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kingkn8
join:2008-05-26
Bismarck, ND
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I run my test xbox live internet connection then. It gives gives my xbox 360 a ip address, reads the DNS, then it gets to MTU and it fails evertime. Anyone know how to help. Oh yes, I have a direct connection using internet on xp. This is my average speed.
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just2stoned
Just2stoned
join:2006-02-06
Spring Hope, NC
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July 17th, @11:33AM
|  I'm not sure what you are saying in your question.. You have a direct connection to the net on xp...using a wireless alltel access card? Does your access card have an RJ45 out connection on it? Eh, I'm really not sure how you have it set up but if your PC is the only PC using the alltel device for internet then this long write up may help. If you have a modem that can connect directly to your router with a regular RJ45 cable than just ignore this as their is a way easier way to set up what you want.
I don't have an xbox 360 but I do have a Playstation 3. I had absolutely no problem setting my network up using my alltel wireless signal. I used ICS(internet connection sharing) to do it. It may sound like it's complicated but really isn't. Since my access card is USB and I need to share it with the rest of the house, I have to use ICS(i'm not buying a new router when mine works fine. Linksys WRT300N). Here is a basic FAQ on how you might set up your connection and get your xbox online however I DO NOT know how the NIC on the 360 works or how to set it up but my method should be fairly easy to understand. Also keep in mind this method requires a PC to be on and connected to alltel to work since it will be sharing your PC's connection.
1. If you have a router already(kinda need one for ICS to work anyway), log into it and disable DHCP. Make sure the router does NOT have the IP 192.168.0.1. I changed mine to 192.168.0.10
2. On your PC, make sure ICS is enabled. If it isn't, open up a command prompt (or type in cmd in the run menu on XP) and type in: services.msc
This will bring up the services window. Simply scroll down the list and find Internet Connection Sharing. Right click it and enable/start it. You may have to start/enable some other services that are dependants of ICS. You can check by right clicking ICS > properties > dependencies tab.(some people run into trouble with this, I did, but I know how to fix it if it does not want to start/enable.) If it starts then you are good to go for next step.
3. On your PC you plan to use to share the net, go into network connections and find your alltel connection. Right click it and choose properties. You should now see a window with several tabs at the top. Click the sharing tab and put a check in 'share this computers internet connection'. I also put a check in 'let other users modify this connection' but it's not needed. Click OK, and Ok to the menus until you are back at your network connections window.
You 'should' see your alltel connection change it's name by adding "shared" onto the end of it. If you see this you are good to go for next steps.
4. On your PC that has the alltel connection, right click on your LAN(local area connection) connection and go to it's properties(you should already be here from last step).
On XP choose TCP/IP in the list and open it's properties (IPv4 for vista users.) Click the bubble to set up the connection manually. In the IP address field(top), put in the address: 192.168.0.1. The subnet mask(right below it) should auto fill in 255.255.255.0. Thats it. Click OK to make the changes. Your LAN connection should now be 'identifying network' until it locks in on 'unidentified network'. I'm not sure if you can change this or if really matters but it doesn't to me.
5. You've now got your HOST setup and ready to accept clients. I do not know how the 360's internet connections work but it should work the same as a PC since it is a WindowsCE OS on 360s. All you have to do on client PCs is manually setting up the connections. THis will work for either LAN or wireless connections. I would think the 360 lets you put in ip address... If it doesn't than you should just buy a PS3! hehe. Seriously though the PS3 lets me enter in IP addresses and such so I don't know why a 360 would be any different.
6. On your xbox or any other PC/laptop go into network connections the same as you did on the PC sharing the connection and open up the properties. In the IP address field give it an IP address of your choice. (I have 5 PC's on my network, each client has a different IP address of 192.168.0.10, 0.20, 0.30, etc. DO NOT give it the address 192.168.0.1. ICS uses this IP for sharing so don't use it. The subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0. This is where most people get it wrong....
in the default gateway field, put in the address 192.168.0.1. In the bottom section (DNS) put the address(192.168.0.1)again into the primary DNS field. This is VERY important! If you do not put 0.1 in the DNS field, the clients will not have working internet. It should look like this:
IP address: 192.168.0.?? (give it a unique address)
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
default gateway: 192.168.0.1(this is your PC's address)
Primary DNS: 192.168.0.1(Your PC is the DNS server)
7. Click ok, or whatever you have to do to finalize these settings. Once again I am not sure how the 360 does it's connections but this method will work for any PC client or device that can use internet. If you use the IP address scheme I wrote above it should work and you should be able to go online with your 360.
This isn't the most optimal setup by any means but it has worked for me with little trouble in the past. For me I had trouble getting the ICS service to start on my Vista ultimate 64bit machine. it took a reinstall of the OS to get it to start(hopefully this doesn't happen to anyone). If for some reason your ICS stops working the procedure to 'reboot' it is easy.
