connecting 360 live network question?

dustiestrat · 27 Sep 2006 at 08:14

hi ppl my mates trying to connect his 360 live and has to network a connection through his pc because he's got a cheapy btbroadband hub with no ports in it he's done all that but the 360 connection test screen keeps failing on ip address can anyone advise?

sparkymark75 · 27 Sep 2006 at 08:43

Has he enabled ICS? I tried to set my mates up using ICS and it was a nightmare, failing the tests one minute and then passing them the next.

dustiestrat · 27 Sep 2006 at 09:04

ics ?
i had to do mine a similar way and didnt have any trouble what so ever just plugged it in to pc bridged the connection and was live so i dont get why his i.p address is failing he's got the right cable aswell thats the only prob i had was the cable you get given is a crossover rj45 and you need a standard going from 360 to pc .

DaveyD · 27 Sep 2006 at 10:10

dustiestrat said:
ics ?
i had to do mine a similar way and didnt have any trouble what so ever just plugged it in to pc bridged the connection and was live so i dont get why his i.p address is failing he's got the right cable aswell thats the only prob i had was the cable you get given is a crossover rj45 and you need a standard going from 360 to pc .

You need crossover to connect the 360 to PC though I thought.

dustiestrat · 27 Sep 2006 at 10:47

nah the cable it comes with is a crossover cable so u can plug it straight iunto a router i stole standard ethernet networking cable from work and works fine .

DaveyD · 27 Sep 2006 at 10:52

Try it with the crossover cable, as I'm pretty sure that's what you need for it connecting between two machines, if you were connecting through a router, then you'd just use normal patch.

dhill · 27 Sep 2006 at 10:57

DaveyD said:
Try it with the crossover cable, as I'm pretty sure that's what you need for it connecting between two machines, if you were connecting through a router, then you'd just use normal patch.

Davey mate your spot on:

1. If your directly connecting one PC/xbox/xbox 360 etc to another PC/xbox/xbox 360 etc then you need a crossover cable
2. If your connecting via a router, hub, switch etc you need a normal patch cable

dustiestrat · 27 Sep 2006 at 11:05

100% sure you dont as i said stole mine from work and its not crossover and that works fine with 360 and pc but when tried connecting pc to my laptop didnt wanna no so had to buy a crossova cable for that .

Andy298 · 27 Sep 2006 at 11:28

dustiestrat said:
nah the cable it comes with is a crossover cable so u can plug it straight iunto a router i stole standard ethernet networking cable from work and works fine .

What, the cable that comes with the 360 is crossover? News to me that. Also I'm pretty sure that crossover is used to connect to ethernet to ethernet based machines without a hub/switch or router.

bigbilly50 · 27 Sep 2006 at 11:29

With the original Xbox you needed a crossover cable - this is not the case with the 360, you just use a standard cable (that came with it).

dustiestrat · 27 Sep 2006 at 11:31

well then i got a weird 360 or pc coz i'm on 360 live all the time and i know my ethernet cable from work isnt crossover .