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Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: swetly on January 09, 2004, 05:28:00 PM

Hi guys,

May be there is answer already but the search engine doesn't work

I read on XBOXLINK site that I can make wireless connection just if I have 'WET11' wireless ethernet bridge.
I'll get my box tommorow  B)  so my question is:
In the place I'm staying I've wireless internet and I use SMC wireless ethernet adapter(SMC 2670W) to connect my laptop to it. Can I just take another one wireless adapter and connect it to the XBOX(I can get it for free  ;) ). Will this work? My plan is to change the IP of the XBOX in this way to match the local ethernet...

So any suggestions??

This post has been edited by swetly: Jan 10 2004, 01:32 AM <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: swetly on January 10, 2004, 05:51:00 AM

Hey,

Is anyone out there who use a wireless ethernet ????
Talk to me people   <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: dfunked on January 10, 2004, 06:56:00 AM

If you get your XBox either a Wireless Ethernet Bridge or a Wireless Gaming Adapter, your XBox will then be up on your wireless network and yes, you will be able to connect after setting up the correct MAC addresses in XLink. (Config -> Advanced Options -> WET11)

Make sure you're running the 2.2.4 update.  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: swetly on January 11, 2004, 06:27:00 AM

10x

I will check this in monday and I'll let you guys know what's happen  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: Cat-7 on January 11, 2004, 11:37:00 AM

Trying to set up wireless network too. I've tried do as you say but I don't get a list of MAC addresses in the WET11 menu.

I can ping my X-box and I can FTP too. Any idea's?  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: froibaard on January 11, 2004, 12:03:00 PM

QUOTE (Cat-7 @ Jan 11 2004, 08:26 PM)

Trying to set up wireless network too. I've tried do as you say but I don't get a list of MAC addresses in the WET11 menu. I can ping my X-box and I can FTP too. Any idea's?

whats your setup?

to setup my wet11 i  plugged my xbox into the router and went to the 'search for games' screen on a game. this provided me with the xbox mac referred to as 'real mac address'

i then plugged the xbox into the wet11 and searched for games again. more macs appeared and i selected the wet11 mac which i knew from setting up the bridge.

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Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: Cat-7 on January 12, 2004, 01:03:00 AM

My set up is as follows; d-link wireless router (pc connected to router) and X-box connected via wireless with a D-link wireless bridge.

Last night I did as you said and set halo looking for a game and I then saw the MAC address of the Xbox.

In the visable MAC addresses I don't see the MAC address of the Bridge.

Managed to start a game with a friend but if I hosted a game he could see me but I couldn't see him, if he hosted the game we could both see each other but then link would fail saying that I quit.

Any Ideas?

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Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: dfunked on January 12, 2004, 01:17:00 AM

If your PC is hardwired to the router, and the XBox is on a WEB, then you don't need to set up any options in XLink.

Use the 'Clear WET11' button.  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: Cat-7 on January 12, 2004, 01:21:00 AM

Yep, PC is hard wired to router. I'll try what you said a give it ago later.

Ta  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: Cat-7 on January 12, 2004, 04:34:00 AM

Hmmm, tried that. Still having the same problem which appears to be at my end, not my friends as he managed to have a game with someone else last night.

Could to be down to firewalls etc. I have norton and have disabled that. Also added ports to firewall in the router. Still no joy.  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: froibaard on January 12, 2004, 07:24:00 AM

QUOTE (dfunked @ Jan 12 2004, 10:06 AM)

If your PC is hardwired to the router, and the XBox is on a WEB, then you don't need to set up any options in XLink. Use the 'Clear WET11' button.

personally i found that unless i setup the wet11 options xlink did not work for me  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: Cat-7 on January 12, 2004, 07:38:00 AM

:blink:  Hmmm conficting information

Anyway...neither way works so I may try a different game and see if that works

Any other idea welcome  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: froibaard on January 12, 2004, 07:57:00 AM

dfunked will know best, i am only familiar with my particular setup. when you said before you could not find your bridge mac does that mean the wet11 options were not setup right as  this would stop it from working, infact the problems you describe i had myself when i chose the wrong mac address as my real xbox address so try again and i reckon it will work

use this post and follow it exactly to setup the bridge properly

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...892&hl=wet11&s=
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Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: dfunked on January 12, 2004, 03:36:00 PM

Cat-7, have a read of

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...=46&t=154730&s=  <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: tedtedson on January 12, 2004, 06:41:00 PM

I had a similar problem. Could see games, and had set up WET11 MAC in Advanced Settings, but when I connected to a game it would immediately drop and tell me the connection was lost. This fixed it.

Go to your wet11 setup (i.e. in the browser) and turn on "Enable MAC Address cloning" (top right in my Firmware Version: 1.5.4). Hit "Apply". When the page reloads, the WET11's MAC Address will be 00:00:00:00:00:00. This is what you want.

Now start X-Link and make the X-Box look for games. You'll see the Local X-Box show up with its real MAC Address (should be 0050...). If you don't have "Enable MAC Address cloning" turned on, you'll see the MAC address of your WET11 - no good (should be, but it isn't).

It seems that X-Link disregards non-X-Box Mac Addresses when you actually connect to games. The WET11 nomination stuff in the Advanced Setting seems to have no impact on whether or not X-Link sees the X-Box. I was able to see games and connect, but it would immediately drop when I joined the game. Now all fixed.

tedtedson   <

Title: Wireless Config Question
Post by: Cat-7 on January 23, 2004, 06:38:00 AM

Job, Jobbed.

Now works. With a bit of messing around with WET11 MAC addresses I've got it working.

Thanks for all your help.

Basically had to enter the MAC address of the WEB into both the MAC address fields.

Hoorah!