Microsoft MN-740 Start Here

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This Start Here guide will help you set up your Microsoft ® Broadband Networking
Xbox ® Wireless Adapter on a Microsoft Xbox video game system. Before you
go to the next page, make sure that you have everything you need to begin.
To play games on the Xbox Live online game service, you need:
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Existing network that has a wireless router, base station, or gateway
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Xbox game that has the Xbox Live logo
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Subscription to Xbox Live service (sold separately)
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Broadband Internet connection (cable or DSL)
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To create a wireless connection for System Link (console-to-console) play,
you need:
Two Xbox video game systems
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Second Xbox wireless adapter
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Xbox game that supports System Link play
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Box Contents
Xbox wireless adapter Xbox wireless adapter Power supply cord
setup disc (MN-740)
User's Guide and Ethernet cable
Start Here guide
Before using this product, read both the Xbox wireless adapter User's Guide and the Xbox
Instruction Manual for important safety information and health warnings. Please retain these
manuals for future reference.
© 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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2 connect
wireless adapter
If you just purchased a router, base station, or gateway, set it up before
setting up this adapter.
To connect the Microsoft Xbox Wireless Adapter
Leave your Xbox console and any wireless networking devices (such as a router)
turned on when you connect the wireless adapter. For suggestions on placing
your wireless networking devices for best performance, see Chapter 2 of the
User's Guide.
Connect one end of the provided
1
Ethernet cable to the To Xbox port
on your Xbox wireless adapter...
To power
supply
3 Plug one end of the power supply into
the Power port on the Xbox wireless
adapter, and then plug the other end
into an electrical outlet.
...and then connect the other end
2
of the Ethernet cable to the Ethernet
port on your Xbox console.
Ethernet cable
3 install
Xbox Dashboard update
Insert the Xbox wireless adapter setup disc into the disc tray of your Xbox console.
Your Xbox Dashboard will be updated if necessary. Setup then detects available
wireless networks, and displays them on the Select Network screen.
If the Select Network screen appears...
...and you want to connect to an
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existing network, select the
network name. Setup will detect
many of the settings that the Xbox
wireless adapter needs for connect-
ing to that network. Go to step 4
on the next page.
...and you want to set up the first
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Xbox console in a new System Link
connection, select Other, enter a
network name on the Network
Name screen, and then go to step
4 on the next page. When you set
up the second Xbox console, the
network name that you specify will
appear on the Select Network
screen.
If the Select Network screen does
not appear...
...and you want to connect to an
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existing network, see Chapter 3
in the User's Guide for trouble-
shooting information.
...and you want to set up the first
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Xbox console in a new System
Link connection, skip to step 4
on the next page to specify and
describe your wireless network.