BANGALORE, INDIA: With the great end-of-year shopping season effectively now upon us, here comes a great news for Microsoft XBox 360 lovers.

As per reports, Microsoft has finally made it official, it released 802.11n wireless adapter for Xbox 360. The device sells for between $88-100.

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The new adapter should provide much more bandwidth then the current line of 802.11g adapters and will use MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) and two antennas to provide a stronger signal and extended range. Microsoft says the new adapters will have double the range of the 802.11g adapters.

Electronista adds that the "adapter is also dual-band and can run on 5GHz to avoid interference as well as 2.4GHz for those with older 802.11n routers or who have to run a mixed-mode network to support legacy devices."

The device is connected by the means of an Ethernet port and is recognized by the Xbox 360 as a wired network and the new adapter can work with A/B/G networks.