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iamfanboy on 19 July 2008
MrBubbles said:
iamfanboy said:

That brings up another question. What would I need to get the 360 online. I have a wired network... I run a home business so I have no intestions of messing with my setup (e.g. wireless). Is it as simple as connecting the 360 to the router?

 

you need:

1 xbox 360

1 ethernet cable

1 router or modem

1 internet connection

1 silver or gold account (silver is free, but you should get a month gold for free just by signing up anyways)

directions:

plug ethernent cable from your modem/router into your xbox360. turn power on. create an online account. and there you go.

 

You made it sound so simple :)

 

Perhaps I'm going off topic and should start a new thread but since you're hear.  What are the differences between Silver and Gold... can I play online with Silver?



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MrBubbles on 19 July 2008

gold is required for online play... $3-5 a month depending on where you look



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MrBubbles on 19 July 2008

http://www.xbox.com/en-CA/live/memberships/



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Munkeh111 on 19 July 2008

the OS takes up a lot of space, so you are not getting the 20GB, it is closer to 15GB



slimeattack on 19 July 2008

Better if you bought a PS3:)



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Squilliam on 19 July 2008
Munkeh111 said:
the OS takes up a lot of space, so you are not getting the 20GB, it is closer to 15GB

Wrong...

The OS is stored on a Flash rom, the reason for that discrepency is that Hard drives are rated for decimel bytes 1,000,000 bytes = megabyte whereas operating systems report them in Binary bytes - 1,024,000 bytes = 1 megabyte IIRC and the Xbox360 has a few gigs set aside for game caching as well.

And its about 13.9gb for the maximum available HDD space on the 20gb.

 



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Munkeh111 on 19 July 2008
Squilliam said:
Munkeh111 said:
the OS takes up a lot of space, so you are not getting the 20GB, it is closer to 15GB

Wrong...

The OS is stored on a Flash rom, the reason for that discrepency is that Hard drives are rated for decimel bytes 1,000,000 bytes = megabyte whereas operating systems report them in Binary bytes - 1,024,000 bytes = 1 megabyte IIRC and the Xbox360 has a few gigs set aside for game caching as well.

And its about 13.9gb for the maximum available HDD space on the 20gb.

 

 

Ok, I just assumed that was what it was, but it is still quite annoying that you do not get anywhere near the advertised drive space



Xen on 19 July 2008
slimeattack said:
Better if you bought a PS3:)

True, but dude wants a 360 so let him get one.

 



slimeattack on 19 July 2008

If you must have a 360, then buy the $299 pro. When you take in account the price for extra HDD, it is still cheaper than an Elite.



mrstickball on 19 July 2008
Munkeh111 said: 

Ok, I just assumed that was what it was, but it is still quite annoying that you do not get anywhere near the advertised drive space

A very, very large portion of that missing 7GB is due to the partition for game saves, and backwards compatability. You can download the entire Xbox 360 BC software, and put a few gigs of saves without taking up any of that 13GB of space. Trust me on this.

 



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