Today, I brought an XBox 360 home and attempted to set it up with everything it needs to connect to Live. For this report, I will be using my Nintendo Wii as a baseline, going by the following specs:
Connection type: Wireless
Cost to connect: 0$
Time to setup: 5 minutes
Connection reliability: Excellent
Now for the 360:
-Wireless is available - so long as you want to buy an extra device that costs you 100$.
-The console is unable to recognize any PC on the network.
-Here's a better joke: All four PCs on the network is able to recognize the 360's presence on the network.
-Attempting to share a media library over the network makes Windows Media Player crash. On all four PCs.
-The 360 somehow reads MP3s but refuses to copy them, forcing one to burn an audio CD and then rip it back into file form on the console itself.
-The 360 also claims that it will have trouble connecting to the Internet but specifies no reason as to why other than some generic "there is a problem with your connection".
-Half the connection attempts are successful. On the other half, it claims UPnP isn't enabled.
-By the way, UPnP is enabled.
Connection type: Wired
Cost to connect: 0$ - but 100$ if I want to upgrade to wireless.
Time to setup: 4 hours and counting
Connection reliability: Poor
Message to the 360's setup interface: you suck. You fucking suck dick. You suck even the light around you. You are the most excrutiatingly painful process I've ever went through. And the kicker: even after trying every trick in the book, you still don't work properly.
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