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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: jon996 on April 25, 2005, 17:59

Title: xbox live
Post by: jon996 on April 25, 2005, 17:59

hey all..
this may sound quite silly but..here goes..

i have a wireless internet and i was wondering if i could put in a networkcard in and have a wired connection to the xbox? would this work?

jono<<

Title: xbox live
Post by: Sandra on April 25, 2005, 20:20

It certainly should Jon.
Are you using a router with ethernet too or just a wi fi access point and wi fi cards at the moment ?

Title: xbox live
Post by: jon996 on April 25, 2005, 23:45

i am using a wireless router from downstairs to my pc. i cant afford a wireless bridge at the mo. so if i connect the xbox with a wired link to my pc it should be sweett?

jon

Title: xbox live
Post by: Sandra on April 26, 2005, 00:22

Yes, if youre connecting from an ethernet card in your pc then you will need a crossed cable.
If it was from the router then it would need a straight cable, although most routers these days seem to have auto sensing and will accept both straight and crossed cables  :)

Title: xbox live
Post by: jon996 on April 30, 2005, 12:42

Right e ho. the crossed cable arrived today [yipppee] HOWEVER, it wont connect? all i get is "limited or no connectivity". it is tres annoying. i dont know what im doing/done wrong? any one shed anylight over this ? :wink:

jonnnn<

edit: iv realised that i need to share my internet connection with the xbox so i tired to turn it on but got this message..
(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg256.echo.cx%2Fimg256%2F1900%2Fxbox2gl.jpg&hash=0bb256ab2910c984b0a8b903cbf26525ababc605)

does this mean that im goin to have to buy a 30£ wireless bridge instead :twisted:

Title: xbox live
Post by: Sandra on April 30, 2005, 13:42

It should be possible Jon but I must admit I have never tried it with an Xbox myself.
Have you run the network wizard again with the Xbox connected and turned on ?
You may have to go into a Dos window and do the command iprenew/all, i cant think of the exact command as DOS isnt my forte but if you look in the help section of XP and look up IP it should give you the commands  :)

Title: xbox live
Post by: sam on April 30, 2005, 14:34

this might be of use...

Title: xbox live
Post by: sam on April 30, 2005, 14:34

or there is always: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xboxwirelessadapter.htm

Title: xbox live
Post by: Sandra on April 30, 2005, 15:31

The error code for your problem is 765 Jon.
I cant find much about how to fix it but I did come across this :

Error 765 - Internet connection sharing cannot be enabled. A LAN connection is already configured with the IP address required for automatic IP addressing.

Make sure that Internet Connection Sharing is set to LAN.

Dont know if it helps or not  :?