Hi everyone, im going out of my mind trying to get live working again...

The other day i took my laptop to my mates and we tried to connect it to his via an ehthernet cable....with no luck as we didnt know how to do it. So i got back with my laptop and tried to sign into live as i usually do.... whats this? IP address: Failed. I normally always passes....... and usually when i connect the cable and power up the 360, the PC acknowledges a fine connection....now it says " limited or no connectivity " i looked around on google for a solution and changed my laptops IP from Auto to manual and set:

IP: 192.168.1.8
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

success..... the pc acknowledges a fine connection once again....but wait a minute...... i run the connection test via the 360 yet it still fails on IP address.

The 360's IP was set to auto as: IP: 169.254.124.149, Subnet: 255.255.0.0 and it was failing.... so i tried some suggested IP's i found for the 360 on google eg;

192.168.0.2
192.168.1.3
192.168.1.103
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.121
etc....

Still fails. so now, im stuck

I would be very greatful if anyone could help me

Hey there djdave and welcome to the forums.

Did you use a cross over ethernet cable?

When you connect two PC's or laptops together without a hub/router you need to use cross over cables.
If you are using a hub/router then you can use the standard ethernet cable.


Could you try the following:

Set the IP on your laptop to 192.168.0.1
Then set the IP on the Xbox 360 to 192.168.0.2
Subnet of 255.255.255.0 on both.

If the 360 allows you to manual set the primary DNS address then you can use 192.168.0.1

Now when the connection pops up, open your network connection and go to the properties of it.
Disable the windows firewall on that connection.
(can be found in the Advanced section - Windows firewall settings.)

• Are you using a different ethernet cable at home?

Let us know if this helps.

Unfortunately those settings dont work either... it was a cross over cable i was using to link to my mates laptop but im not sure which one this one is for live.... its worked before and it came with the 360 anyway so it should work anyway.

Alright so we can rule out a cable problem.

I know I have nightmares trying to connect my old Xbox to the PC, somedays it works and then other times it doesn't. Security updates tend to cause hassles with these connections at times.

Right could you explain how you are connecting your 360 to the PC, is it connecting to a network card in your machine which is in turn sharing your internet connection?
Or are you connecting it to a router?

One thing you need to be careful about is when you change the IP on the PC, I assume you have a USB connection coming into the laptop for the internet connection, you need to make sure you are changing the IP for the network card that connects to your 360. You don't wanna play with the other setting.
Should normally be "Local Connection 2"

If it worked previously then we shouldn't really need to mess around with IP's and the likes so lets try the following.

Change both the PC and the 360's IP to automatic detect. Then power down both systems.
Now turn the PC on and get into windows, once there turn the 360 on and see if you can connect.
If it doesn't work then try it the other way round, so turn the 360 on first and then the PC.

It's an ICS connection which goes as follows:

Xbox 360 > Ethernet > Onboard Ethernet NIC > Internet

And the internet is connected:

Phone line > USB ADSL Modem > USB > PC

ICS is configured fine as it is.... what realy puzzles me is the connection has had no settings changed really..... i simply tried to connect to another laptop which didn even happen anyway.....

When the IP is set to Auto on the laptop, the laptop doesnt aknowledge a connection to the 360, it says aquiring network address then limited or no connectivity.

With the laptop i can get the laptop to connect by manually asigning an IP but with the 360 on auto OR manual i cant get it to connect so basicly the laptop sees the 360 but the 360 doesnt see the laptop.