Xbox 360 And Airport Extreme 802.11n Get Along (sort of)
- February 26th, 2007
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It was only a matter of time before someone found a work around to the Xbox 360, Airport Extreme compatibility issue. If you were one of the many who have been affected by this strange but predictable phenomena then Phil from 25 Experts is here to help out. I can’t validate this fix, but maybe one of our gracious readers can tell us if it actually works or not.
In Airport Utility, Option-Click (or alt click on windows keybaords) the radio setting button to get the hidden choices, and select “b/g compatible”, NOT “n (b/g compatible), just straight b/g. That will limit each device to 54 mpbs, which is fine.
Next, Option-Click your encryption setting button and select “WPA Personal.” Go into the Internet:DHCP settings (I think) and reserve an IP address for your 360 based on it’s MAC settings to make sure it gets the same IP all the time. In the NAT options, select that IP as the “Default Host” so as to cause no issues with XBox Live functionality. Restart the Apple Extreme.
After it’s up and running, start your XBox 360, go to the last blade of the Dashboard and select your network settings - it should let you select your new WPA-encrypted network and you’re good to go.
Sam Edwards (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Works fine for me and took 5 mins - thanks for the tip! Nice one.
Jeff Sebolt
1 year ago
This works! After spending almost 7 hours of my time on the phone with tech support with xbox live and trying every imaginable configuration, with several obviously untrained call center employees in a far away land, (only two were able to direct me with some knowledge) I finally got a hold of someone in Apple care tech support and they led me to this post. 7 minutes later I was able to log in to xboxlive with no problems. Microsoft tech support should actually train the people on the equipment they are supporting. It seemed to me that most of them had never seen or used an xbox before and were simply reading steps out of manuals like robots. No reasoning skills whatsoever. Kudos to Neil Hopkins at Apple for going above and beyond to help me out and keep me from setting the xbox wireless adapter on fire out of frustration. Also, Thanks very much to the person who figured out this work around. Worked like a charm.
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Mexxup
1 year ago
test
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matt
1 year ago
ok so i understand how to do most things except for the radio setting buttons
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Joe
5 months ago
On a my PC I actually “Control-Click”ed… ALT-Click didn’t do it. Go under Airport, and select the Wireless tab. There’s a drop down called “Radio Mode” it has four options normally, but if you Control-Click it gives you eight.
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Will (Who am I?)
9 months ago
What is the MAC address that you are supposed to enter?
Joe
5 months ago
I found this by going to my Xbox 360 going to my network options section and looking under the MAC address section. It was right there.
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James (Who am I?)
3 months ago
So here is my thought. While I appreciate the great input isn’t the whole idea of buying or upgrading to the “N” network what we really want. We want the speed. Putting the network back to b/g only kinda defeats the purpose. Am I missing something?
Mike (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Works… very frustrating that I love all my Apple stuff and this kinda crap happens. Thanks for the fix, as mentioned, takes 2 seconds and had everything up and running!
Sucks that I can’t use an N router for now, but meh. As long as I can rape people on Call of Duty 4 still, I’m good. :)