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Connecting 360 to media centre laptop with supplied patch cable??

  • 16-07-2006 6:52pm
    #1
    bazcaz
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    I am trying to connect my media centre laptop directly to my 360 via the patch cable I got with the 360 and using static ip's.

    I have been having a bit of difficulty with this and I was wondering if anyone could help me???

    I know that generally you would use a crossover cable for this connection but ive been led to believe that it can also be done with the supplied cable??

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Nearly sure its only a crossover cable, never heard anything bout the supplied cable working, anyone else with Media Centre?

    It would make sense if the 2 of them are to connect together.....

    Sorry, I aint to good when it comes to these things but ill salvage a guess....


  • #3
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,200 ✭✭✭kensutz


    Afaik you need a crossover cable for it to work.


  • #4
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    kensutz wrote:
    Afaik you need a crossover cable for it to work.

    the suppied cable will work fine indeed as that one was too long for my purpose i'm using a 1meter patch cable.

    I'm not doing exactly what ur doing but this might help you.

    I was too tight to buy a wireless adaptor so i basically just connected the xbox to my pc with the cable as pc is wireless.

    My pc is not media centre but all i basically did was set the network settings on the 360 to defaults to get it to connect to the pc.

    On the pc side which my not apply to you, i shared the wireless connection (so i cound access xbox live- which works perfectly) and disabled windows firewall

    also see here http://www.xbox.com:80/en-US/pcsetup/default.htm


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