PocketMatrix

Unfortunately I don't have a chance to try it right now, cos I'm at work.

I don't want to waste any more of your time so I'll give it a go tonight and let you know what happens.

Thanks for you help, It's really appreciated.

The thing that initiates the "dial up" is a cable modem, ie it's always on so doesn't really need to dial up:

cable wall socket
|
cable modem
| (cat5e)
network switch -(cat5e)- PC
| (cat6)
xbox

I'm guessing 192.168.*" is some sort of special IP address? It looks similar to the static address I've been told to use.

Programming I'm fine with, networking is a little bit Greek to me.

Thanks again,

Lee

[edit was to correct misaligned diagram]

Ooooops. I just realised I posted this to the wrong forum.

Could any of the mods move this to the anything discussion pleeeeease?

a) Thanks
b) $59
c) I believe the xbox is still running the stripped down Win2k kernel. On top of that, it runs something called a 'dashboard' which is where you do basic memory card management, cd player etc. This is one of the things you can change when you install a new bios. I think the xbox is based around a celeron 700, so plenty fast enough for mp3s, or even as a mp3/divx player. There's lots of very interesting things being done with it. Linux, Windows Media player, PC ports, plenty of emulators.
Being able to copy games to the harddrive is very handy, no more swapping disks, and things load quicker too.

Hope that helps.

Lee

Oops that was me again ^

Ref,

I tried forcing FlashFXP to bypass proxy for local addresses and it still connected slowly.

I've noticed the first 2 numbers of the IP address for the xbox and PC are the same, and the last 2 are very different.

The subnet mask for my PC is 255.255.254.0, and I cannot change this without making my PC IP address static.

Any more help would be appreciate.

Thanks,

Lee

With both the XBox and PC on dynamic IPs, you're going to have problems, especially with Windows 98.

The cable modem does "dial-up", sort of. Every so often your DHCP lease will expire and it'll request a new IP (or a lease renewal) for you.

What I'd do if I were you, would be to make a gateway between the cable modem and your network; that way your sub-net can have static IPs and you can route traffic from anything through the gateway.

Probably the easiest thing for you would be to add an extra network card to your PC (a cheap 10MBit one should do fine for the cable-modem side).

Then do:

cable wall socket
|
cable modem
| (cat5e)
PC (10MBit i/face with dynamic IP from modem)

PC (other NIC with static 192.168.1.1 (example) IP)
|
Hub/switch/whatever
| (cat6)
xbox (192.168.1.2 IP with gateway set to 192.168.1.1)

Then all you have to do is get traffic to route between the two interfaces on the PC (no idea if '98 can or does that), I use Linux on my gateway (pretty sure 2000/XP will do it too).

Cheers,

Ref.