Client Mode - DD-WRT
details the final steps involved in reprogramming the flash bios in an old Linksys router, and turning it into a remote client. Basically, the Dd-WRT software lets you configure it so it will attach wirelessly to your primary router, and then you can hook up a network-enabled item (such as an XBox360) to it, and have Internet access, and it'll hook up to the XBox Live service.
Alternatively, I could have bought a $99 adapter. But I already had a router I wasn't using, and some time. Basically, I wanted to see if it could be done. And it can, but I went down a few wrong roads while doing it. (Note - follow the info at DD-WRT.com - they wrote the software, they've got a clue.)
However, you don't do just one thing with something like this. Apparently I had a free month of XBox Live Gold I never used - so we're trying that service out. And we're already Netflix subscribers - and Microsoft has a partnership with Netflix that enables you to stream movies across... your XBox, direct to your TV.
I feel I'm getting sucked into an electronic web. Oh, I'm going willingly all right - nobody twisted my arm to get me to attach the old Linksys, after all. But when, with all this amazing new content, am I supposed to sleep?
J.