Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Re: [Xbox] Help! Cannot get wireless adaptor to work on xbox 360 elite

Dave the grandson just now produced a book that came with the Wireless Adaptor and "no" I have not read it, did not even know he had one.
 
I will now take a few minutes and read it and see what it says, might find the answer in the book, I will let you know.
 
Paul
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Xbox] Help! Cannot get wireless adaptor to work on xbox 360 elite

Gotcha, that last picture shows the one that hasn't been used lately
because it and the 360 say 'Inactive' on them. Were there instructions
with the wireless adapter you got with the 360 Elite system? If so,
while everything was turned on did anyone follow those and see why it
won't change that status light? Gotta be something that needs to be
done to the adapter first to get it to link up right...

There's a wireless settings off to the right there, click on Edit Settings
for that and get one more screenshot so we can view the wireless
channel and other settings... Could be that the adapter is set to one
channel and your 2Wire router is on another OR even something else
on the channel selected if they're the same that's causing interference
but I'd think not because you've had other wireless connections work
properly.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Paul Maples <paulmaples@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Dave I currently have a large Sony Desktop in the Living Room that I am on
> now. It is direct connected to the Home Portal via Ethernet. My oldest
> Grandson, 18 years old, has his Laptop in his bedroom and he is connected
> via wireless off of the home portal. I did have another laptop for my
> younger grandson in another bedroom but he no longer has his laptop so my
> Home Network right now consists of just my desktop and one laptop which is
> connected via wireless.
>
> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: PSCG Cleveland
> To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xbox] Help! Cannot get wireless adaptor to work on xbox 360
> elite
>
> The main page should show connections the status of the router, look
> to the bottom left for the Home Network connections to see if the 360's
> listed there. Odds on favorite it'll just refer to it by an IP address, the
> other connections should have names matching whatever you called any
> other PC's connected to the network.
>
> In the lower right click on 'View Home Network' to be able to see a
> larger display of all the stuff connected. That should show the 360 by
> the same IP address and hopefully at least say 'Inactive'.
>
> To the lower right of this screen should be the Wireless Status and
> Edit Settings areas, you'll need the password to get in there that should
> be included with your Router. If you can click on Edit Settings that'll
> take you to the page with all the configurations that one of the skilled
> folks you mentioned should need to hopefully troubleshoot and get that
> connection working!
>
> It certainly sounds like it's just some security blockages you can fix
> and/or some configuration stuff to be monkeyed with. But sadly some
> of it's not that easy to debug over a group like this, luckily you have a
> couple knowledgeable people to give you a hand!
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Paul Maples <paulmaples@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>> Could you walk me through what to do when I open this page. I can open it
>> but once it is open I am lost as to what to do next.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: PSCG Cleveland
>> To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Xbox] Help! Cannot get wireless adaptor to work on xbox 360
>> elite
>>
>> Well then the next thing would be to point a browser on the PC to:
>>
>> http://gateway.2wire.net
>>
>> to get into the Router's Admin pages and see if it 'sees' the 360 at
>> all while the wireless adapter is plugged into the 360 and then you
>> can determine if there's a way to allow the connection to happen.
>> Again there's a MAC address on the adapter that may need to be
>> put into the Router's admin panels so that the Router allows the
>> connection to pass and hopefully solve the problem.
>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Maples <paulmaples@sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>> Everything works great with direct connected with the Ethernet cable.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: PSCG Cleveland
>>> To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Xbox] Help! Cannot get wireless adaptor to work on xbox 360
>>> elite
>>>
>>> Before the thread gets too deep, congrats on taking the plunge!
>>> Another over 22 guy around here never hurts. <Grin>
>>>
>>> Did you try plugging the 360 directly by Ethernet into that router
>>> and see if it even recognizes that connection? Almost sounds
>>> like a communications problem with the 360 until you test and
>>> troubleshoot that out of the way, reason I say that is that you're
>>> not getting anything from the PC but you didn't say if you did
>>> with a working Ethernet hookup. Granted you won't leave it like
>>> that, you want the wireless, but at least it'd determine if the 360's
>>> OK and then you can go from there.
>>>
>>> I don't have the wireless adapter but I do have that exact AT&T
>>> 2Wire router, that 'other number' is the security code for the
>>> wireless hookup part. Since you can't get to that part of the
>>> 360's menu it hasn't come into play yet...
>>>
>>> Determine if the 360 can hook to anything, then we can all get
>>> a better grip on what the problem might be.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Paul Maples <paulmaples@sbcglobal.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Folks I am a 63 year old grandfather who is trying to raise my two
>>>> grandsons. I got laid off from my job of 35 years but went into my
>>>> small retirement account to buy my 13 year old grandson an xbox 360
>>>> Elite System.
>>>>
>>>> I recieved the xbox via mail from Wal-mart on 5/21/2008 and I and
>>>> three other people tried our best to get the wireless adaptor to work
>>>> and never got it going. One of the guys was real knowledgable with
>>>> Microsoft software and is even on their beta trial list. Hefinally
>>>> gave up and suggested we exchange the Xbox which we ultimately did.
>>>>
>>>> Based on my failure, his failure, and two other fairly good computer
>>>> people I returned the wireless adaptor and got another one and had
>>>> the same problem. I then went and exchanged the xbox itself and still
>>>> had the same problem. It appears that the xbox does not recognize the
>>>> wireless adaptor. The light never changes from red and when you go to
>>>> settings and then edit the wireless configuration lines are not
>>>> highlighted so there is no way I can choose wireless adaptor.
>>>>
>>>> I have ATT DSL 2Wire wireless system Serial # 974116015354 and there
>>>> is another number 2769699537.
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded "Windows Connect Now" and actually had the
>>>> version "Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 -Update Roll Up 2" but
>>>> when I went to try and download the "Media Center Extender Update" I
>>>> would get a message that "The update to media center was not
>>>> successful. The computer will now be restarted and restored to the
>>>> state it was in before the update. Please try the installation again
>>>> or contact your hardware manufacture for assistance if the problem
>>>> persists" I was told to "Uninstall the update to Media Center 2005
>>>> and then re-install the update from the Windows Update Website then
>>>> run the Media Center Extender Setup again" I uninstalled the Update
>>>> Roll Up 2 thinking this was what I was supposed to do and then tried
>>>> to reinstall it and cannot get it reinstalled.
>>>>
>>>> I now only have "Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005" and I am
>>>> unable todownload the "Windows XP Media Center Edition - Update Roll
>>>> Up 2" and without this I cannot download the Media Center Extender
>>>> update.
>>>>
>>>> I have a two year old Sony Vaio Desktop - with Microsoft Windows XP -
>>>> Media Center Edition - Version 2002 - Service Pack 3 - CPU 2.8 GHZ -
>>>> 1 GHZ of ram.
>>>>
>>>> Please someone help me work this out. Thanks so much for helping this
>>>> old grandfather out.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
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