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So I get broadband in the house, complete with a fancy wireless network meaning I can access the web from any part of the house without wires.
So what do you do with all this bandwidth?
Play games ofcourse!
I don't have an Xbox yet, but I had a friend who did, so we used his.
I went onto the site, read up all the do's and don't and how many ways you can set it up.
I had a laptop in my room, next to the TV, fully connected to the internet. Xbconnect was downloaded and installed.
I had a crossover cable ready.
The Xbox arrives and we plug it all in.
Problem number 1: The laptop and Xbox don't recognise each other.
It's a newish laptop (Christmas) with win Xp, and the Ethernet socket and crossover cable work find because I tested it on our router.
The Xbox can connect to the router through the crossover cable.
Can the Xbox and the laptop connect?
No. (some of you might know why in which case help would be appreciated! :-)
Plan B then:
Take the Xbox downstairs and connect it straight into the router.
The XBox recognised the router, the router recognised the Xbox and was already feeding the Pc I was running.
I load up Xbconnect and it can't detect the Xbox, even though I've followed the instructions perfectly.
I tried replacing the desktop PC with the newer laptop.
Still couldn't detect the Xbox.
I was left thinking that maybe the router was causing problems with the firewall. Tampering with the router only lost the internet connection (which wasn't helpful).
Anyway, after over an hour and a half of messing around, we gave up and played offline. BIG disappointment! :-(
I guess I'll have to wait until Halo 2 with Xbox live.
Live doesn't rely on other PC's, and my router with it's firewall has been designed for it...
I know I've done something wrong with setting up, but seeing as I've set up my connection exactly as they said and they didn't even hint that there'd be problems of this sort, I'm blaming them! :-)
Oh well, moaning rant over. :-)
So what do you do with all this bandwidth?
Play games ofcourse!
I don't have an Xbox yet, but I had a friend who did, so we used his.
I went onto the site, read up all the do's and don't and how many ways you can set it up.
I had a laptop in my room, next to the TV, fully connected to the internet. Xbconnect was downloaded and installed.
I had a crossover cable ready.
The Xbox arrives and we plug it all in.
Problem number 1: The laptop and Xbox don't recognise each other.
It's a newish laptop (Christmas) with win Xp, and the Ethernet socket and crossover cable work find because I tested it on our router.
The Xbox can connect to the router through the crossover cable.
Can the Xbox and the laptop connect?
No. (some of you might know why in which case help would be appreciated! :-)
Plan B then:
Take the Xbox downstairs and connect it straight into the router.
The XBox recognised the router, the router recognised the Xbox and was already feeding the Pc I was running.
I load up Xbconnect and it can't detect the Xbox, even though I've followed the instructions perfectly.
I tried replacing the desktop PC with the newer laptop.
Still couldn't detect the Xbox.
I was left thinking that maybe the router was causing problems with the firewall. Tampering with the router only lost the internet connection (which wasn't helpful).
Anyway, after over an hour and a half of messing around, we gave up and played offline. BIG disappointment! :-(
I guess I'll have to wait until Halo 2 with Xbox live.
Live doesn't rely on other PC's, and my router with it's firewall has been designed for it...
I know I've done something wrong with setting up, but seeing as I've set up my connection exactly as they said and they didn't even hint that there'd be problems of this sort, I'm blaming them! :-)
Oh well, moaning rant over. :-)
Maybe I wasn't patient enough.
How long did you wait while the xbconnect program detected your Xbox?
I wasted all that time through lack of patience?
How ironic! :-S
And Gamesfreak, subscribing to live would be a great I idea if I would get to use this Xbox more than once in a while! ;-)
I know, I know... I should buy my own Xbox...
Well, I'm earning now! :-)
How long did you wait while the xbconnect program detected your Xbox?
I wasted all that time through lack of patience?
How ironic! :-S
And Gamesfreak, subscribing to live would be a great I idea if I would get to use this Xbox more than once in a while! ;-)
I know, I know... I should buy my own Xbox...
Well, I'm earning now! :-)
A lot of XBconnect involves waiting.
You've gotta understand that XBConnect isn't official. Microsoft have nothing to do with it - and the Xbox wasn't meant for it.
Just a bunch of coders joined together and made XBconnect.
Just stick with Xbox Live :)
Just a bunch of coders joined together and made XBconnect.
Just stick with Xbox Live :)
So I get broadband in the house, complete with a fancy wireless network meaning I can access the web from any part of the house without wires.
So what do you do with all this bandwidth?
Play games ofcourse!
I don't have an Xbox yet, but I had a friend who did, so we used his.
I went onto the site, read up all the do's and don't and how many ways you can set it up.
I had a laptop in my room, next to the TV, fully connected to the internet. Xbconnect was downloaded and installed.
I had a crossover cable ready.
The Xbox arrives and we plug it all in.
Problem number 1: The laptop and Xbox don't recognise each other.
It's a newish laptop (Christmas) with win Xp, and the Ethernet socket and crossover cable work find because I tested it on our router.
The Xbox can connect to the router through the crossover cable.
Can the Xbox and the laptop connect?
No. (some of you might know why in which case help would be appreciated! :-)
Plan B then:
Take the Xbox downstairs and connect it straight into the router.
The XBox recognised the router, the router recognised the Xbox and was already feeding the Pc I was running.
I load up Xbconnect and it can't detect the Xbox, even though I've followed the instructions perfectly.
I tried replacing the desktop PC with the newer laptop.
Still couldn't detect the Xbox.
I was left thinking that maybe the router was causing problems with the firewall. Tampering with the router only lost the internet connection (which wasn't helpful).
Anyway, after over an hour and a half of messing around, we gave up and played offline. BIG disappointment! :-(
I guess I'll have to wait until Halo 2 with Xbox live.
Live doesn't rely on other PC's, and my router with it's firewall has been designed for it...
I know I've done something wrong with setting up, but seeing as I've set up my connection exactly as they said and they didn't even hint that there'd be problems of this sort, I'm blaming them! :-)
Oh well, moaning rant over. :-)
So what do you do with all this bandwidth?
Play games ofcourse!
I don't have an Xbox yet, but I had a friend who did, so we used his.
I went onto the site, read up all the do's and don't and how many ways you can set it up.
I had a laptop in my room, next to the TV, fully connected to the internet. Xbconnect was downloaded and installed.
I had a crossover cable ready.
The Xbox arrives and we plug it all in.
Problem number 1: The laptop and Xbox don't recognise each other.
It's a newish laptop (Christmas) with win Xp, and the Ethernet socket and crossover cable work find because I tested it on our router.
The Xbox can connect to the router through the crossover cable.
Can the Xbox and the laptop connect?
No. (some of you might know why in which case help would be appreciated! :-)
Plan B then:
Take the Xbox downstairs and connect it straight into the router.
The XBox recognised the router, the router recognised the Xbox and was already feeding the Pc I was running.
I load up Xbconnect and it can't detect the Xbox, even though I've followed the instructions perfectly.
I tried replacing the desktop PC with the newer laptop.
Still couldn't detect the Xbox.
I was left thinking that maybe the router was causing problems with the firewall. Tampering with the router only lost the internet connection (which wasn't helpful).
Anyway, after over an hour and a half of messing around, we gave up and played offline. BIG disappointment! :-(
I guess I'll have to wait until Halo 2 with Xbox live.
Live doesn't rely on other PC's, and my router with it's firewall has been designed for it...
I know I've done something wrong with setting up, but seeing as I've set up my connection exactly as they said and they didn't even hint that there'd be problems of this sort, I'm blaming them! :-)
Oh well, moaning rant over. :-)