Having tried to connect my 360 via ethernet to my wireless connection, through my Mac or my Windows laptop, and having no success, this provided the only feasible solution.
Unfortunately, unlike the PS3, the Xbox 360 is not wireless-ready out of the box, and in order to make it so, you must invest a further £50+, which is quite a pain in the rear.
Unfortunately, it seems that, in making the console itself so cheap and appealing, Microsoft aim (as always) to make their money on the peripherals, which everybody needs for the full gaming experience.
Nevertheless, this does exactly what it says on the box (sorry to be cliched).
Plug-and-Play, as expected, you connect it to your console and through your dashboard, search for your wireless connection and, with your WEP key or security key at hand, you can instantly connect to your ...
Advantages: Wireless connectivity to Xbox live, Simply to setup Disadvantages: Ridiculously expensive, Doesn't come in black to match my Xbox 360 Elite
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 their infinite wisdom, decided not to include wireless connectivity as standard in the Xbox 360.
This leaves you with a couple of options should you wish to get your Xbox 360 online; an Ethernet cable from your router is probably the cheapest way, but in these wireless days I was really looking at reducing the cables stretching around my home, not add to them. There is another method ...
Advantages: Free, help to save electricity, easy to set up and use Disadvantages: None
up to energy Smart was that I would get an electricitymonitor free of charge from British Gas.
So I signed up online and the box containing my electricitymonitor arrived in the post a few days later.
So what was in the box?
The well packed box contained the following pieces of equipment:
A display unit which is mains powered and will receive the information via a wireless signal from the transmitter. The display unit has a screen with three buttons down the side of it ? the top one has an upward arrow on it, the middle one has a circle and the bottom one has a downward arrow.
A transmitter which is battery powered and will sit next to the electricity meter and send the signal to the display unit.
3 batteries for the transmitter
A sensor which clips around one of the main cables that enter the electricity meter to ...
