Help an idiot

Melion

Right, moved into a house yesterday. 3mb wireless Eircom broadband. Want to get the 360 live, what do i need to do?

Can someone walk me through exactly what ill need

Antigone05

get a xbox 360.

either buy in store a xbox live subscription or use your credit card through your console online.

turn on the xbox 360


there you go

Ciaran500

Plug cable from modem into 360, create account, enjoy 1 month free live.


Or you can buy the wireless adapter.

Clover

you should get one month xbox live gold when you set your gamertag up for xbox live for the first time and then just pick up a prepaid card in one of the shops around : game / gamestop / hmv / virgin / smyths / xtravision... .

you can connect to xbox live either with a silver or gold account but only gold will let you play game over live and also some demo's are gold only for a short time.

seen as your with eircom , set your firewall to low and there are also the ports xbox live needs open in a drop down list .

go into the system blade on your 360 then click on network settings and run the test xbox live , once thats finished you want it to be showing you as connected to live but also as having an open nat .

if you don't get the one month gold give us a shout and i'll pm you a 48 hour code to get you started.

Melion

Right, should have said. I want it to connect wirelessly so obviously need the adaptor. Ill be going into GameStop in a while, ill ask them about those prepaid cards.

Clover

Melion wrote:

Right, should have said. I want it to connect wirelessly so obviously need the adaptor. Ill be going into GameStop in a while, ill ask them about those prepaid cards.

i picked up a second hand wireless adaptor in gamestop for about half the price as a new one , ask if they have any as it may save you around €40 .

Branoic

How do you (or can you?) change the NAT settings from "Strict" and what difference does it make? I'm connected through 3mbs Digiweb and the NAT is always Strict. Live seems to work fine with it though.

Asmodean

You don't need the wireless adapter if you have a laptop or a pc with a wireless connection, you just hook the console to the said computer and confogure your network settings to allow a shared net connection.

gamer

Go to xbox.com ,see xbox live/ help.Its easier to set up an account online wth ms first,then plug the net cable into xbox network port, go set up xbox live,let it find all dhcp, ip settings automatically.TAKES about 5minutes.THINK of a gamertag, be4 you start.Get everything working ,first play a game on live, then try setting up a wifi connection.Typing all the info from the 360 virtual keyboard takes ages, if you dont follow my advice.

bucks73

If you setup an account online first dont you miss out on the 1 month free gold?

jester77

bucks73 wrote:

If you setup an account online first dont you miss out on the 1 month free gold?

Yeah, the account has to be created on the 360 to get the free 1 month.

T-b0n3

Dont mean to rob thread but was trying to set up my friends free month last nite. Said it needed an update to continue onto LIVE but it wouldnt download it. Keep getting error. It told me to run the test in 'system' and I did. Passed all the things then when it gets to the 'xbox live' one it says needs update and fails again. Any ideas anyone?? Thanks...

I just want to play pes 2008 demo

neacy69

T-b0n3 wrote:

Dont mean to rob thread but was trying to set up my friends free month last nite. Said it needed an update to continue onto LIVE but it wouldnt download it. Keep getting error. It told me to run the test in 'system' and I did. Passed all the things then when it gets to the 'xbox live' one it says needs update and fails again. Any ideas anyone?? Thanks...

I just want to play pes 2008 demo

most likely firewall settings and ports need to be opened on your router. Who is your ISP?

T-b0n3

Its my friends but fairly sure its eircom. Whats the easiest way to go about doing all that??

Thanks...

neacy69

if its eircom then use http://www.portforward.com/cports.htm to open the ports on the router and then while your still in the router config page change the firewall settings to low

T-b0n3

Ok thanks neacy69, ill try that later when im in his and let you know.

Thanks again.

And sorry for semi hi-jacking thread!!

Kimbot

I was getting that error over the weekend and I was just a case of restarting the machine a few times until it did download it!!

Riesen_Meal

jonny24ie wrote:

I was getting that error over the weekend and I was just a case of restarting the machine a few times until it did download it!!

Nah its defo a firewall thing, (on Eircom) I had the same problem, so did my cousin, if you go into 192.168.1.254 and go to the ports part, in the drop-down you have to allow Upnp and theres an option for Xbox live....