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To router my USB modem? I will be getting LIVE again around the time of the release for Ninja Gaiden and am basically looking for a way I can run my broadband connection through a router so I don't have to have my PC turned on whilst playing on LIVE. BT were charging £129.99 for their's however I am sure there must be a cheaper and better way around it.

Any info appreciated, cheers.

Cheers, just found them, might as well order at the same time.

Glad I can help.

On ebuyer, categories > cables/kvm switches/tools > network patch cables.

My, nearly £2 for a blue Belkin cable. They have gone up. Oh and they do all sorts of lengths as well, there are literally hundreds of cables.

Right, muchos gracias for the help. I won't have LIVE itself for a few weeks either. I still have my exisiting LIVE connection but I would rather just cancel it was setup through ICS and bar an odd couple I can't be bothered with the friends list I had last time around and I would like to add Tribute and a few others I never bothered with last tiem around. Time for a complete change me thinks.

Oh and you didn't happen to see a straight ethernet cable on EBUYER did you? Can't seem to find one.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Ye, isn't that just the standard connection you plug into a Phone? Its
> is on mine, the litte one with a clip?

Yeah that's the one, called an RJ 11 to be specific.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> This time around I will lob you on the friends list as last time
> (towards the end anyway) I noticed you sent an invite but because the
> connection had gone and the Xbox was on its way I never got around to
> replying.

I might not respond instantly either, I managed to break my wireless router. Still, as soon as it gets back, I'm on Live. So much to download now.

Ye, isn't that just the standard connection you plug into a Phone? Its is on mine, the litte one with a clip?

Only when using ICS. Connecting any two computers directly requires a cross over cable.

I don't know what you mean about transferring the USB connection.

In the back of every USB modem, mine is a BT Voyager, you plug a small cable into the modem and the other end of that cable into the micro filter. Well you plug that cable into the back of the router instead of the modem.

This time around I will lob you on the friends list as last time (towards the end anyway) I noticed you sent an invite but because the connection had gone and the Xbox was on its way I never got around to replying.

Ye I still have my Network card. Doesn't LIVE require a cross over cable or is that only for ICS? Also The only cables I have in my modem are the phone line and the USB connection, do I need to transfer the USB connection or do I replace it with an ethernet cable?

Ta.

Yeah that should be you.

You run the cable that ran into the back of the USB modem (RJ11) and plug it into the back of the router instead. Then you take a straight through ethernet cable and plug it into the PC or Xbox and that is you.

Well you need a network card in your PC obviously, but unless you binned it, you do.