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Posted by snakebit95 (Member # 8871) on :
 
Ok I just scored a Modern Warfare edition 360 for X mas. I got AT&T coming out this week to set up my wireless DSL in my comp room. My question is how do I get the signal to my entertainment center. I want to hook up not only my X box but also my Blue-ray player and my Direct TV box. I'm not looking on spending a lot of money either. Need "best bang for the buck" AT&T told me that their modem has 4 outputs. Am I better of hooking up the modem right in my entertainment center? The only problem is the closest phone jack is in the kitchen approx 15 feet away.

Thanks

[ January 03, 2010, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: snakebit95 ]
 

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Posted by essasin (Member # 4741) on :
 
Hardwire it. Buy some cat5 cables and plug each device to the at&t modem. It's the cheapest and most reliable, but you have to hide the wires.

You can either make the cables yourself or go to monoprice.com where the cat5e cable is like 5 bucks for 20ft each. Buy 3 of them and you are good to go.
 

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Posted by N8 (Member # 6048) on :
 
Seems like there are 2 questions here.

1 being hooking your 360 to your components

2 being hooking your 360 to the internet or wireless.

For number 1. Just hook your hdmi cable from your 360 to your TV, then hook your TV (output) to your entertainment receiver (input), normally to something like Aux 1 or something using RCA or digital or what ever connection you have available.

For number 2. I would go grab a Xbox 360 wireless adapter and a wireless router (unless AT&T is supplying you with a router). Setup WEP or MAC Address filtering go into the 360 network settings and use the settings you use to setup router. I wouldnt do hard wire if your 360 is far from your router.
 

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Posted by asskickn88 (Member # 4957) on :
 
The bad part is the wireless adapter for the 360 is expensive. Since you have so many things to connect I'd run a hard wire over, put in the router and plug everything directly into it. I've got my wireless router right on top of one of my speakers, all the components, mycomputer, PS3, Xbox 360 and DirecTV DVR plugged directly in and all the other stuff in my house is running on WIFI.
 

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Posted by essasin (Member # 4741) on :
 
Cheapest place I've seen that wireless adapter was 50 bucks and that was YMMV deal at wal mart. At 20 feet it's short enough that the integrity is not compromised. In my opinion I would never use a wireless connection for any kind of gaming but it does work.

[ January 04, 2010, 08:14 PM: Message edited by: essasin ]
 

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Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
I've got a cat6 run to my entertainment center with a 5 port gigabit switch for all my goodies

I tried a wireless bridge setup, which basically linked my entertainment center with my equipment closet that houses my router and server stuff, it was flaky as hell especially on xbox live. Speed wasn't an issue, but if the phone rang or somebody used the microwave, it was drop packats like crazy and everything would lag or crap out.

took me like an hour to run the ethernet cable, and it's all hidden around the baseboards, I had to run about 100'
 

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Posted by snakebit95 (Member # 8871) on :
 
Nice, thanks everybody for your input. I just picked up a 5 port router and gonna run a cat5 to it. Can't wait to get online and start playing MW2. This game is sick! Any of you guys play? If so give me your gamer tag. I haven't played online since counter strike.
 

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Posted by N8 (Member # 6048) on :
 
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Posted by N93EXCHP (Member # 8741) on :
 

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Originally posted by N8:
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