TEW-647GA Wireless Gaming Adapter is powered by the latest wireless standard draft 802.11n technology to allow the Ethernet-ready game console (including Nintendo Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3) to connect to the wireless network.
If you have already had a wireless network environment in home, and you would like to go live game with your game console in the comfort of your living room without the clutter of the wires, consider of installing the TEW-647GA Wireless Gaming Adapter. Mostly home wireless routers are embedded with 4-RJ45 Ethernet ports to allow you use one of them to connect via the UTP cable to the game console. If you do mind with the hassle of running the wires cable to the living room, you can extend the network wirelessly – no clutter of the wires cable – with TEW-647GA.
What This Product Does
TEW-647GA Wireless Gaming Adapter is powered by the future wireless technology you can taste today – the wireless n technology, but it is backwards compatible with wireless –g and wireless -b devices. With wireless –n standard and the smart MIMO antenna technology, TEW-647GA provides much faster speed and longer distances (wireless coverage up to 50 meters indoor, 100 meters outdoor) than normal wireless –g standards. Setting up the adapter is easy with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) feature, setup wizard and intuitive Web browser configuration. With WPS supports, TEW-647GA lets you integrate other WPS devices into your secured network quickly.
TEW-647GA Wireless Gaming Adapter allows you to connect multiple gaming consoles wirelessly and play head-to-head or challenge others over the Internet in multiplayer mode wirelessly from the comfort of the living room. How secure the wireless connection is? We know that wireless signal is susceptible with the eavesdropping by unauthorized users within the wireless coverage, but the TEW-647GA supports the latest wireless security WPA/WPA2 and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK and it also supports 64/128-bit WEP for legacy wireless devices.
Minimum Installation Requirements and Configuration
Installation the TEW-647GA Wireless Gaming Adapter needs the following minimum requirements:
- A computer with a NIC adapter installed
- Available wireless router environment such as TEW-639GR with DHCP server enabled
- A Game console such as XBOX 360 with Ethernet-port ready
The following figure is the wireless gaming adapter diagram to allow the TEW-647GA connects to the wireless network.
With WPS support, configuration of the wireless adapter is very easy. The following steps help you configure the wireless gaming adapter that connects to the wireless router (that supports WPS):
- Plug the power adapter into the TEW-647GA and then into an available power outlet
- Press the WPS button on your wireless router
- Press the WPS button on the TEW-647GA. The WPS button will start to blink
- Once the WPS button becomes steady, the TEW-647GA has been successfully configured
- Connect an Ethernet cable from the LAN port on the TEW-647GA to an Ethernet port on your gaming console
- Configuration and installation is now complete.
TEW-647GA Wireless Gaming Adapter operates in 2.4GHz radio frequency, with 2 built-in antennas. If your wireless network supports the dual-band frequency both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz, you can consider WET610N Linksys Wireless-N Ethernet Bridge with Dual-Band.
If you would like a wireless environment with dual-band frequency – consider DGL-4500 D-Link which is specifically designed for gamers in mind.
See also:
- Other wireless game console adapters
- Wireless router gateway with built-in DSL modem
- Wireless routers that supports Game console
