Erm - how the hell do I connect an Xbox 360 to the internet?

anonymous_joe

Right, so every time I connect to the internet, I can't connect to Xbox Live because my IP settings can't be detected or something...

What the hell do I do?

I'm sorry if this comes up repeatedly, but bloody hell I'm annoyed.

Nalz

what type of internet do you have? wireless? Is the router nearby? Have you an ethernet cable?

anonymous_joe

Trilla wrote: »

what type of internet do you have? wireless? Is the router nearby? Have you an ethernet cable?

Eircom wireless. Router is in the room beside.

It finds the wireless connection, and connects to it. Then says the IP doesn't work.

Cheshire Cat

We had the same problem. Had to do with the settings. You have to go into the router settings on the eircom page and enable Xbox live. It should work then!

CC

Captain Chaos

You have to set the firewall to low in the router setting too.

anonymous_joe

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

We had the same problem. Had to do with the settings. You have to go into the router settings on the eircom page and enable Xbox live. It should work then!

CC

Captain Chaos wrote: »

You have to set the firewall to low in the router setting too.

Thanks lads. I'll see what I can do. Any idea where I go to do all this stuff?

Captain Chaos

In your web browser address bar, type: 192.168.*.1 and hit enter.

Where I have the *, it could be a 0,1 or 2 so try each to see what lets you into your router settings page.

AdMMM

Don't you mean 192.168.1.254 ? That's the standard Gateway.

anonymous_joe

Eh, how the hell do I enable Xbox live for my Xbox? All it seems to have done is allowed my laptop to enable it, which seems fairly useless. :pac:

Captain Chaos

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Eh, how the hell do I enable Xbox live for my Xbox? All it seems to have done is allowed my laptop to enable it, which seems fairly useless. :pac:

You don't have to mess around with your Xbox settings. It does it all itself, you need to configure your route to let your Xbox to "talk to it".

Your laptop has not enabled anything, you were configuring your router from your laptop.

Captain Chaos

AdMMM wrote: »

Don't you mean 192.168.1.254 ? That's the standard Gateway.

I could be that, I haven't been with Eircom in a few years.

anonymous_joe

Captain Chaos wrote: »

You don't have to mess around with your Xbox settings. It does it all itself, you need to configure your route to let your Xbox to "talk to it".

Your laptop has not enabled anything, you were configuring your router from your laptop.

But where do I enable it? I tried enabling it and nothing's changed...

Captain Chaos

Did you get into your eircom router page by typing in the IP address?

Once you select the Xbox Live option and turn your firewall off or set it to low and save your settings.

Your 360 can detect your Eircom connection, yes? Did it ask you to enter your WEP key into your 360. Did you make sure your WEB was entered correctly case sensitive is very important.

Take a look see at this link and see if it heps you.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055207579

anonymous_joe

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Did you get into your eircom router page by typing in the IP address?

Once you select the Xbox Live option and turn your firewall off or set it to low and save your settings.

Your 360 can detect your Eircom connection, yes? Did it ask you to enter your WEP key into your 360. Did you make sure your WEB was entered correctly case sensitive is very important.

Take a look see at this link and see if it heps you.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055207579

WEP key's just the wireless password right?

Done the rest of that anyway.

It detects my eircom connection, the firewall's low and the WEP's in. Still nothing.

Captain Chaos

When you test the connection on the Xbox, at what part does it say that it's failing on?

anonymous_joe

Captain Chaos wrote: »

When you test the connection on the Xbox, at what part does it say that it's failing on?

So far the first step.

I've seen a few things online, and here, which I'll try when I get back from tonight's drunken festivities. (Hangovers and technology based frustration, a great combo :P)

Thanks for the advice though, lads, I'll get back to you with any success I have. And of course, open to any other suggestions.

deelite

We had this problem twice once connecting to Eircom and then connecting to NTL. Telephone XBox live 1-800-5091861 - they will talk you through everything. Secondly if you ring Eircom they do all that stuff for you like turning your firewalls on/off. And thirdly we finally got it working by restoring the factory settings on the XBox.

Hope this is some help to you

anonymous_joe

deelite wrote: »

We had this problem twice once connecting to Eircom and then connecting to NTL. Telephone XBox live 1-800-5091861 - they will talk you through everything. Secondly if you ring Eircom they do all that stuff for you like turning your firewalls on/off. And thirdly we finally got it working by restoring the factory settings on the XBox.

Hope this is some help to you

Looks like I've an exciting Friday off college ahead of me. :pac:

warrior00

Okay i know u might already have done this but if not it will work. what u do is type ur broadband user name and password in the xbox dashboard. if u dont have them ring ur ISP and they will give them to u.

Gadget.Repair

Captain Chaos wrote: »

When you test the connection on the Xbox, at what part does it say that it's failing on?

I had the same problem when i started xbox live i rang up eircom and they talked me through all the settings etc.

If you have not got it working yet ring them and they'll help and get you online

anonymous_joe

Woohoo. Turns out I'm retarded and put in the wrong name for my eircom account.

Limerick Dude

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Woohoo. Turns out I'm retarded and put in the wrong name for my eircom account.

FAIL

anonymous_joe

Verging on epic fail. But I'll survive.