Xbox, wireless network issues

[snwbrdrxtreme]

OK OK OK, After reading like a hundred post and the xbox.com connection issues pages, I decided to tackle my Xbox live. I'll start from the begining.
Im on cable broadband with 1.5 down and 128 up,
A Desktop pc wired w/ a nic card,
A laptop wireless with a D-link Dwl-g650,
A Dlink router DI-624 w/ the 2.37 firmware
Xbox w/ a wireless MS mn740 no new firmware.

I started by hooking my Xbox straight up to the cable modem to let the system update it self. Then I got my subscription to XBL. It all went pretty easy. I was really impressed. thats were it all started to go down hill.

I hooked up the mn740 to get the wireless network together. I use my xbox in my living room, so running a cat5 cable out there is NOT an option. I was able to get on XBL, but I lost the ability to get either the internet or network connection on my desktop. My laptop worked just fine. So in an attemt to see if it was the firmware on my router, I tried to change it over to the 2.28 from the 2.37's and I couldn't set up a network between the desktop and the laptop even with the xbox wireless disconnected. And even with the 2.28's, when I powered up the xbox wireless, I lost my connection on my desktop. I can't update the firmware on the wireless mn740 because I lose connection on the desktop.

So now that you are up to speed with my problem, I thought I'de ask the experts before I spend countless hours on the phone with Dlink and MS support. Do you think I have a problem with My router or am I missing some checkpoint in the configuration with the router? Do I need to get a wireless nic for my desktop since both of the wireless products work just fine on my network? Can I update the fireware on the mn740 from my laptop?

I need the ability of my laptop to see my desktop since the desktop has the big hd for storage. I have learned a lot about setting up the xbl and other tid bits about xbox and xbl on xbox forums. I hope someone either has info on this or has knowledge on how to get my problem fixed so I can go game on xbl.

Corey
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[gtghm]

Hey X welcone to the forums...

What if you tried to manually assign IP addresses...

Just a thought...

[Straight_Man]

Easiest way out is to get a wireless NIC for your desktop, as far as network connectivity. But, that is worst way as far as system security for your desktop.

Talk to D-Luink about balancing bandwidth between wired and wireless, and how to set up a subnet thta crosses media boundaries if they even know how to do that-- for your specific router, cannot walk through that with you line by line, but suspect that wireless hookin resets DHCP for desktop's IP.

IF this suspicion proves founded, you might be able to do this after hooking up a wireless device to router, ON THE DESKTOP. BUT, record your network settings first, please. To get hyour network settings on paper, do a sequence like this:

Start|Run|CMD
ipconfig /all
write down the whole nine yards worht of info.

now, you can try a release\renew command series, see if the desktop is even on a valid subnet compared to the wireless subnet (router might have switched subnets and your desktop might be locked out, or it might simply have dynamically reassigned IPs, and it is just possible the subnet is too small for three devices, but that we can handle later depending on whether this command series works or not).

first, reopen command console if you closed it (I did not say to, this is a failsafe): Start|Run|CMD

Next, do an IP release:

ipconfig /release

Next, do an IP renew:

ipconfig /renew

IF box is now online, the router is dynamically reconfiguring DHCP assignment of IPs when a wireless connect goes active on LAN, OR if this happened just once, maybe the desktop box got its lease timed out as you were connecting the wireless into wireless port and lost its lease and failsafed itself.

If the renew\release fails, I need the following to see what happened on the desktop:

IP after renewal (this should be a private LAN IP address space IP, not your ISP IP, so it would be useless to a hacker that does not already know your ISP IP).
Mask after renewal.
Is it using DHCP or WINS or trying to use both??? (there will be lines in the results from another ipconfig /all that will tell you this)
Is the desktop now a broadcast node or not???

I would write down all this stuff, that is probably some of the info D-Link's techs will need if not most of it.

John D.

[snwbrdrxtreme]

WOW! Thats alot to digest but i'll give it a whirl. I wont beable to test it all out until tuesday or wednesday, but i'll report back with what I find out. I really appreciate the help. I hate talking to the tech support dudes. I rather speak to others outside the field that has ran into similar problems. Newayz, thanks for writing the line.. Gtghm, no it's a little more than that and I did try to manually config the ip's on the router. I believe I screwed up more with that than on auto. Ageek, if you don't think that there is nothing wrong with my router then I'll bust away on what you wrote..

Corey
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