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Xbox 360 Media Sharing on a Mixed Network
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Here's the Skinny. My Xbox 360 is hooked up via ethernet cable to my Linksys wired router. Also hooked into this router is a Linksys WAP. My PC receives internet over this wireless connection. However, when I try to set up media sharing between my PC and 360, the 360 is never able to find the PC on the network.
How do I make them play nice?
How do I make them play nice?
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If yes on Vista or Media Center, other more qualified folks can help out.
If just regular old XP or Vista, upgrade to Media Player 11. And then, making sure that both the Xbox and the computer are on, go through the menu items in Media Player 11. You'll find somewhere in there a menu for media sharing. This is off by default - you have the choice to either turn it on for anyone or anything requesting media, or you can selectively turn it on for your Xbox alone - the xbox should show up in a list of detected devices.
Or, you know, TVersity or something.
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I had done this once in the past using media center, since I have XP media center running on my PC.
Since then they've come out with media player 11, and my xbox had to be serviced. I don't try to share media to my xbox very often, so I didn't notice right away it didn't work. When I tried to start media center on my xbox, it went though the normal connection process, as if it had never been connected to a PC before. I followed the instructions on my computer (from www.xbox.com/pcsetup), which actually required me to reinstall media center 2005 rollup update 2, for some reason. After I followed all the steps, my pc thought the xbox was connected, but media center on the xbox would freeze during connection.
I then tried to get media player 11 to work, but it was having trouble seeing the xbox. I thought that might have something to do with installing the media center update again, so I reinstalled media player 11. Then I just followed the directions in the help for media player for sharing media and it worked. The media center option on the xbox still doesn't work, but I can choose my pc as a source for music, pictures, or video from the media frame of the dashboard and share stuff that way, which is all I wanted.
I did learn some things in the process though. There's a network connection option on the system page of the dashboard. Inside that is a test connections option. That checks to see what adapter you're using, then gets an IP, then tries to connect to the PC. It will tell you what step is failing, and it has quite a lot of helpful information on the pc conneting failed option. I'd check there if none of the other responses helped.
One thing it did say is that the pc and xbox have to be on the same subnet. I don't know how exactly the linksys WAP works, but if it works like a router, then it sounds like you have two routers in your network and the pc and xbox are on different ones, which would put you on different subnets. That may be your issue.
I can also recommend not talking to xbox service. I sent them an email about this and I got two responses. They both look like they were generated by a bot that found the word "freeze" in the email and sent a form letter telling me to check the game disk for scratches and make sure the console is well ventilated.
I hope that helps some.