Meteor dongle w/ Xbox

Slugs

Hey guys,
Looking for someone who has had experience using the meteor dongle on the xbox. I'm living in accom with a firewalled interwebz, so in order to play on xbl, I had to set up an ad-hoc wireless network using my laptop as the router. While this is sufficient to connect to live, the connection doesn't maintain, frequently dcing and it's a pretty dire connection when it does connect. I'm wondering if I buy a meteor dongle, will it still be possible for me to set up the ad-hoc using the dongle with my laptop, or will the dongle go straight into the xbox and work Just fine.

Also has anyone any idea what the speeds are like on it and is xbl playable?

Cheers!

theteal

you'd be going ad hoc again. dongle goes into laptop, not xbox - can't install drivers on the xbox. get yourself a cheap crossover cable to link the laptop to xbox just to ensure your getting the bet out of such a setup

-=al=-

yep works alrite, done it a few times myself all depends on location and signal but should be ok really

but yeah, dongle > laptop > xbox

Slugs

By crossover cable, are you refering to an ethernet cable, or a particular cable type suited for this type of connection?

Thanks for the help so far lads!

DrGreenthumb

i'm assuming they mean ethernet cable,

connect ethernet wire from laptop to xbox, on your laptop go to control panel then "Network and Sharing Center" then click on the "change adapter settings", you should see your wireless meteor device and a local network, you highlight the two right click and go to bridge connections,

i've tried this before using a o2 dongle and it wouldn't let me bridge them, so i'm not sure if the meteor one will work

Slugs

did it give a reason for not letting you bridge?

DrGreenthumb

can't really remember it was so long ago, if memory serves correctly the o2 was seen as a dial up device and would not alllow me to bridge the connection to the xbox

Slugs

Got it working. What you have to do is enable shared connection on the dongle connection. Got it working perfectly Very happy. Thanks everyone!

-=al=-

yyeah gotta enable the shared connection then it should work when u hook it in with auto settings

bada bing

Slugs

Was working for a while, back with further issues. Getting the following Error status report

W: 0000 - 000B
X: 4000 - 1001
Y: 0000 - 0000
Z: 0000 - 0000
ID: 0001 - 0003

Anyone any experience with this error?

EDIT: Now getting the following error:

W: 0000 - 000B
X: 0600 - F001
Y: 0000 - 0000
Z: 0000 - 0000
ID: 0004 - 0000