My girlfriends son is getting an X Box 360 for Christmas. He wants the "live" feature (whatever that is). Last night she purchased the unit, 1 game and a year subscription to the live feature. Do we have to get anything else to hook this system to the internet? Her house is currently set up for wireless laptops. I am older and don't know anything about this stuff. When I was his age we climbed tree's, got BB guns from K Mart, baseball and football stuff and fishing poles and played outside all day and night and stole our parents liquor for fun.

My girlfriends son is getting an X Box 360 for Christmas. He wants the "live" feature (whatever that is). Last night she purchased the unit, 1 game and a year subscription to the live feature. Do we have to get anything else to hook this system to the internet? Her house is currently set up for wireless laptops. I am older and don't know anything about this stuff. When I was his age we climbed tree's, got BB guns from K Mart, baseball and football stuff and fishing poles and played outside all day and night and stole our parents liquor for fun.

 

 

Nope. An internet connection is all you need after this. I hope it's not a slow one, or you're going to be hearing from him.

Hopefully she already has a router, if not she will now need one. The 360 should come with a cat5 cable, but it is only like 25 feet long, so if she needs a longer one Staples has cat5 and cat6 cables.

There are two ways to connect to the internet. Buy a Xbox wireless network adapter and connect through your wireless network. Or if your wireless router can accept a wire connection as well, buy a network cable and plug it in. You may need to adjust some network connections on your PC, if I remember the Xbox will walk you through most of the set-up.

My girlfriends son is getting an X Box 360 for Christmas. He wants the "live" feature (whatever that is). Last night she purchased the unit, 1 game and a year subscription to the live feature. Do we have to get anything else to hook this system to the internet? Her house is currently set up for wireless laptops. I am older and don't know anything about this stuff. When I was his age we climbed tree's, got BB guns from K Mart, baseball and football stuff and fishing poles and played outside all day and night and stole our parents liquor for fun.

 

 

If you bought the Xbox 360 that just came then no you do not need anything else. The new ones come with WiFi built in. So all you will have to do is configure it for the wireless network like the laptops are.

Most newer xbox's come with wifi built in. If not its cat cable to the router. He will have to sign up for a gamer tag to play online.

 

Live is pretty awesome!

If the wifi is built in you're good to go. Does your GF have a HDTV? Hook it up to the TV via a HDMI cable - it'll be much better.

If the network is setup for wireless laptop then it is a safe assumption that there is a router. Setting up wireless if there is security on the router (as there should be) can be a pain the butt.

 

I'd have a network cable on hand for wired connection. The 25' cable it comes with should be fine until you either figure out the wifi and or get a longer cable. Monoprice.com is the place if you need to buy network cable.

as long as you got it brand new it should be the newer model with the wireless built into it.

 

 

if in need of any wires tho id give a +1000 to monoprice.com and the guy who mentioned it. that site never lets me down, no matter what cable or wire i need they have it dirt cheap.

if she went with the 4gb model (all I could find when I replaced mine a few weeks back), invest in the 250gb drive - that 4gb goes rather quickly

if she went with the 4gb model (all I could find when I replaced mine a few weeks back), invest in the 250gb drive - that 4gb goes rather quickly

What on earth are you downloading? lol. I havn't come close to filling my 20gb, then again all i do is play disk games. media is linked to my computer.

What on earth are you downloading? lol. I havn't come close to filling my 20gb, then again all i do is play disk games. media is linked to my computer.

 

Some games run a lot faster if the disk is loaded to the HD.

I'd like to thank everyone for their replies. It say's on the box it's Wifi equipped, and her house has a wireless router so I guess he's all set. Thanks again.

What on earth are you downloading? lol. I havn't come close to filling my 20gb, then again all i do is play disk games. media is linked to my computer.

 

free demo's take up a big chunk of space, plus add-ons for games.

free demo's take up a big chunk of space, plus add-ons for games.

 

 

yea DLC and updates can take a lot of space. a friend of mine got an xbox just to play black ops and bad company 2 with a bunch of us and he got the 4gb and just putting in BC2 it made him download a 1.64GB update.

I'm sure you both will enjoy the immediate and drastic expansion of the kid's curse-word repetoire as the foul-mouthed 12 year olds on Xbox Live corrupt his very soul.

 

I'm not bitter.