?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xbox@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Xbox@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> Atkin Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:47 PM
> To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Xbox] Re: Connecting My Console To Xbox Live
>
> You were the one saying Wireless sucked.
> I was saying I can't tell the difference.
>
> Alex.
>
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:55:11 PRoPHeTiZeR wrote:
> > Wow, u must be a cyborg or something if you can notice a 2ms lag
> > difference
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xbox@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Xbox@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > Alex Atkin Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:54 PM
> > To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Xbox] Re: Connecting My Console To Xbox Live
> >
> > You just dig yourself deeper don't you.
> >
> > Closed minded would be to say Wireless can NEVER be considered useful for
> > gaming. However I, myself, have played UT2003 between two wired PCs and
> > my laptop on WiFi (802.11b I think it was back then) and there were no
> > noticable lag.
> >
> > Its very closed minded to say that you can ALWAYS notice 2ms of lag.
> >
> > Notice, I never said EVERYONE would have a perfect wireless experience.
> > But it happens there is very little interference for me. I get full 54G
> > across the road in a friends house and so long as I keep the laptop in
> > line of sight (granted tricky as I tend to use it on my lap) it works
> > brilliant. Granted I wouldn't game across there as a large van driving
> > between the buildings might drop the connection - but for web browsing
> > its fine and again the lag difference is around 2ms vs wired.
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 18:49:21 PRoPHeTiZeR wrote:
> > > I just want peeps to know that I put my router in my microwave, it
> > > multiplies my speeds by hundreds of times
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Xbox@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Xbox@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > > PSCG Cleveland
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:23 PM
> > > To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Xbox] Re: Connecting My Console To Xbox Live
> > >
> > > Translation: If you live with cows, you won't see a difference even
> > > though you
> > > will. If you live in a normal environment with other humans jamming up
> > > the bandwidth using wireles everything, not to mention man-made
> > > interference from
> > > a wide variety of things... you will notice a difference without
> > > question.
> > >
> > > Thus concludes today's lesson from Dr. Imindaboonies on the lack of
> > > any difference between wired and wireless systems, contrary to
> > > virtually every know
> > > fact for the last 5-10 years alone. Talk bout closed-minded.
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Alex Atkin <yahoo@maewhitman.com>
wrote:
> > > > If you have a good wireless signal and nobody else using it, there's
> > > > no reason
> > > > you should notice a significant difference from wired.
> > > >
> > > > Its not like you are likely to have an Internet connection pumping
> > > > out 100Mbit
> > > > and 802.11g comfortably can max out broadband up to around 12Mbit,
> > > > potentially more. I would be shocked if Marketplace comfortably did
> > > > 12Mbit because reading around the web people constantly report it
> > >
> > > under-performing
> > >
> > > > on faster connections.
> > > >
> > > > Latency wise, again it depends on interference. If hardly anyone is
> > > > using 2.4Ghz frequencies in your area and your 360 is the only thing
> > > > using your wireless, then the latency is 1-2ms which shouldn't be
> > > > noticeable when broadband tends to add at least 10ms on top of that
> > > > anyway. That said, I have often wondered if the 360 pads themselves
> > > > are enough to slow down the wireless performance. It can't be optimal
> > > > having 2.4Ghz pumping out the front of the 360 and the back too.
> > > >
> > > > Alex.
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 14:46:06 PSCG Cleveland wrote:
> > > >> Uh there should be a bit of a substantial difference? The new 360
> > > >> Wireless is 802.11G - 54Mbps and the offmarket versions from like
> > > >> Linksys are as well but the older were the 802.11B - 11Mbps
> > > >> versions.
> > > >>
> > > >> Your home network should be running at least at 100Mbps connections
> > > >> around the joint? So the transfer times through your house should be
> > > >> at least reasonably noticable. If there's barely a visible
> > > >> difference, then your outside connection's got issues because it
> > > >> should be pumping a hot enough signal to give you that visible
> > > >> difference going wireless. Might want to run some speed tests and
> > > >> such on your Cable/DSL hookup and your network to see what the
> > > >> results are.
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:57 AM, higginsden <higginsden@yahoo.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > >> > I like the 360 wireless adapter, was truly a plug and play event -
> > > >> > but (here's the big BUT)... have noticed just a slight lag on
> > > >> > large multiplayer maps (e.g. BTB, etc) compared to wired. Also,
> > > >> > could be perception (never really measured it) but movies seem to
> > > >> > download slower from XBL on the wireless. Have never had an issue
> > > >> > with it other than those.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Re: connecting so easily - are you sure you're on your wireless
> > > >> > network or somebody else's? You might want to look over your
> > > >> > wireless router's MAC level authentication as a minimal form of
> > > >> > security rather than just leaving it wide open (changing the
> > > >> > default password is strongly advised too).
> > > >> >
> > > >> > --- In Xbox@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Lee Charles" <paynestalker@...>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > wrote:
> > > >> >> over the weekend i brought the wireless network adapter and i
> > > >> >> plug it
> > > >> >
> > > >> > in the
> > > >> >
> > > >> >> console and yet nothing has happen at all.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> when i check the network it's saying that it's disconneted so can
> > > >> >
> > > >> > someone
> > > >> >
> > > >> >> help me out at all on how to connected it.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> eric
> > > >
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