This would work wouldn't it? (XBOX360)

Pulsedriver

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Hiya!

This is for my friend, he has just bought an XBOX360 Elite, but his room is upstairs from the internet.

He has Virgin Media cable modem plugged into a wireless router, but currently runs a long cable to his room to provide his internet.

INSTEAD of him buying the wireless adaptor, I have suggested he buys a switch
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-099-NG&groupid=46&catid=419&subcat=

and plugs his current cable that goes to his PC, into the switch, and runs a cable from the switch to the PC and the switch the to 360.

That would work wouldn't it?

Thanks
 
Hmm, im not sure about IP addressed for cable, I use ADSL myself here and just ran a wire from my router and it connected automatically.

Im guessing Virgin Media give a static IP or is it dynamic within a set range?

I guess I just assumed the switch would auto-assign IP addresses...
 
The ip is assigned to the modem rather than the PC which is why it picked it up automatically. The problem being is now you have two devices under the same IP address, the xbox would have to be assigned an internal IP addy by the router, or within the xbox for it to work.

Should be very easy to do though, if not plug and play compatiable. Depends on the router setup.
 
if you do have to assign an ip to the xbox (presuming DHCP isn't turned on) the whole setup won't take you more than 5 minutes most. Should be very easy.

It does work as I've set up xbox 360's in an office, which is basically the same.
 
It would work it states it in the manual, i use a wireless connection on my PC via dongle but it wont work as the software that connects the dongle is not compatable and crashes. it works perfectly fine if i bridge a connection onto my laptops built in wireless card though.

open up his 360 manual and check under the networking section.
 
It's the latest Belkin N1 Vision Cable Router, it has a switch yes, but the point being he can't run another cable up to his room as the one that is there has been done properly, ie drilled wall, outside cable back into house etc.

So it's a lot easier to use the wire thats already there and just share it in a switch.
 
That router does have DHCP so, all you have to do is plug the Xbox360 into the network, tell it to get an IP address automatically and it'll just work.
 
It'll work mate.

Just check that the router and / or switch are 'auto-sensing', otherwise you'll need to use a cross-over.
 
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