Shane
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right ive been having problems connecting the xbox to the laptop so i can go on xbox live.
ive got the old rj-45 lead
when doing a test it passes the ip address (which i manually entered)
then it get to DNS and fails,
anyone got any ideas, ive tried everything on the xbox website, and done a couple of searches and found nothing
can anyone shed any light
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Voyto
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what IP address are you manually putting in?
try entering 208.67.222.222 for your dns
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
what IP address are you manually putting in?
try entering 208.67.222.222 for your dns
why? 
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pow
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You need to enter the DNS address of either the IP your router or your ISP
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Toby
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go start progs, run then type in the box CMD, then type ipconfig when the black screen comes and hit enter it will tell you the DNS on that page and then after you have it just type exit/end and hit
[Edited on 17-08-2008 by CorsaB4ever]
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Voyto
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
what IP address are you manually putting in?
try entering 208.67.222.222 for your dns
why?
why what? 
that address i gave is for a secure public dns server
http://www.opendns.com 
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FruitBooTeR
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Set it to obtain everything automaticly, much much easier 
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Shane
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quote:
Originally posted by FruitBooTeR
Set it to obtain everything automaticly, much much easier
if i do that it fails everything
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
what IP address are you manually putting in?
try entering 208.67.222.222 for your dns
why?
why what?
that address i gave is for a secure public dns server
http://www.opendns.com
he is going through a router though.
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Russ
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what router you using Shane
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Voyto
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
what IP address are you manually putting in?
try entering 208.67.222.222 for your dns
why?
why what?
that address i gave is for a secure public dns server
http://www.opendns.com
he is going through a router though.
will still work the same way you can manually set your dns - you dont have to use what the router suggests
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ed
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As Voyto says...
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Paul_J
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Vista is gay.
I had XP on my laptop and it used to connect fine through connection sharing.
However, now my laptop has vista it's causing all sorts of problems on XBL.
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Vista is gay.
I had XP on my laptop and it used to connect fine through connection sharing.
However, now my laptop has vista it's causing all sorts of problems on XBL.
mr computer science degree, vista is not gay, you are. 
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
what IP address are you manually putting in?
try entering 208.67.222.222 for your dns
why?
why what?
that address i gave is for a secure public dns server
http://www.opendns.com
he is going through a router though.
will still work the same way you can manually set your dns - you dont have to use what the router suggests
but he'd need to change it router side not xbox side
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PaulW
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Vista is gay.
I had XP on my laptop and it used to connect fine through connection sharing.
However, now my laptop has vista it's causing all sorts of problems on XBL.
mr computer science degree, vista is not gay, you are.
Vista is the biggest pile of wank microsoft have ever released...
It's up there with WindowsMe...
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John
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That's complete rubbish though, vista is far superior in many ways.
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PaulW
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and if your plugged directly into the router and not getting an IP address, make sure that the MAC address of the Xbox is entered into the filter list if you have MAC filtering turned on...
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andy1868
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
but he'd need to change it router side not xbox side
he could change it router side, but doesn't need to.
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by andy1868
quote:
Originally posted by Russ
but he'd need to change it router side not xbox side
he could change it router side, but doesn't need to.
oh right, well there you go 
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Vista is gay.
I had XP on my laptop and it used to connect fine through connection sharing.
However, now my laptop has vista it's causing all sorts of problems on XBL.
mr computer science degree, vista is not gay, you are.
Vista is the biggest pile of wank microsoft have ever released...
It's up there with WindowsMe...
another non user
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Vista is gay.
I had XP on my laptop and it used to connect fine through connection sharing.
However, now my laptop has vista it's causing all sorts of problems on XBL.
mr computer science degree, vista is not gay, you are.
I think you'll find it is. It has its merits, but falls down for the fact everything and every screen is setup for a typical dumb user (e.g. you). Therefore everything is pretty colours, huge icons and stupid menu systems that lead you round the houses to get to what you want to change (assuming that you'd be too dumb to actually want to change anything substaintial).
At least in XP you could have the settings up for your LAN connection within like 2 clicks. With vista, it leads you through a selection of annoying screens that require you to click through one by one completely unrelated to the task you want to achieve, in order to get access to something that looks more familiar (i.e. not designed like a fisher price toy).
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John
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Turn all that off then and stop crying about it, it's actually quite a good system when you get used to it, I had the same reservations.
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Paul_J
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oh yeh and another thing that annoys me about vista is how it does things for you, assuming you want it done without asking or telling.
For example, I've switched off my firewall and I'm now enabling ICS...
WTF, my firewall has been switched on along with file sharing and this and that...
ok ... turn firewall off again...
turn off file sharing and - wtf it turns firewall back on!
I said I want it off 
etc.
To be honest I haven't really looked at why mine isn't working yet, just expected it to work when i plugged it in like it did in XP. I'll have a butchers tommorrow, but vista just winds me up.
[Edited on 18-08-2008 by Paul_J]
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Turn all that off then and stop crying about it, it's actually quite a good system when you get used to it, I had the same reservations.
Not been using vista for long (I removed it from my laptop before and put XP on) my new laptop had vista on it again and I cba to put xp back on.
I was enjoying Vista, but I just hate the way it feels like it treats you like a idiotic child.
How do you disable retarded mode in vista?
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