Cheap Wireless For Your Xbox 360!

This project will help you change a cheap wireless router into a wireless receiver for your Xbox 360. The total cost of this project can be as low as twenty or thirty dollars, compared to the one hundred dollars Microsoft wants for their little wireless dongle.

* This tutorial assumes you already have a wireless router to send out wireless access to the Xbox 360.

Parts Needed:

* Xbox 360, any version
* Three Feet or more of Cat 5e Cable (Ethernet Cable)
* Wireless Router
* DD-WRT firmware

With the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3 having built in wireless access, it has always been shameful to tell others I know that the Xbox 360 doesn?t have the same feature. If the inexpensive Nintendo Wii can have it built in, why can?t the Xbox 360?

Well with a change of the firmware on a vast variety of wireless routers, we can enable a feature that much more expensive wireless routers have by default: becoming a wireless receiver.

Before we begin, an explanation of the DD-WRT firmware is needed.

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