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Having a problem trying to connect my xbox360 to my windows 7 ultimate 32bit PC. I want to be able to directly connect the 2 without the use of a router but neither can find each other on the connection. I have tried a fair amount of different settings and even googled it but still no luck.

Both systems don't have wireless, I do have a router but that is at the other end of the house and I really don't want to run 2 cables though the house and don't want to spend money on wireless crap I don't need.

hmmm double post..

Are you using a crossover cable?
Are the IP addresses conflicting at all?

EDIT: The xbox may not be getting an IP address assigned either.

Can you see what the IP addresses are for the XBOX and the PC?

last edited by Panda at 02:28:16 16/Jan/10

yeah the windows 7 trouble shooter is saying it cant assign an ip and so is the xbox. I have tried giving them both separate manual IP's and then the PC still cant find the xbox and the xbox gives me an error about the mac address possibly being blocked.

what to do?

and yes using a crossover cable.

last edited by eightyeight at 04:40:45 16/Jan/10

go and buy a hub then plug the hub into the router with crossover cable or an uplink port, the plug the hub into pc and another cable to the xbox. then you dont need to keep changing cable or worry about any software issues

i heard you need a 32 bit system.

Try setting up a static IP for your PC and Xbox. Make sure that the PC is set up on the NIC that the crossover cable is plugged into.
Use something easy like:

192.168.2.1 for your NIC
255.255.255.1 subnet

192.168.2.2
255.255.255.2 subnet for your Xbox.


Are you certain it is a Crossover cable? I remember I once bought a Crossover cable from a Useless IT computer store many years ago. After a couple of hours of fail I found out the cable was not a crossover cable, just a normal one...

Are you certain it is a Crossover cable? I remember I once bought a Crossover cable from a Useless IT computer store many years ago. After a couple of hours of fail I found out the cable was not a crossover cable, just a normal one...

This, this belongs in the grinds my gears thread for sure

Why do you have a different subnet for his xbox toll? whenever I network PC's I give them all different IP's but the subnet number is always the same: 255.255.255.0

rofl It was meant to be the same subnet. I usually use 255.255.255.0 too. Just need to make sure it doesn't conflict with his net and whatnot.

I'm assuming his PC doesn't even have the internet since it doesn't appear to be anywhere near the router nor is his xbox so there's no chance of conflicts.

go and buy a hub then plug the hub into the router with crossover cable or an uplink port, the plug the hub into pc and another cable to the xbox. then you dont need to keep changing cable or worry about any software issues

Why would you use a hub these days? Only 1 collision domain on hubs = bad.

maybe you need to bridge the connections?

Sorry did I read it right or did you say you have no wireless and don't want to run cables? Then how would these things connect to one another

i wish xbox 360 the best of luck in the competition......

Sorry did I read it right or did you say you have no wireless and don't want to run cables? Then how would these things connect to one another

He doesn't want to run two cables across the house to the router.

put a valn capable switch (2x$40 linksys wrts w/ ddwrt) at each end and vlan the traffic

1 cable solution

mine worked fine first time using media centre and even just video browsing. you sound like a noob so you should just move your router and turn dhcp on or fork out and buy a wireless adapter

I've got my 360 set up on a wireless bridge running dwt firmware. ASIF pay Microsoft $120 or whatever on their usb wireless stick thing. What a waste.

hey guys after all that it turned out to be a cable fault. changed to another crossover cable and it worked fine.

what a f*** around that was spent hours trying to figure it out.

thanks guys

woot, I mentioned the cable. I win by default.

you do realise that all you needed to do was plug a lan cable into each and bridge the connections

sweet revival noob. turns out that is not what you do either.

well it works for me everytime

so how did you go about doing that,bridging one connection that is?

sorry forgot most of u r using pcs. i us a laptop just to connect to live but i could have a look into it with a pc