Xbox 360 Networking Tips

This digg gives some basic networking info to optimize your Xbox 360 extender setup. This will help get you thinking about the different way to optimize the performance of your wireless network:

While I'm not convinced you need to invest in more expensive 802.11a hardware simply to connect your Xbox 360 wirelessly, you definitely want to keep the wireless traffic from your Xbox to a Media Center or the Internet segmented to optimize your connection experience. If your Xbox 360 is the only wireless device on your network, this is already easy: just get a wireless access point for your network and wireless adapter for the Xbox 360 and you're ready to go. If you have several other wireless devices, things get a little more confusing. Ideally, you want to use two different access points for your wireless network traffic: one for the Xbox 360 and one for "everything else." Each of these access points will have a different SSID (the name of the router) and connect using a different channel to prevent crosstalk and network congestion.

The author also mentions that you should avoid using a 2.4 Ghz cordless phone because it interferes with 802.11g networking standard. I don’t think I have ever heard of this; has anyone run into this problem?