Re: Xbox 360 and Media Center Connectivity Problems

Just wire the Xbox 360 connection to the router (guessing your MCE is wired
there in the first place) and you'll be done with the "networking." Wired
is the best, and since you'd be connecting the 360 to the router, you'll
also have your Internet connection. Both the 360 and PC need to be on the
same Local Area Network/Workgroup connection anyway to talk with each other.

If you have thick walls, and don't want to run the cable, then you're
probably stuck with the wireless from the 360 to the router. But 802.11g is
"okay" for streaming. Best is wired, of course, but sometimes physical
limitations in a home can back you into a corner.

The problem with the setup you're trying to do is you're duplicating the
connections, and you need to stick with a single one.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Spooky" <Spooky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the quick response.

The wirless router I have is g - so I did not want to try and use that for
the media extender set up. I was hoping to maintain a hard-wired
connection
between the 360 and the media center to maximise the ability to stream
movies, etc.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that I cannot connect the
xbox
360 directly to the pc via the ethernet port into the lan card? I was
hoping
to do this in the belief that I could maximise throughput of media to the
extender. The idea being that I already have a perfectly good wireless
internet connection (on a g router) and that I could simply share that
internet connection with the xbox 360 through the ad-hoc wired connection.
The reason for not using the xbox 360 wirless connection was two-fold -
firstly my house has extremely thick old walls and secondly... I did not
want
to spend more money on a network adaptor and the 360 wireless receiver...

Sorry to drag this out, but I would appreciate some clarification before I
revisit my setup (which did work beautifully for a short time).

"Chris H." wrote:

Sounds like you're mixing apples and oranges, Spooky. Drop off the wired
connection directly to the PC and do the setup through your wireless.
The
way it is you're trying to use an ad-hoc connection (wired to the PC) at
the
same time as having the good Internet connection.

Conversely, if you want to be wired, you need to use Internet Connection
Sharing on the PC, hosting the Internet connection for the Xbox 360, and
drop the wireless. Your PC will need to be on at all times you want to
play
on Xbox Live! with this setup, however.

Choose a single path, and stay with it. Here's a good run-down of
setting
things up: http://forums.xbox.com/1076872/ShowPost.aspx
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Spooky" <Spooky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have seen many people have had similar problems and I have read
everything
I can find, tried everything advised and a few other things besides...
here
is the problem:

System:
HP 7350 (new)
Belkin Wireless router (g)
Belkin wireless g desktop pci card
xbox 360
Devolo highspeed powerline adapters (2)
Media center 2005 Rollup 2
.Net framework 1.1 with Service Pack 1 already installed (although I
cannot
see it listed as an update in "Add/Remove Programes" (trying to install
service pack 1 I get told that it is already installed)

Set up:
Wireless connection for internet access
Lan connection to xbox 360 via ethernet cable from pc lan card (intel -
standard with system) into a powerline adapter, with the xbox 360
having a
connection via ethernet cable to another powerline adapter.
Internet connection sharing enable on the wireless adapter
Media center has been set up and works on the pc.
Windows media extender has been installed.

The problem:
After much annoyance, things did work and everything was streaming
through
the system without a glitch... once... and only once... As this worked
I
know that my current problems are nothing to do with the wired network
speed.

From the xbox 360 - it can get an IP and it can connect to xbox live -
therefore I know (I think) that the xbox 360 is seeing the pc,
otherwise
it
presumably could not get itself an ip address. If I test the connection
it
fails to find computer.

From the pc, media extender cannot see the xbox 360 on the network.

So, they simply will not see each other on the network.

My system had Norton installed - I uninstalled this before first
running
media center extender.

I have set the windows firewall ports as suggested (1900/upnp,
3390/Remote
Media Center Experience, 3776/Media Center Extender Service, 5555/Media
Streaming, 7777/Network Validation), all required services appear to be
working - but this will still not work.

To make things entirely clear, the connection to the xbox 360 is not
going
through my router - it goes out of the lan card, through the power
supply
and
into the xbox 360 - and I have tried a direct wired connection with no
difference in results.

Can someone PLEASE assist with this, as I have spent ages researching,
making changes, re-installing and starting again, and I appear to be
getting
nowhere.

Thanks in advance.





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