[XCSSA] Using Xbox Live without broadband

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Wednesday 19 March 2008 10:52:37 pm X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio 
wrote:
[...]
> I hooked up the Xbox 360 to my Mac Mini and got the sharing part done.
> However, the Xbox 360 and my Mac can't seem to work together. When testing
> the connection between the Xbox 360 and the Mac it fails at the IP Address.

You need to check for link light/status first.

> The problem is that the Xbox 360 is "unable to negotiate a lease with the
> DHCP server". What kind of tweaks need to be done to either my Xbox 360
> and/or the Mac to solve this problem?

Do they each have link lights?  If not (and cancel out the chance that you're 
not using a crossover cable), then I might suggest getting a cheap little $15 
switch that has auto-xover negotiating for 10/100.... see if that helps 
(either that or just make your own crossover).


> (@ Tweeks: I don't know what happened the first time I tried to send this
> post. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

No worries.. it looks like you either changed email addresses (and as such 
were not a member and could not post) or excessive mailbox bounces caused 
your subscription to be removed from the system.  Both are common user side 
problems I've seen a lot.

Tweeks