Best Wireless Router for Xbox 360?

I also had trouble getting my 360 to connect. We have a surfboard hooked to a linksys router, and there wasn’t anything interfering, but the signal just wouldn’t connect. In the end we just drilled a hole through the wall and ran an ethernet directly…

I use a D-link DIR-615 which is friggin’ awesome, but I’ve never tried it with a 360… But it should be fine, and has some excellent features.

The D-link product page is here and they do mention ‘Games Consoles’ in the blurb.

Thanks everyone…I seem to have fixed the problem with buying a new router with wired and wireless capabilities.

Linksys routers are “xbox live compatible” it says on the box. Well, pretty much every router is, but I use this and it’s great. Xbox also want’s you to use it.

I would have to recommend the D-Link DGL-4300. I use it for my Xbox 360 and it is compatible with Xbox live. The main reason i chose it was because of the Game Fuel. Game Fuel routes most of your internet speed into high bandwidth things such as games or movies, so it doesn’t give anyone just checking their e-mail the same internet speed at the person playing games. Although, its not 802.11n, 802.11n is meant for people trying to have a wireless connection over a large area(ie. a large commercial building) and g is perfectly fine for a for what most people need(ie. large house or 2).

Do not buy a Linksys router. If it ever gets unplugged or loses power you’ll have to reset it every time and its a pain to go though the install every few months.

@popo – and everyone else for that matter – The last fact about linksys routers is simply not true, and probably based only on Popo’s experience wth Linksys. I’ve had Linksys routers for a long time running high-demand small networks with numerous power failures to the property in that time, and I’ve never had to re-configure the settings.

Not to mention the fact that you can safeguard against such a situation occuring by saving a backup file of your settings from the web config, in case you do ever lose them.

@benseven – As you say, you have had Linksys routers for a long time and they do have routers that reset as i said. If you didn’t understand i was talking about the wireless routers, not their other kinds.

I was talking about wireless routers too. The way you phrased your response implies the problems you have experienced will occur with all linksys routers. This is a misleading statement as is proved by my experience which contradicts it as such.

Its not just my experience i am talking about. I am also talking about other peoples experience too. How do you know that your experiences with the router not resetting is just because you have a specific one? You and i may both be right. So i will rephrase my warning to:

Beware of Linksys routers because some of them reset when they get unplugged or lose power, but some don’t reset when this happens.

@benseven: Happy now?

Do you think it’s important when people ask questions to answer them in a fashion that is not biased or misleading?

Because I do.

Over the last 6 years or so I have set up and been responsible for maintaining no less than 5 different models of Linksys router for small – medium networks, some of them very high demand.

Over those 6 years and 5 models (a range of older and more basic to brand new and high end consumer Linksys wireless routers) all of them have suffered power outages at one stage or another, and NONE of them have ever lost their settings.

As I mentioned before, even if they had lost settings, these take 5 minutes to re-apply provided you had the sense to backup the config file at the time of setup.

Don’t discourage someone from purchasing a router by one of the leading networking manufacturers by stating your experience as fact when actually it could be the best option for them to go for.

(I should also point out I’ve used and maintain some of the D-Link routers in this thread, and they’re good – I’m not on the warpath due to some odd allegiance to Linksys).

Ok i am telling you what i have expierenced and what many others have also. If the things i have mentioned not happen to you then your lucky, but you cant exclude the fact that it does happen. You make it sound as if the reset will never happen no matter what with Linksys.

Now i will agree with you now because you are the first person i have met without problems which is new and surprising to me. I didn’t know that not all of their routers do reset, i guess i just heard the horror stories. Still SOME Linksys routers do reset.

I have to agree with popo. I’ve had some linksys routers (2 different models) that did reset and were constant trouble. Another one would crash where all lights were solid. It required a power cycle or sometimes even a factory reset to ever get the dang thing working again. I switched to D-Link. I, too, work in IT. At work, I go with Cisco. But, at home, I choose D-link. (the affordability factor obviously)