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by rafael0

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I have a 2 wire wireless router on my second floor and it works fine for everything (ppc, Laptops etc) I have an old x box downstairs on the main floor and would like to use another wireless router connected to the xbox to acces my existing network instead of harwireing it to the 2 wire.
1. is this possible?
2. what would the settings be for the router connected to the x box

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by oh smeg

You may be able to use a Wireless Extender to extend your Upstairs WiFi LAN downstairs.

All that is required to do this is a Power Point and a WiFi Signal you plug in the Extender and provided that you have a semi decent Signal it will act like a New WiFi Access Point and extend the Signal further.

Something like this is what you should be looking at.

http://www.eyo.com.au/prod_DM-DMA2100_proddesc_LinkSys_DMA2100_Media_Centre_Extender_DMA2100_WiFi-N_G_B.html

Col

by rafael0

wouldn't that mean that my x-box has to be wi-fi capable I am talking about the original x-box not the x-box 360 and my signal down stairs is great without an extender. what I need it to acces the wifi with the other router and hardwire the x-box to it, is that possible?

thanks again OH Smeg

by wizard-09

But you are going to need one hell of a big network cable for this, you could run a network cable from a free port on the wireless box and then run the network cable downstairs, but then again if the network cable to to big you will lost packet information on the line.

by oh smeg

In that case all you need is some sort of WiFi connection for the XBox here. You could use a router but depending on what you want/need to do here it may prevent File Sharing to the computers if that is necessary. Generally when you use a second WiFi Router like that you actually create a Sub Domain/Group that can communicate that side of the Router but not to the other side though they can connect to the Internet . If you want to share files with the other computer/s here you would have to turn off everything that makes a Router a Router and have a WiFi Extender. Just plug the WiFi device into the LAN Port on the X Box and run the Network Setup Wizard to create the Network connections.

Depends on what you want to achieve here actually. :)

Col

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