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Never let it be said that gamers aren't creative and industrious people. We find some strange and unusual ways of fixing problems. Take, for example, the recent case of Ryan Ketsenburg, a sophomore construction management major at Missouri State University in the United States. You see, he and his room-mate had just returned back to their dorm room from a student trip and had crashed out - accidentally leaving the door unlocked. In the middle of the night, a thief sneaked into their room and stole their Xbox 360, leaving the wireless controllers behind.
Ketsenburg, for reasons unknown, decided to flip on the wireless controller. Blink. Blink. Blink. Connect. You see, each wireless 360 controller knows what console it is synced to, thus it won't randomly connect to just any console nearby. It will only connect to the console it goes with until it is physically reset. Realizing what this meant, Ketsenburg then set out to do some detective work.
Looking up the product stats on the Microsoft site, Ketsenburg learned that the Xbox 360 controllers have a wireless range just shy of 10 metres. He started by narrowing it down to floors in his dorm. The controller only blinked on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors, but not on the third or seventh. This discovery made him narrow his search to the fifth floor. From there, he worked in a pattern, basing it on where the controller lost and regained signal, to triangulate an area where the stolen console had to be.
Contacting the Police with his rather interesting discovery as well as the college's 5th floor resident Assistant, they proceeded to zero in on the room in the center of the area outlined by the controller. Sure enough, when they opened the door for the room in the center, there was the stolen 360; green lights glowing its recognition of the wireless controller Ketsenburg held in his hand.
Ketsenburg, for reasons unknown, decided to flip on the wireless controller. Blink. Blink. Blink. Connect. You see, each wireless 360 controller knows what console it is synced to, thus it won't randomly connect to just any console nearby. It will only connect to the console it goes with until it is physically reset. Realizing what this meant, Ketsenburg then set out to do some detective work.
Looking up the product stats on the Microsoft site, Ketsenburg learned that the Xbox 360 controllers have a wireless range just shy of 10 metres. He started by narrowing it down to floors in his dorm. The controller only blinked on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors, but not on the third or seventh. This discovery made him narrow his search to the fifth floor. From there, he worked in a pattern, basing it on where the controller lost and regained signal, to triangulate an area where the stolen console had to be.
Contacting the Police with his rather interesting discovery as well as the college's 5th floor resident Assistant, they proceeded to zero in on the room in the center of the area outlined by the controller. Sure enough, when they opened the door for the room in the center, there was the stolen 360; green lights glowing its recognition of the wireless controller Ketsenburg held in his hand.
Full article here: http://games.on.net/...ints_and_laughs
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