Internet Sharing & Xbox live

TheMonarch · Nov 23, 2005

OK, so I enabled internet sharing on my Mac (Share Airport to built-in ethernet). Got an ethernet cable, connected my xbox to my Mac... But my Xbox won't connect...

Did I do something wrong? How do I get this to work? I want to be able to move my xbox from room to room...

BTW, I have DSL

Thanks.

shadowmoses · Nov 23, 2005

Do the following and give it a go:

CHange your IP to: 192.168.2.2
Change Gateway to: 192.168.2.1

And configure your DNS correctly (this is different from computer to computer)

Then give it a go, should work...

SHadow

satans_banjo · Nov 23, 2005

the way i did it was i used the ethernet cable to connect my xbox to my router

if your router is too far away you'll have to invest in a wireless adapter

Josh396 · Nov 23, 2005

satans_banjo said:

the way i did it was i used the ethernet cable to connect my xbox to my router

if your router is too far away you'll have to invest in a wireless adapter
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He should just be able to connect the XBOX to his mac and go from there.

TheMonarch · Nov 24, 2005

Got it worked out...

A little complicated, but it works...

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I just did the same thing (substitute powerbook for G4) for my brother. The xbox seems to have difficulty obtaining an address from the dhcp server that is started on the Mac as part of the 'share my internet' process. I don't think it's necessary, but I set the ethernet port to "Configure IPV4: Off". I then started internet sharing and checked the IP assigned to the ethernet port (in terminal.app, type "ifconfig en0" [zero, not a capital-o] and it will return the info about the config of the built-in ethernet. On my machine it returns "inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255". I believe OSX always uses 192.168.2.1 but it would be best to check rather than just assuming.

On the xbox, set
IP Configuration: Manual
IP: 192.168.2.2
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router/Gateway: 192.168.2.1 [or the address returned from the ifconfig command above if it's different]

DNS Configuration: Manual
[enter the IPs of the dns servers provided by SBC] They should be in the documentation and likely in your router config. If you can't find them, type "dig" in terminal.app and after a bunch of text scrolls by, you'll have a line starting with "SERVER" near the bottom, the IP address in that line is the DNS server your computer is using, so you can enter the same in the xbox settings.
PPPoE Settings: Off
Advanced: Automatic

You should now be able to connect to xbox-live.
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shadowmoses · Nov 24, 2005

Glad you got it working i'll add you to my freinds list my gamertag is cab00,

Shadow

TheMonarch · Nov 24, 2005

shadowmoses said:

Glad you got it working i'll add you to my freinds list my gamertag is cab00,

Shadow
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Great. I look forward to playing with/against you

Anyone else want to share their GamerTag, bring it on...

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