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Xbox Wi-Fi Connection issues with WMM

Xbox Wi-Fi Connection issues with WMM I ran into something interesting the other day; my friend called me to let me know he could not connect his Xbox to Wi-Fi. He knows I've been studying wireless for a while now and I was up for the challenge. I got remote access to his machine and took a look at his Calix router from the local ISP.  The wireless configuration page was extremely basic, but we verified the SSID, passphrase, and security settings. Everything was close to default and couldn't see anything strange. The Xbox had issues getting an IP address for hours, so I was trying to get them connected ASAP. Since I was doing this 100% remote, I was limited with my options for troubleshooting, but luckily the desktop I was connected to has a wireless adapter. I ran the  wlan show network mode=bssid  command on their windows machine. The house was using wireless extenders and I wanted to see if the extenders were causing any trouble but couldn't see a...