SetoN

Morning all,

Over the last week I have been atempting to connect my Xbox to my wireless router via the wireless usb adaptor with no success.

I have normally 2 or 3 out of 4 bars of signal to my router, When searching for devices and I find my router and can select it.

I have manually entered the IP and gateway etc inc the mac address.

Regarding the I.P address i have used the one my router has assigned, not my internet I.P address.

When connecting via cable into my router it works no problems.

Then doing an xbox live test I can not make it past the first stage it errors straight away.

I have tried connecting with a WEP set and without both unsuccessful.

Has anyone been successful connecting to a wireless router without full (4 bars) of signal so I can rule out this as a problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

SetoN

bish667

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I use a bt homehub (crap i know).
At times i lose connection for no reason.
When I run the tests on the xbox it cant find the homehub.
To get it back on I have to change the wireless channel on the hub and it will then pick it up ok.
I've been using it for just over a year and this has happened 3 times which isn't too bad.
Not sure if this has anything to do with your issue tho but thought I'd offer my experience with this.

Iain Young

This can happen if you have a lot of people around you (neighbouring houses etc) with wireless routers etc on the same channel as you are using. Try changing it.

SetoN

Good advice, will try that as soon as i get home from work. I presume you mean via the routers admin setting?

Any other advise/ sugestions would be great. Tonight I am dedicating myself fully to solving this

SetoN

mart360

Can of worms mode...........


OPEN


Can of worms mode..........


When you say USB adaptor, do you mean the Xbox dedicated wireless

adaptor??


Starting from scratch, right from the top, you could try the following

(appolgies if youve done all this before)

Computer..
Turn off firewall ... (it may be blocking the xbox)

Router..
Disable any WEP or other type of encryption..

Make sure your SSID is being broadcast, and you know what it is, you may
have the same SSID as your next door neighbor, (not uncommon for

netgear stuff lol)

Change to a channel not being used by your neighbors

Set a fixed ip address for the xbox, then you know what it is, when it appears..

XBOX.

Go to the system settings, and select automatic set up, this should find

the router

Connect to the router, and see if you can access the web/ live,

if it works, job done (partly )

Then you need to back to the router and assign the WEP or other

encryption key, then go back to the xbox and enter the key to allow the

xbox to talk to the router


If Automatic mode dosent work..

You will need your routers

SSID (broadcast name... netgear xxx / bebox or other)

IP address ... usually 192.168.xx.xx

Gateway/ subnet ..... 255.255.255.0 (you need to check)

then enter these manually into the xbox setup screen..

this will usually work...

you may get a prompt for a wep or other key enter this if required..


Once the router and the xbox start talking, try to access live, if that

works, then your almost there..



Next steps

enable WEP or other encryption on the router...

Enter the same key on the xbox setup screens, it will remember this so

will connect automatically..


Check that you can still access live..

Then re enable you firewall.

If you loose your connection, its more likely that the firewall is blocking

the xbox, just go into the alerts or warning section of the firewall setup

and allow the xbox, or the ip address of the xbox (hence the reason for

using a fixed ip address for the xbox)


once thats done, you should find everthing is ok


Now comes the can of worms bit...

Ive tried several times with the netgear DG stuff to wirelessly stream media

to my xbox with no success. Live was always ok, but streaming was a no

no... i tried 2x netgears with no success..

The Belkin & Thomson routers ive used have been ok and will do streaming

& live for me no probs..

Yet other people use netgears with no probs!

anyway hope this helps and i haven't bored you to death

Mart

SetoN

Mart thats brilliant thank you! 100% more helpfull than the official xbox F.A.Q's I could find.

I did intend to spend last night sorting this but as always something came up.

I have some time tonight to looks at this so fingers crossed.

Cheers,

SetoN

urban

iTrader: (1)

I know it doesn't really help now, but a wireless access point is a much better solution that those specific microsoft xbox things
Plus you can use if for something else, its cheaper - and dead easy to setup too
Just a thought if you can sell that USB stick thing

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

cheaper maybe but easier.... not a chance. The issue here will be PC/router side.

SetoN

no luck.

I should note, If I run a cable from my xbox to the router and have all the xbox settings on automatic then it works straight away. (its a very long cable!! not at all practicle)

does that eliminate anything?

Im going through the channels from 1-13 and so far no joy. D-link airplus G router.

and yes the wireless decive from the xbox is the standard dedicated wireless adapter.

running out and ideas

SetoN

urban

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I've my sons xbox connected with a netgear wireless access point to a netgear DG wireless router - no problems.

One mans medicine..................

mart360

??

your connecting via a netgear wireless access point to a NG router... !

The setup in question is an xbox wireless dongle to a NG router..

for me that didnt work

Mart

urban

iTrader: (1)

I know what the current setup is.
I was just stating that I'd done it differently and avoided using that overpriced microsoft dongle