1. Uncheck 'share this connection..." on the HOST PC in the network connections under the sharing tab.
2. Stop the ICS service (reverse of starting it)
3. Reboot PC.
4. Reboot PC again (1 restart for some reason doesn't fix it)
5. After 2nd reboot, restart ICS in services and re-check the 'share this connection...' in the network connections sharing tab window.
6. It should be working correctly again.
This only happened to me once in the many years I've used ICS so it's pretty reliable. If anyone disagree's with or wants to add to this reply, feel free. I don't claim to be an expert by any means but I know a little somethin somethin.
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megan167
join:2008-07-16
| This has *nothing* to do with Xbox Live or PS3, but I used your instructions to set up wireless connection for my laptop to access. Laptop is now connected wirelessly to the router, but will not connect to the internet. The only difference between my settings and yours that I can see is that my IP address is 192.168.1.1 rather than ....0.1, but that seems to be the default on my router, for whatever reason. Help? | |
just2stoned
Just2stoned
join:2006-02-06
Spring Hope, NC
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July 17th, @11:06AM
| Ok, this is for Vista users and I'm showing a Linksys WRT300N, but it's essentially the same for XP and other brands of routers.
The fields circled in red(yah so I suck at MSpaint) are the important ones. The IP address of the router must NOT be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.xxx. Although it may work using the 1.1 ending, it would change my whole write up around. It's an easy change. *NOTE* when you change this IP address and hit save at the bottom a window will pop up saying you saved your changes but it won't let you back to the router. Remember that you just changed it to 192.168.0.xx so you'll have to login to the router again using the new IP address.
*NOTE* default settings to get into the WRT300N is username: admin Pass: no password
Since you already enabled ICS, I can skip ahead to the important junk.
From the system tray, right click your internet icon(2 computers with green globe in bottom right corner) and choose 'network and sharing center' which will bring you to the next screen.
You should now be here. From the left, choose 'mange network connections' and it will look like this.
You should see a 'shared' at the end of the alltel connection. If you don't, right click the connection, properties, and choose the sharing tab. You should have a check in teh box shown in the pic. If the sharing tab is not present than you haven't enabled/started the ICS service. Since I'm replying to someone who has it started, I am skipping that part. If it is shared then go ahead and hit ok to get back to network connections window.
This part is setting up the HOST machine. Right click your LAN connection and choose properties. It should bring up a window like this. Choose the highlighted protocol (IPv4) and either double click, highlight and click properties, or right click and choose properties. Any way will bring you to the next screen.
This is exactly how your LAN connection should look like. This is where disabling the DHCP on the router comes into play. If you do not disable it it will continue giving your LAN connection an IP other than 192.168.0.1. Sometimes it will work correctly but I have always manually entered in the IP here. All you need here is the 192.168.0.1 in IP field and the subnet mask which will autofill the default in when you hit tab from IP field. Click ok when done here.
Your HOST machine should now be ready to accept clients, but first we have to set up the clients correctly. Make sure you are connected to alltel during all this or their will be no connection (internet) to share.
CLIENT SIDE SETUP
It shouldn't matter which OS the client is using for this part unless it's a win98 machine. On your client computer, open up the network connections the same way you did on the host. It's the same thing for LAN and wireless, whichever you may be using. If it's a vista client, you will choose IPv4 from the protocol list. On XP machines, you would choose TCP/IP. Both OS's will display the same thing. Anyway, here is what a typical client IP scheme should look like:
Next to my little crappily drawn #1 is the IP address of the client. This can be anything you want it to be. Like I stated in my previous post, I used a .10 increment for my clients. My first client is a .20, 2nd a .30, and so on. Just make sure it's not the same as the router. The IP should always be a 192.168.0.xxx. You can use any # between 2-255 here.
My #2 circles show the IP address of 192.168.0.1. This is VERY VERY VERY important. The default gateway and the preferred DNS should BOTH be 192.168.0.1. The reason for this is simple. The host machine has an ip address of 192.168.0.1. Your HOST machine is acting like the gateway to the internet. Basically you are telling it "go to this address to find internet signal.".
You MUST put the same 192.168.0.1 in the preferred DNS field as well. DNS is the domain naming service which translates website NAMES into IP addresses and vice versa (called reverse DNS or something). If you do not put anything here, when you type in www.google.com on the client PC's, you will get a page failed to load. If you used the IP address of google.com the web page would load. You wouldn't want to do that so you need to tell the client that the DNS server is your HOST machine. Don't worry if you are lost at this point. It's not so important that you understand why it works so long as it works right? hehe.
When your screen looks like this, using your own IP address choice of course, then hit ok. The connection should work for a moment or two and then show up as an 'unidentified network'. That's ok though. Give it a minute to do it's thing then go ahead and open up your favorite browser and see if you have internet! (I use opera and firefox mainly, sorry IE u suck!) If your internet is working than congratulations! If it isn't and you need some extra help or want to add to this, feel free to respond although this really isn't the right thread for this write up...
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