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Subject: Li'l help? Please?
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Hey, erm, I'm pretty sure this should go somewhere else, but quite frankly, I don't know anyone on the other threads. I don't trust them. That, and the majority of them are idiots.

So, here's my problem:
I finally got something to hook up my Xbox to Xbox Live with--the way my internet and house is setup is quite weird, indeed. We have no home network, and our cable modem is by my TV, so we have a wireless router. My computer has the little receiver, on the other side of the house on our main level. Now, my Xbox is hooked up to the TV in my basement. I need a 160 foot Cat5 cord to connect my Xbox on the bottom floor to the TV on the top. I was thrilled when my friend made one that worked. Eagerly, I snapped the cord into the router and then all the way into the basement, where it rested snugly in my 'Box. I turned it on, the anticpation of the awesome of Xbox live giving me the jitters. As it was signing in to Xbox Live, my hopes were high. However, they soon fell.

See, it had a problem with the DNS server thingie. My friend Brad told me that this had happened to him, as well. We decided to take a new approach, and have a direct connection going into the Xbox from the Modem, instead of going from the Modem to the Router to the 'Box. Still, the same problem. We reset the Modem and Router and Xbox several times. Nothing worked. We tried to turn the Automatic DNS options on and off in the hopes that they would somehow reset. It was in vain.

So, here's where my request for help comes in. Does anyone know what's wrong? How this can be fixed? How a poor, innocent boy can get his Xbox Live, so his mind can be sodomized by the filthy language and -blam!- innuendos?

Any and all help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Edited on 12/22/2004 11:43:46 PM]

  • 12.22.2004 11:41 PM PDT
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Nope, I honestly haven't tried that. That thought never even entered my mind.

  • 12.22.2004 11:57 PM PDT
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try calling xbox live support. what i think is u mest up in the options of xbox live u have to go into xbox live and change the dns thing into automatic i cant explain very well because i dont have xbox live

  • 12.22.2004 11:59 PM PDT
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i had this problem, i had my comp router and a new 1 i got just 4 live, with the new 1 it kept saying the dns thing but then i tried w my comp router, so now ive got new router on comp, old 1 in my xbox.

your router is probably not compatible with xbox live, you need a new one

  • 12.23.2004 12:37 AM PDT
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ya i think hes right what type of router u using?? I think the linkys is good

  • 12.23.2004 12:50 AM PDT
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It's a Netgear.

  • 12.23.2004 10:45 AM PDT
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if u have enough money buy a router thats known to work for xbox live

  • 12.26.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Call 1-800-4-MY-XBOX (Canada and USA) and talk to them about your problem. Some of the operators wouldn't know what the letters "PC" ment, but most are quite helpful.

  • 12.26.2004 3:13 PM PDT