No DHCP via wireless but OK wired

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on a weird problem I have.

I've got an "old" Xbox One with a wired connection that works faultlessly. Yesterday I bought a 2nd Xbox One but because this one is going in a bedroom, it has a wireless connection. From the get-go, the wireless connection was flaky. My SSID shows every
time, and the WPA2 password is accepted, but I get an error "Can't connect to DHCP server". I have about half a dozen wired connections running fine from my DHCP server and another half dozen wireless connections, but the new Xbox just won't accept an IP address.
In desperation, I switched the DHCP server from my router to my NAS, and again everything would work apart from the new, wireless Xbox One. Eventually I grabbed a 10 metre Cat5 cable and connected the Xbox wired straight to the router. Lo and behold, it connects
fine to the original DHCP server and all tests run fine. Unplugging the cable and dropping back to wireless, again it sees the SSID, accepts the password but won't communicate with the DHCP server. I checked the DHCP table on the router and it does allocate
an IP address to the Xbox, wired or wireless, so for some reason the Xbox just isn't seeing it. I should add that this new Xbox is replacing an Xbox 360 in the same location, and the 360 used wireless and never had a problem with DHCP. It does seem to be One-specific.

For now, I'll leave the Xbox wired, but I thought I'd report this in case something got a bit *** up with the wireless code in a recent update. If I didn't have the reluctant fallback to a wired connection, I'd be really *** now.

Does anyone have any idea why the Xbox might fail to communicate with a DHCP server wirelessly, but work 100% wired to the very same router???

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Are all Xbox One Controllers going to be Wireless?

Yes, but also no.

Every Xbox One controller is wireless. However, when you plug it in via USB it becomes wired and sends the signal via wire instead of wireless (while also charging batteries, if you are using the charge-pack - or in the case of your question, it's using the power via cable instead of the batteries).

This is in contrast to how Xbox 360 controllers work. X360 has both wireless and wired. An X360 wireless controller when plugged in via USB is still sending the signal wireless, but is getting power via the USB. This is why you can't plug an Xbox 360 wireless controller via USB into your computer and have it work, because the controller is still sending a wireless signal.

This makes the Xbox One controllers great for both Xbox One and PC gaming, because you don't need to buy a 'wired' controller for it to work on the PC, you can just plug it in via USB and it'll send the signal via USB instead. I'm really glad Microsoft did this.

 

Are all Xbox One Controllers going to be Wireless?

Well, that sounds great. Let me get this straight though, does this mean that we don't have to buy a separate Play and Charge kit? Not like it matters too much to me, as I prefer wireless, but I wanna know.

 

May you please check in the network settings if the new One uses an alternate MAC adress? If so please delete it and then try again if the One can obtain an IP address from the router then.