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- Nov 29, 2004
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- T3h Intr@tub3z!
this isn't my 360, but a family member's. Please bear with me as I sit here by the fire of my PC's warmth and tell you a little story of excitement and international intrigue.... well.... at least the intrigue.... less the international....
Anyway, I get a call yesterday from my aunt and uncle. Their son (my cousin - who is in i think 5th grade) kept up his end of a deal with his parents (something involving his schoolwork) and his parents got him a 3 month XBox Live Gold card. They didn't know how to set it up, so called me up. I went to their house (as I haven't set up Live in over a year and couldn't remember how) so I could sit there and fiddle with it.
To shorten a story, I will say that the XBox Live Gold setup went smoothly.
What didn't go smoothly: The network connection.
Last Christmas, I helped my cousin setup the wifi connection on his 360 so he could get game updates and such despite not having Gold. Well, fast forward a year. The 360 still has the proper settings, but it only randomly connects, and only for a few seconds at a time.
I was puzzled, but we did some basic troubleshooting. Reset the Router. Reset all the settings on the 360. Plugged the Wifi Dongle into a different USB port on the 360. Nothing was working. Moved the 360 away from all sources of possible interference. Disconnected the Cordless phones/turned them off.
Still nothing. Just to make sure he was getting a signal (about 35 feet away from the AP), I had my cousin get his little EEE Netbook and bring it to his room. Turned it on. Wifi worked fine on it, and then mysteriously, the 360 went from 0/4 to 3/4 bars of wifi strength and connected fine.
Thinking it was a glitch that just fixed itself, I had my cousin turn off his netbook. The moment it went off, the wifi signal to the 360 died again. I was confused, but we went through all prior troubleshooting steps. He turned his netbook on again to make sure that there WAS a wifi signal in the room, and as soon as it powered on, the 360 got wifi signal again, long before XP even loaded drivers on that little EEE.
So, I had him leave the netbook on, and we managed to get the 360 to cycle through 2 updates and then got his Live Gold access turned on.
So here is the thing i'm curious about. The netbook is NOT set up as a repeater. It is just set up for standard internet access. It gets a full 5/5 bars at 35-40 feet away while the 360 doesn't (unless the netbook is on and it goes to 3/4 instead of 0/4).
WHY would this happen this way? It doesn't make sense to me.
Anyway, I get a call yesterday from my aunt and uncle. Their son (my cousin - who is in i think 5th grade) kept up his end of a deal with his parents (something involving his schoolwork) and his parents got him a 3 month XBox Live Gold card. They didn't know how to set it up, so called me up. I went to their house (as I haven't set up Live in over a year and couldn't remember how) so I could sit there and fiddle with it.
To shorten a story, I will say that the XBox Live Gold setup went smoothly.
What didn't go smoothly: The network connection.
Last Christmas, I helped my cousin setup the wifi connection on his 360 so he could get game updates and such despite not having Gold. Well, fast forward a year. The 360 still has the proper settings, but it only randomly connects, and only for a few seconds at a time.
I was puzzled, but we did some basic troubleshooting. Reset the Router. Reset all the settings on the 360. Plugged the Wifi Dongle into a different USB port on the 360. Nothing was working. Moved the 360 away from all sources of possible interference. Disconnected the Cordless phones/turned them off.
Still nothing. Just to make sure he was getting a signal (about 35 feet away from the AP), I had my cousin get his little EEE Netbook and bring it to his room. Turned it on. Wifi worked fine on it, and then mysteriously, the 360 went from 0/4 to 3/4 bars of wifi strength and connected fine.
Thinking it was a glitch that just fixed itself, I had my cousin turn off his netbook. The moment it went off, the wifi signal to the 360 died again. I was confused, but we went through all prior troubleshooting steps. He turned his netbook on again to make sure that there WAS a wifi signal in the room, and as soon as it powered on, the 360 got wifi signal again, long before XP even loaded drivers on that little EEE.
So, I had him leave the netbook on, and we managed to get the 360 to cycle through 2 updates and then got his Live Gold access turned on.
So here is the thing i'm curious about. The netbook is NOT set up as a repeater. It is just set up for standard internet access. It gets a full 5/5 bars at 35-40 feet away while the 360 doesn't (unless the netbook is on and it goes to 3/4 instead of 0/4).
WHY would this happen this way? It doesn't make sense to me.
