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Caveat emptor: it is, acutally, for a broadband service, dead easy.
What you have on the back of the Xbox is an ethernet socket. You need to plug this into your network, and if your network has internet access, it will work. The small print is saying "you somehow need to connect an ethernet socket to the internet".
If you have broadband, you can bung it direct into a cablemodem except you'll need to disconnect your PC. If you have ADSL, you need an ethernet modem, and you'll have to disconnect your pc...
or you just need a router. My ADSL comes through a router-modem combo. It's all rigged up, you just plug the Ethernet from the Xbox into the Router, put the CD in, and it all works. Like advertised.
(or: you can have two network cards in your PC, and use shudder internet connection sharing).
For what it is, it's dead easy. It's not a one-wire solution, but to be honest, I never thought broadband gaming WAS a one-stop solution that every single member of Joe Public would immediately understand. Setting more than one device up on broadband is always going to be a technical job, and to disguise it as anything otherwise is foolish.
(I still reckon on paper it's the best service out there. Now, to get a wireless bridge for my Xbox so I don't need to lug my Xbox and telly upstairs... Live is a project for my Xbox very shortly) |
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