Xbox Wireless Adapter Details, Live Bundle Confirmed

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday September 16, 2003 @03:58PM from the speedy-gonzales-costs-moolah dept.

Thanks to Reuters for their story confirming the official Xbox Wireless Adapter, now locked in for an October 5th release for $139. Details of this 802.11b/g device were inadvertently leaked by the FCC a couple of weeks back, and TeamXbox has a first look at the adapter, but this announcement also reveals the new Xbox Live bundle deal, as Microsoft "...will offer a $40 rebate to people who buy both the adapter and the $69 Xbox Live Starter Kit, which offers a one-year subscription to the company's online gaming service, a headset for voice communications and a copy of the game 'MechAssault.'"

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Oh, god no! by Inoshiro · 2003-09-16 19:10 · Score: 3, Informative

Not 32 characters!

For shame, that 32-byte key will be the end of inumerable Xbox controllers!

Seriously, though, you seem to have forgotten that a bit is 1/8th of a byte, which would be 1 character you type in via the keyboard.

I'd be more worried that your keyspace will be restricted since Xbox Live!'s little keyboard will only let you enter a-zA-Z0-9 and some punctuation (instead of a full range of nul to char 255).

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