Using 360 Live at University - How to

[badgermonkey]

Heya, I noticed a lot of people in a lot of unis have trouble connecting their 360s to Xbox Live at University. I found that for the majority of people, the problem lay NOT in the blocking of ports.

No, it does indeed lie in the university's "safeguard" system thing. Basically when you connect through with your PC, it registers the MAC address of your PC, that way it stops other people running through the net etc.

However, the terms and conditions generally state it's so that you don't have multiple people using the same connection. You are quite able to bypass this fully within regulations to connect your 360. Here's how.

1. Find the MAC address of your PC. Can't remember where on the PC you can see it, I see it everytime I attempt to access the net anyway though.

2. Somewhere in your 360 settings is the current MAC address of the 360. Change it so that it matches the MAC address of your PC.


Voila, you can now access Xbox Live!

 

[badgermonkey]

MAC address on PC:

Start -> run -> cmd -> ipconfig /all

Most uni's DO block the ports for XBL too so that won't work. <3 Bristol uni. They allow it

Edit: A router or a PC with 2 network ports can also bypass it if the ports aren't blocked.

Ah there we go

Everyone I gave this advice to in various unis had it work as long as they changed the address

 

[badgermonkey]

I thought the MAC address was locked to the hardware?

You can change the MAC address of the 360