Network Adapters

XBOX 360 Wireless Adaptor - a must for serious gamers!

Advantages: Online gaming anywhere in the house
Disadvantages: Can lose connectivity without warning and expensive

If, like me, you have an Xbox 360, you will no doubt be aware of the dynamic and enjoyable facility available to you online, namely Xbox live. Xbox live is a place where you can download demos and game add-ons, chat to your friends, and stream movies and videos direct to your Xbox 360 in glorious high definition. But while the Nintendo Wii and the Sony Playstation 3 can go online straight from the box without any additional hardware, Microsoft, in ...
...standard in the Xbox 360. This product is great if you don't want to have cables trailing over the house to play XBOX Live, although the consistency of the connection can be a little patchy at times. The Live kit is simple to install, even for a novice like me, and the instructions are clear and concise. For serious gamers I recommend that you wire the XBOX up to the net the old fashioned way, as it is very frustrating whilst playing Call of Duty ...

lilostitch626 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter Network adapter

Music where you want it

Advantages: Moved music from your PC to you living room
Disadvantages: None

The Apple AirPort Express is an interesting bit of kit. It's a wireless device that you can use in one of three ways [or, in fact, in all three ways]. It can create a wireless network to allow your desktop, laptop, wii, PSP etc to talk to each other. It doesn't have a built in modem, so won't connect directly to the internet, but it does have an ethernet port and so could be used with a modem to connect the network to the internet. However, I think ...
...receiver. It has a USB port, into which you could plug a USB printer. This then makes you printer usable from any machine in the house, without having to have a dedicated network printer. The reason I got one, though, is because it comes with a piece of software called AirTunes. This allows it to receive music streamed from any desktop or laptop [Windows or Mac] which has iTunes on it. The Express has a music output port: this allows you to use ...

HuwBach 17.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Apple AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes

wired connection

Advantages: lets you connect via ethernet if not go wireless
Disadvantages: expensive

...and was looking on the nintendo internet site which explained to me all the extra stuff you can get if you connect you wii to the web. Theirs me thinking all i could do was play multiplayer games if i connected the wii to the web. as i do not have wireless in my house ( wii has wifi) i have to connect the wii via a LAN cable (usb to ethernet) this adaptor allows me to do this so i can connect to the web via cable. this is better as more reliable ...

NEILBIKERBOY 03.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Nintendo Wii LAN Adapter Network adapter

Belkin Wireless G - Cheap and cheerful wireless adapter

Advantages: Cheap, connects to routers of all types I have tried
Disadvantages: Breaks easily, driver problems in Vista

...internet problems, and chose the Belkin Wireless G USB adapter, as other members of my family use them and they are not expensive. Driver Download In order to get your Belkin wireless adapter to work, you must download the drviers from the internet. This is very annoying if you need to be wireless to connect easily. Other wireless internet USB (Vodaphone wireless broadband) I've used, have the driver software contained on the USB stick, which ...
...comes up is the official Belkin driver download site. It immediately takes you to a 3 step guide to installing the correct driver. First you have to read the FFC ID, which is in minuscule writing on the back of the device. Although, the website shows you exactly where to look, it is still hard to physically read the font. Once you have found out which version to pick, the driver is downloaded and finally installed. Connectivity I find that ...

potoroo99 21.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter Network adapter

Internet Wireless

Advantages: wireless
Disadvantages: sometimes low speed

At first I was skeptical, not that I could work ... At home my phone is fixed on the ground floor and the pc the first floor. I have to spend a lot of money to get internet (cable or wireless equipment expensive) when I informed about the possibility of exploiting or not the wireless modem on my phone, I said that enough to buy this stick from 40 € (30 £). To my pleasure I have verified that it works perfectly, I never drop the phone line, the installation ...
...PC automatically searches for the signal and if the modem is turned on it connects: done. No matter how many walls, doors closed, phones and TV are among us, I can navigate safely is incredible, really a good buy. The package includes a USB cable for direct it better and sticker to paste your computer no longer move them. The only thing is that when checking signal strength is low, and has never improved, so I do not know if he can get better ...

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Review of Netgear WG111 Wireless-G USB 2.0 Adapter