Xbox 360 geeks?

I am trying to connect my Xbox 360 via a crossover cable to my laptop (with Vista Premium) so it can pick up the wireless connection from my laptop, instead of spending a small fortune on some gay network adapter from Microsoft. Alas, I am having problems...

I have enabled internet connection sharing on the wireless adapter on the laptop, given the local area connection adapter a static IP address and I have also configured the Xbox 360 with a static IP address and given it the default gateway of the wireless adapter on the laptop. When I go to test the setup from the Xbox it fails on the MTU part. I have set the MTU on the laptop and the router to something like 1400 (microsoft say anything over 1364) and I still get this problem. Another strange thing is that the laptop cannot ping the Xbox using command prompt, yet it does recognise the Xbox in network places, or whatever Vista calls it now.

Has anyone ever attempted doing this before on their own setup and succeeded? Should I use a regular network cable to connect the Xbox and the laptop together, even though MOST computers link directly to each other using a crossover cable? Maybe I was just unlucky and no one could connect to Xbox Live last night, I don't know....

Da.

Thank feck for that! I thought I lost what I typed then!

Just Buy a PS3. :agree:

I would If I wasn't so tight! :D

I think I may have answered my own question here though, it looks as though Xbox Live was down yesterday so it was probably sods law that I was trying this out yesterday for 4 hours when it wouldn't of worked anyway! Can anyone confirm that Xbox Live is on now and that it was down last night?

[quote=When I go to test the setup from the Xbox it fails on the MTU part. I have set the MTU on the laptop and the router to something like 1400 (microsoft say anything over 1364) and I still get this problem.


Da.[/quote]
iv started having this problem happened 2days ago!!!

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Originally Posted by UNICRONICUS

I would If I wasn't so tight! :D

I think I may have answered my own question here though, it looks as though Xbox Live was down yesterday so it was probably sods law that I was trying this out yesterday for 4 hours when it wouldn't of worked anyway! Can anyone confirm that Xbox Live is on now and that it was down last night?

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didnt realise it may have been down... who told you that, give me 2mns and i check my 360:smokin:

awesome mines now working :laugh: have you got cod4?

I didn't read it here but this is what I found just now http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331067,00.asp

I don't have COD4 yet, I'm currently plugging GTA IV, I think I played COD4 too much on my mate's PS3 and his PC :cry:

I will try after work then to get on and see if I can create a gamer tag :agree:

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Originally Posted by Sy5GTT

Just Buy a PS3. :agree:

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:agree:

All in good time my son, probably 2 years from now when they're £50 :laugh:

Sweet, it works! I'm coming online, you're all dead!