My xbox 360 will not see my AirPort Extreme basestation wirelessly.

I just bought a new AirPort Extreme from my local Apple store last night. All devices work great (iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, Win7 Laptop) all exept my Xbox 360. My Xbox will not even see the AirPort base station via the older white Xbox wireless adapter. I am at a loss here because I thought the SSID was broadcasting since my other devices found it no problem. Anyone else have or solved this issue?

Microsoft offered two versions of the "white" USB Wi-Fi adapter for the original XBox 360; one for 802.11b/g and the other included 802.11n. Both only support the 2.4 GHz radio band. Which do you have?
By default, your new 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) provides support on both the 2.4 & 5 GHz radio bands and for all of the current radio modes (802.11) ... so, by theory, the XBox should be able to find and connect to its wireless network. However, I have noted that original XBox did have some issues connecting with these default settings.
You can change the default radio mode setting to a number of other choices. Note that you will need to hold down the Option key (for the Mac) before making a redio mode selection from the AirPort Utility to "see" the additional options. I would suggest the following to see if the XBox can connect: 802.11n only (5 GHz) - 802.11b/g.
If that radio mode still doesn't solve the connection problem, try temporarily disabling wireless security on the AEBSn. Please post back your results.

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