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Buy a WRT54gl, put dd-wrt on it, set it up as a client-bridge, now you can network your xbox, HTPC, PS3, etc. easily.

This is what I did to move the big blue ugly cable running across the entrance hallway. Wife loves the change :)

Granted, I'm playing content off the same box.

Coudn't you get wifi via usb?

Wifi sucks in my apartment, http://www.netcomm.com.au/netcomm-products/powerline/np504 solved the problem for me.

stick a dongle on it.

Really? I'm fortunate that my parents recently built a house and wired ethernet everywhere (I'm tired of helping my dad try to configure transcoding servers to stream to broken DLNA implementations that vary between the 3 different Samsung LCDs he bought within 3 months) and I'll be doing the same.