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Originally Posted by MadGamer
Yep I see the problem, your router is assigning whats called an Automatic Private Address, which is the 169.xxx.xxx.xx, when it should be assigning a 192.xxx.xxx.xx address. Either shut everything down, this includes computers, games consoles etc, power off the modem and router. Wait 30 seconds the power the modem on first, wait for the lights to settle, then the router, and wait for that to settle, then try powering on the xbox before any PC's just to see if you get a connection. If you do, great, if you dont, try setting the xbox to use a static IP address.
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Thanks for the reply. Tried rebooting everything and switching the console on first but it still wouldn't connect to the Internet. When I went into the Network Management screen it was showing the IP address as 169.254.125.14 with no default gateway.
When assigning a static IP address do I just type an IP address i.e if the router was 192.168.0.1 I could assign the XBox 192.168.0.100, the Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0? What would the default gateway be? The IP address of the router I.E 192.168.0.1?
Would I leave the DNS Settings on Automatic? And finally would do I need to log into the router and assign or set the IP address? For exaple would I need to log into the DLink firmware and define that 192.168.0.100 has been assigned to the XBox?
Thanks
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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Factually incorrect. The router has nothing to do with it. The NIC on the Xbox cannot obtain a DHCP address and after a timeout period it will assign itself the automatic IP address of 169.x.x.x. The router does not assign it.
Saying that - the OP has a network issue.
Can you plug the xbox direct into the router - bypass anything else and does it then work?
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Yeah the console seems to be fine when connected directly to the Router.
Edit - Just gave it another go and it's automatically assigned a proper IP address this time (192.168.0.100, 255.255.255.0 and 192.168.0.1). When I try to connect to Xbox Live I get an error message. But when I do a network test on the Xbox to try and connect to another PC on the network it completes successfully and listed the other 2 computers.
Not sure if the Xbox responds to Ping requests, but when I tried pinging the IP address of the Xbox I get:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Luke>PING 192.168.0.100
Pinging 192.168.0.100 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.100:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),