I talked to a tech guy through 1-800-4my-xbox and he said that best gaming router that he knew of for the 360 was the d-link dir 655. So I read up on the reviews from best buy and other sites and they seemed mixed. Some say they have had nothing but problems and others say they've had for a year + without any problems or drops. I'm asking my fellow forumers today if you have knowledge of a decent router in the 100-150 dollars range that's good for running a few Xbox 360's on?

I currently run a 4-5 year old linksys a&g wireless that was decent for a while but this past year its been dropping like crazy even with firmware update. So I guess its time to get another one.

Thanks

I have one.. I had to manually set up the router because the CD it came with got stuck on a step for some unknown reason.
Only oddness I see is the random dropping of my wired PC connection when someone is using alot of bandwidth via wifi which made AVG act wierd and lead me to remove that program.

Running it in WPA2 mode. Don't have an Xbox...

I wish it had the QoS options of the linksys it replaced though... I probably just need to read up the information though.

I would love help with this as well. Apparently my wireless cannot handle my xbox and my computer at the same time. I get disconnected all the [censored] time! It's incredibly annoying.

I'm using a Cisco Linksys E2500. Just bought it a month ago. Works amazingly, no problems at all. Extremely low latency, even when others are using the network also.

Was playing Reach while my dad was streaming Netflix. Didn't hiccup at all.

I use a E3000 as my main router with a E2000 as a bridge. Works very well for my needs (mainly streaming HD videos over netflix and from the Media Server on the wired side of the network.

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I use a Wireless Modem as I have AT&T DSL which has those. I find that Linksys routers are easy to use, but can have problems with dropping connections for unknown reasons, Belkin is an all around no-no. (impossible to set up! :banghead: ) Netgear seems to work fine, if not great, but they use cheap parts in the routers, lowering their life span. D-link is EXPENSIVE! it is very limited on what you can do with it, and can be a real pain, but I hear good reviews all the time about them.

Before you run off purchasing new routers, make sure you've got it set up right. For one, make sure its not near anything electrical, that interference could cut your signal off randomly. Set it out in the open if possible. I've never had any problems with my wireless, no matter if I was at my house or a friends, as long as it was setup correctly.

Personally I've used a linksys wrt54g with dd-wrt on it for years with no connection issues.

I use my sisters laptop, works fine

You use your sisters laptop as a router for your 360?

The best router for the 360 is pretty much any old router that supports QoS and has fast ethernet.

wireless will never beat ethernet when it comes to quality, no matter how much it tries.

why not?

Definitely. Wireless is great for portable devices, but for everything else wires rule. Wifi is not very good for gaming, media streaming, etc.

Just a few weeks ago I was being "lazy" and decided to transfer a few GB in files over wifi. Got told it would take me like 1.5 hours IIRC. Got pissed, plug in ethernet and that dropped down to 9 minutes.

And the gap only gets wider as you move up standards rungs. Comparing 802.11n with gigabit ethernet is crazy. The biggest problem for gaming and streaming video with wifi is that it's inconsistent, though. It might seem fine for a while, but eventually you'll get dropouts...that's assuming that it can keep up at all.

Or adding devices. 4 devices all connected in your standard router will all get equal access on ethernet. On wireless-g (since wireless-n did do a little bit to fix this) you get you get 1/4th the speed if even just two devices are communicating at the same time (cut in half for each devices, and then each device cuts in half again for up/down). It can easily become a nightmare if every one of your wireless devices are communicating on the same WAP if everything starts communicating at the same time.