Xbox 360 - Xbox 360 cat5 multiplayer

jasjnr

Hi,
A few friends and I are looking to have a good old xbox night. What we have is two xbox360s, one router, two lenghts of cat5 cable, two displays, two amplifiers, and 4 controllers. So what we want is two vs two in GOW or GOW2 or any other shoot 'em up. Does anyone have any experience with this or have any known problems? I know we could play 4 person split screen on one display but the fact we have the list of stuff above having it on two screens would be pretty cool.
Any help would be appreciated
J

TheTubes

tbh i have'nt tried it but was thinking about doing the same thing with a friend of mine.
I think it should work, just select the local network option.
let us know how it goes.

neilk32

all ya have to do with only two xbox's is plug the ethernet cable from one to the other.

jasjnr

Sweet! I just went down to Smyths and got GOW2. On the back it does say system link. So I'll give it a crack tonight and let ye know what happens.
Cheers for the help,
J

Riesen_Meal

Was only doing this last night with Halo 3!

What we used was a crossover cable to do it, its a cat 5 "crosswired" network cable, should get one in maplins handy enough!

If you dont have one of them id say a router with over 2 ethernet ports on it should do the trick.....

Hope this helps!

jasjnr

Worked a treat. Very easy to set up. Didn't need cross over cable or a router just normal cat5 plugged into each xbox360. On the game one xbox is the host and the other joins the party to play (for GOW2 anyway).
J

Star Lord

Yeah, the 360 can use either crossover or standard network cable without any issues.

ShiverinEskimo

The days of the crossover cable are over now that most network controllers come with the software to handle the straight-through 1-on-1 connections.