Better late than never, we have a workaround fix for the compatibility issues we reported earlier this month regarding the new Airport Extreme Base Station and Xbox 360. Go to your Airport Utility, then Option-Click the radio setting button to reveal a drop down menu, from there, select "b/g compatible", not "n (b/g compatible)". That takes away the benefits of an 802.11 n network, but it gets the job done with 54 Mbps.
Next up is to Option-Click the button for encryption setting and select "WPA Personal". In DHCP settings under Internet, using the 360's MAC address, reserve an IP so it stays consistent. Finally, in your NAT options, select the 360's IP address as the "Default Host" to prevent any Live functionality issues, and restart your Extreme Base Station. Once you go to the network settings on your System blade, you should see your WPA-encrypted network show up. So your 360 and Airport Extreme can work together with encryption, although you kind of neuter the Base Station in the process.
[Via CrunchGear]
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2-26-2007 @ 5:10PM
MIkesOnline said...
You are not really neutering your Base Station in the process. It is just the nature of the beast. Until 80211 N has a finalized spec don't expect wireless adapters manufactured by other companies to support it because every company could implement their draft-n network differently. If both the wireless router and the wireless network adapter is manufactured by the same company then they should work at draft n speeds. For example, Airport Extreme Base Station users should be able to connect to any wireless network adaptors that Apple comes out with that support their version of draft-n because they should all implement the draft-n spec in the same way.
You have to do this or something similar with all draft-n wireless routers to make them work with the Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter. I have a Netgear WNR834B wireless router and I have to do something similar. It is very easy to switch back to draft-n when I want to. However, even using 80211 g and streaming 1080P videos to my xbox 360, it works great.
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2-26-2007 @ 5:17PM
supersalo said...
How are you streaming videos to your 360? Connect360?
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2-26-2007 @ 5:51PM
Irwin said...
@2
you don't really need anything extra to stream media to your 360. for example, you can use windows media player 10, and turn on media sharing.
you can also download software from Microsoft for just media sharing
all i had to do was go into my windows media player 10, Library -> Media Sharing.. -> turn it on and make sure it is allowing to share with the 360.
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2-26-2007 @ 5:53PM
Irwin said...
sorry, windows media player 11*
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2-26-2007 @ 6:06PM
Tim said...
Irwin - *Mac article.
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2-26-2007 @ 6:10PM
MIkesOnline said...
@2
In addtion to Windows Media Player 11, TVersity also works and will convert files on the fly to wmv format. WinAVI is also good program to convert files to wmv file types.
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2-26-2007 @ 7:26PM
Hurricanes711 [xbl] said...
YAY going out to buy one now
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2-27-2007 @ 4:57AM
GOD said...
FYI: Basically what you are doing is turning off the 802.11N feature of the Airport Extreme base station and telling it only to use 802.11B/G. So effectively you are making the purchase of this overpriced router even more pointless...
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