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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
Hi, 2 years ago bought a laptop with vista Home premium, and xbox360 was automatically recognized. I set up nothing and it worked fine, and wirelessly. That laptop died and I got a new one, this time I had to set everything up, for XP Media Center/xbox 360 and got it to work, but it will only work if my laptop is wired, it won't work wirelesly. I still have Home Premium, I think the new laptop is still Wireless G, so how can I get Windows Media Center to work on the xbox 360 without having the laptop wired to the router? The xbox360 is wired, not wireless, thanks for any help! -- oldguy99 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
oldguy99;1203424 Wrote: Hi, 2 years ago bought a laptop with vista Home premium, and xbox360 was automatically recognized. I set up nothing and it worked fine, and wirelessly. That laptop died and I got a new one, this time I had to set everything up, for XP Media Center/xbox 360 and got it to work, but it will only work if my laptop is wired, it won't work wirelesly. I still have Home Premium, I think the new laptop is still Wireless G, so how can I get Windows Media Center to work on the xbox 360 without having the laptop wired to the router? The xbox360 is wired, not wireless, thanks for any help! Yes oldguy, I have the same problem as well. My laptop running XP SP3 died. I have been streaming videos, music, and pictures, without the use of Media Center for a couple of years now. I never had to do any port forwarding, DMZ, etc. to get my XP laptop (that I bought at Wal-Mart in 2004!) to connect to my 360. I replaced my old laptop with A Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5965 with AMD Atlon Dual Core QL-65 3GB Ram, and have Windows Firewall off and Comodo Internet Suite installed. I have forwarded all the recommended ports through both my router WRTG2 and Comodo firewall. I have disabled all of my firewall and A/V and still can't connect. Quite simply, if I plug the computer into the router, everything works just fine. Media player 11, sharing to the 360 is set. ICS is off. As soon as I unplug...absolutely zero connection. The PC can clearly see the XBOX 360 in both MP 11 sharing section and in Network Magic Network Map. I have full xbox live connectivity, and full internet connectivity on my new laptop. But the 360 just flat out refuses to connect to Windows Vista Home Premium via a wireless connection. Its as if Microsoft deliberately coded Windows Vista Home Premium to not connect wirelessly...even though it is a laptop. What makes things even more frustrating is that my fiancees old XP SP3 laptop is recognized by the 360 as soon as it is fired up. And I am using Comodo Internet Suite on her laptop, using the same router, with absolutely ZERO modifications to the firewall a/v settings. It is sad to say, but I feel as if Vista has completely let me down. It is useless to me if it cannot do what its XP predecessor did better. I don't even care about Media Center. I just want to stream the music, videos, and pictures to my 360 like I used too. If anyone knows how to solve this problem please let me know. Does anyone know if Windows 7 has this same issue as well? Thank You, Seriously Frustrated Gamer of 35 Years and Windows user since 3.11 -- Ancient Gamer Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
Hey guys, I hope you are still here. I have windows 7 ultimate and ....(drum roll) IT DOES NOT CONNECT!!! With a cable it is almost seamless. With the 79 euro wifi connector from microsoft, it does nothing but sit there and laugh at me. Don't know what to do. I have been working on this for 3 days, about 16 hours. I am so stumped. I hope someone can help -- daveealex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daveealex's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171022.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
Sorry, we left a while ago.
-- -- "daveealex" wrote in message ... Hey guys, I hope you are still here. I have windows 7 ultimate and ....(drum roll) IT DOES NOT CONNECT!!! With a cable it is almost seamless. With the 79 euro wifi connector from microsoft, it does nothing but sit there and laugh at me. Don't know what to do. I have been working on this for 3 days, about 16 hours. I am so stumped. I hope someone can help -- daveealex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daveealex's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171022.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
david b. some of us are actually serious about this. For those who care... i have places a call to Microsoft and lets all hold our breaths...the guy who takes care of these problems will be back tomorrow. All I said was: I have an xbox360 and windows 7 64 bit. If he calls I will be very surprised. When he does I will let you all what happens. If we get it worked out, I will post what I have found out. daveealex -- daveealex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daveealex's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171022.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
Yes some of us are, and those that are access Microsoft's news groups via
Microsoft's NNTP server, not via some clunky web forum (like tech arena and egghead cafe) that leaches off of Microsoft's groups. -- -- "daveealex" wrote in message ... david b. some of us are actually serious about this. For those who care... i have places a call to Microsoft and lets all hold our breaths...the guy who takes care of these problems will be back tomorrow. All I said was: I have an xbox360 and windows 7 64 bit. If he calls I will be very surprised. When he does I will let you all what happens. If we get it worked out, I will post what I have found out. daveealex -- daveealex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daveealex's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171022.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
After about an hour an 20 mins withe the xbox tech, we have resolved nothing. He will call me back in about a week and see if there is anything new. I will keep you posted if i get this working. -- daveealex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daveealex's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171022.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
I'll be on the edge of my seat... -- -- "daveealex" wrote in message ... After about an hour an 20 mins withe the xbox tech, we have resolved nothing. He will call me back in about a week and see if there is anything new. I will keep you posted if i get this working. -- daveealex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daveealex's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/171022.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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xbox 360 windows media center won't connect wirelessly
Was there ever a solution to the above problem? I'm in a similiar situation. I'm on Windows 7 Home premium... wired to the gateway/router. xbox360 on wireless g to the gateway/router. gateway/router is 2wire via ATT Uverse. Per other help sites, I've config. MacAfee and opened all ports, even disabled all firewalls and still no connection. error on the PC still says 'extender not found'. not sure what I'm doing wrong... I'm skeptical that my gateway/router is blocking something... but it shows my home network as fully trusted between machines (pc and xbox360). Any help is appreciated. -- beercity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ beercity's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/201725.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1145716.htm http://forums.techarena.in |