Streaming To 360?

[Sombra]

Basically I've been ultimately annoyed for the last week since I can't seem to configure streaming to an Xbox 360. On Windows 7 I've tried with Windows Media Center which couldn't find the extender and Tversity which the sharing service couldn't start or the xbox wouldn't find it. I also tried UShare on Debian which the Xbox couldn't find. (I could access the sharing page which shows which directories are shared though so I'm assuming it's a router problem?)

 

The wireless card on my PC is a Ralink 2561 and the Xbox is wireless too which is all connected to a Huwaei Echolife hg521 (The router talktalk sent out. If it was up to me I'd be running all ethernet but it's not my house haha) All other specs are in my sig. So, how do I get this to work?

[Fozzy Fozborne]

I'm sorry if you've tried this, but here goes: in Windows Media Player click the stream button in the upper-left then make sure "allow remote access" and "automatically allow devices to play my media" are checked.

 

Now click stream again and click "more streaming options". Is your Xbox 360 listed on this page? Does it show allow?

 

If not, then WMP has never seen your device.

 

Ensure your computer is running on a home network rather than public/work. You can do this by clicking the wi-fi options on the right of the taskbar and ensuring a house logo is there.

 

Next, get into the control panel, network and internet, network and sharing center, and click advanced sharing settings. Ensure that all options under the home/work profile are set to on and click save if you changed anything.

 

Are you 100% sure the laptop and the Xbox are connecting to the same router? If there are multiple routers in your house, it will not work correctly if they are connected to separate ones even if they're both connected to each other.

 

Now, from the network and sharing center, click "see full map" in the upper-right. This should show you a map like this:

 

Do you see any other computers connected to your network? (Provided you have other computers in your house also connected to the router...) Does the Xbox show up there when it's on and connected to the internet? If not, then Windows itself has never seen your Xbox.

 

Next step, on your Xbox dashboard, go to my Xbox, system settings, network, wireless, test PC connection, [yes]. Now, does your PC show up at all? If not, try the option of not being found and try the troubleshooting. If this fails, then go back to My Xbox and go to Windows Media Center, choose continue, and choose setup. This should guide you through the setup.

 

If it doesn't then... I'm not sure. Is Xbox live working right? You could try updating the firmware on your router (it's a stretch...)

[Sombra]

In the network map no other PC's or other stuff shows up (Mum's laptop with XP or my 360), it doesn't show up in network map either. Only one router in the house, updated to latest FW and live is running just fine.

 

Edit: Pinged the Xbox IP address and got:

 

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

C:\Users\dave>PING 192.168.1.3

 

Pinging 192.168.1.3 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.6: Destination host unreachable.

Reply from 192.168.1.6: Destination host unreachable.

Reply from 192.168.1.6: Destination host unreachable.

Reply from 192.168.1.6: Destination host unreachable.

 

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.3:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

 

C:\Users\dave>

Edited September 10, 2011 by Blaze

[Saggy]

I don't know why, but for some reason the Xbox360 won't see media shares with the wireless connection. I was really frustrated with mine until I tried to just plug the ethernet cord in and it worked. I'm not really sure why it doesn't communicate, because other devices on the same wireless network don't have any similar problem. I think it's an issue with UPnP being split over two networks and the router not being able to handle that.

[Wolf68k]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows.../11/stream-xbox

[Sombra]

bump.

 

Found out the problem but no fix for it. Streaming doesn't work through the day but as soon as my mum switches off her netbook it works again. I'm assuming it's an IP problem?

[Wolf68k]

That's odd. Check the Xbox to see what IP address it's using then check your mom's netbook for the same thing.

If need be you can force one or both of them to use a different IP and even make it static if need be.

[Andrew]

If the router is any good, you should be able to reserve IPs on the router for specific client machines. This would save having to put a static IP configuration on every networked device attached to the router, if it turns out to be a IP conflict issue. Windows normally warns you of any IP conflict issues as soon as it loads up, might be worth leaving the xbox on, and checking on the netbook for any address conflicts.

 

Also, even though they should be in this case, that both machines are classed as being on the same subnet. I recently had an issue where using an older router as another switch resulted in a two subnet network, that made it impossible for streaming devices to detect other devices on other subnets.