While Apple’s new 802.11n enabled AirPort Extreme has been a topic of mucha conversación around team MacUser’s water cooler, the base station may not be all roses. But for those Mac users who also enjoy gaming on the Xbox 360, you may have to make allowances for the two to play nice.
It appears that the 360 and AirPort Extreme don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to encrypted wireless networks. The reasons behind this incompatibility have not yet been discovered, and fingers are pointing every which way. When security is turned off, the Xbox and AirPort Extreme work fine—and users have also reported that the new base station is perfectly compatible with the Wi-Fi in Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3.
Another case of Apple and Microsoft being petty with each other, or just a genuine bug? Let’s just hope they can put aside their differences long enough to help those who are really hurting here: the children.
[via Macworld UK]
gizmodo and other sites are reporting wireless-N compatibility issues between the XBox 360 and Linksys and D-Link routers.
Even though I'm wearing my Steve-Jobs-RDF-deflector, I am giving Apple the benefit of the doubt here.
hey Paul, think about this first. The XBOX 360 has more than a year outside on the market, so im sure that apple already knew how the wireless connection works on it. and the new Airport is wel... new. well thats my though, considering one is older than the other one, i dont see how its microsoft's problem. And the ipod works hand in hand with the 360 just know that as well.