I have an x-box 360 and I am trying to get online. I am using Tiscali broadband and have an external modem. I have connected my 360 to the computer via an ethernet crossover cable.

I have followed every single internet site I can find on the subject but it still ain't working. It looks like my 360 and laptop can't find each other.

I am seriously going mad. Can anyone help?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connectt...dowsics-usb.htm

If you've done that and it still doesn't work, then your doing something wrong.

Nope, tried it and stil ldoesn't work. I've put connection sharing on my Tiscali connection and it still doesn't work. When I test the connection on the 360 it fails at IP address every time.

Can anyone help????

I have been doing this for about 4 hours now. It's probably something really obvious but it just won't work.

It's well known that connecting an X-Box to X-Box Live via a PC is very, very tricky and temperamental.

Does your modem have more than one Ethernet socket? Is it possible to run two cables from the modem, one into your computer and one into your X-Box?

Another thing to try, if you can't do what I suggested above, is take your Ethernet cable out your PC and plug it into your X-Box then try to connect. If it connects, then it's a problem with your PC sending the signal to the X-Box. If it doesn't connect then it's a problem with your X-Box.

Buy a router, problem solved.

Jeez. When I think back to the frustration of trying to do this almost a year ago.

It took me hours of fiddling about with firewall settings and the like to set up the ICS. If I can do it anyone can though. Good luck Standfree.

sorted.

I had one wrong character in some field somewhere.



Hmm......maybe that was the wrong choice of words....