360 Wireless Clashing With Wal-Mart Tech

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 24, 2005 @10:19AM from the cluttered-airwaves dept.

vladcole writes "Xbox 360 kiosks are getting shut down by some Wal-Mart employees sick of having their handheld inventory devices and printers malfunction, according to this compilation of Joystiq reader reports." From the article: "There's no reason to get worried about the Xbox 360 launch date (there, we recognized the elephant in the room), but the breadth and frequency of these reports point to a compatibility issue between the Xbox 360 and Wal-Mart, at least." Next Generation confirms that Wal-Mart is having issues with the 360 pods.

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Re:Wireless networks? by Guspaz · 2005-10-24 11:24 · Score: 5, Informative

What the Slashdot article neglects to mention is that Microsoft has already fixed the problem .

They had a fix within 24 hours and started rolling it out. It didn't affect wireless networks in general, only some specific point-of-sale systems.

Anyhow, to sum up, problem was fixed before launch and wouldn't have affected consumers anyhow.