Question 2

Bill from Des Moines asks:

We just bought our son an X-Box, and he asked us if we could get X-Box Live. What is X-Box Live? How does it work with the Internet?

Answer

In short, the X-Box has an Ethernet port in the back of it that allows you to connect it to the Internet. If an X-Box owner chooses to he or she can subscribe to X-Box Live, (a service from Microsoft with a yearly subscription fee). X-Boxes work just fine without the X-Box live BUT if an X-Box owner does subscribe to X-Box Live they have to ability to play many of their game titles online with/against other X-Box Live subscribers that also own that game. Additionally subscribers of the X-Box Live service can talk to other X-Box gamers live during game play and also see if their gaming buddies are online. X-Box Live is a Microsoft service, and it requires a high-speed connection to the Internet (DSL or Cable Modem), it will not work with dialup Internet connections (like the Sony Playstation 2).

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